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<p align="center"><strong>History Of The Decline And Fall Of The
Roman Empire</strong></p>

<p>Edward Gibbon, Esq.</p>

<p>With notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman</p>

<p>Vol. 6</p>

<p>1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised)</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LIX: The Crusades.</strong> <strong><em>Part
I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Preservation Of The Greek Empire. -- Numbers, Passage, And
Event, Of The Second And Third Crusades. -- St. Bernard. -- Reign
Of Saladin In Egypt And Syria. -- His Conquest Of Jerusalem. --
Naval Crusades. -- Richard The First Of England. -- Pope Innocent
The Third; And The Fourth And Fifth Crusades. -- The Emperor
Frederic The Second. -- Louis The Ninth Of France; And The Two
Last Crusades. -- Expulsion Of The Latins Or Franks By The
Mamelukes.</p>

<p>In a style less grave than that of history, I should perhaps
compare the emperor Alexius ^1 to the jackal, who is said to
follow the steps, and to devour the leavings, of the lion.
Whatever had been his fears and toils in the passage of the first
crusade, they were amply recompensed by the subsequent benefits
which he derived from the exploits of the Franks. His dexterity
and vigilance secured their first conquest of Nice; and from this
threatening station the Turks were compelled to evacuate the
neighborhood of Constantinople. While the crusaders, with blind
valor, advanced into the midland countries of Asia, the crafty
Greek improved the favorable occasion when the emirs of the
sea-coast were recalled to the standard of the sultan. The Turks
were driven from the Isles of Rhodes and Chios: the cities of
Ephesus and Smyrna, of Sardes, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, were
restored to the empire, which Alexius enlarged from the
Hellespont to the banks of the M&aelig;ander, and the rocky
shores of Pamphylia. The churches resumed their splendor: the
towns were rebuilt and fortified; and the desert country was
peopled with colonies of Christians, who were gently removed from
the more distant and dangerous frontier. In these paternal cares,
we may forgive Alexius, if he forgot the deliverance of the holy
sepulchre; but, by the Latins, he was stigmatized with the foul
reproach of treason and desertion. They had sworn fidelity and
obedience to his throne; but <strong><em>he</em></strong> had
promised to assist their enterprise in person, or, at least, with
his troops and treasures: his base retreat dissolved their
obligations; and the sword, which had been the instrument of
their victory, was the pledge and title of their just
independence. It does not appear that the emperor attempted to
revive his obsolete claims over the kingdom of Jerusalem; ^2 but
the borders of Cilicia and Syria were more recent in his
possession, and more accessible to his arms. The great army of
the crusaders was annihilated or dispersed; the principality of
Antioch was left without a head, by the surprise and captivity of
Bohemond; his ransom had oppressed him with a heavy debt; and his
Norman followers were insufficient to repel the hostilities of
the Greeks and Turks. In this distress, Bohemond embraced a
magnanimous resolution, of leaving the defence of Antioch to his
kinsman, the faithful Tancred; of arming the West against the
Byzantine empire; and of executing the design which he inherited
from the lessons and example of his father Guiscard. His
embarkation was clandestine: and, if we may credit a tale of the
princess Anne, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a
coffin. ^3 But his reception in France was dignified by the
public applause, and his marriage with the king's daughter: his
return was glorious, since the bravest spirits of the age
enlisted under his veteran command; and he repassed the Adriatic
at the head of five thousand horse and forty thousand foot,
assembled from the most remote climates of Europe. ^4 The
strength of Durazzo, and prudence of Alexius, the progress of
famine and approach of winter, eluded his ambitious hopes; and
the venal confederates were seduced from his standard. A treaty
of peace ^5 suspended the fears of the Greeks; and they were
finally delivered by the death of an adversary, whom neither
oaths could bind, nor dangers could appal, nor prosperity could
satiate. His children succeeded to the principality of Antioch;
but the boundaries were strictly defined, the homage was clearly
stipulated, and the cities of Tarsus and Malmistra were restored
to the Byzantine emperors. Of the coast of Anatolia, they
possessed the entire circuit from Trebizond to the Syrian gates.
The Seljukian dynasty of Roum ^6 was separated on all sides from
the sea and their Mussulman brethren; the power of the sultan was
shaken by the victories and even the defeats of the Franks; and
after the loss of Nice, they removed their throne to Cogni or
Iconium, an obscure and in land town above three hundred miles
from Constantinople. ^7 Instead of trembling for their capital,
the Comnenian princes waged an offensive war against the Turks,
and the first crusade prevented the fall of the declining
empire.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: Anna Comnena relates her father's conquests in
Asia Minor Alexiad, l. xi. p. 321--325, l. xiv. p. 419; his
Cilician war against Tancred and Bohemond, p. 328--324; the war
of Epirus, with tedious prolixity, l. xii. xiii. p. 345--406; the
death of Bohemond, l. xiv. p. 419.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: The kings of Jerusalem submitted, however, to a
nominal dependence, and in the dates of their inscriptions, (one
is still legible in the church of Bethlem,) they respectfully
placed before their own the name of the reigning emperor,
(Ducange, Dissertations sur Joinville xxvii. p. 319.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Anna Comnena adds, that, to complete the
imitation, he was shut up with a dead cock; and condescends to
wonder how the Barbarian could endure the confinement and
putrefaction. This absurd tale is unknown to the Latins. *</p>

<p>Note: * The Greek writers, in general, Zonaras, p. 2, 303, and
Glycas, p. 334 agree in this story with the princess Anne, except
in the absurd addition of the dead cock. Ducange has already
quoted some instances where a similar stratagem had been adopted
by <strong><em>Norman</em></strong> princes. On this authority
Wilken inclines to believe the fact. Appendix to vol. ii. p. 14.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: 'Apo QulhV in the Byzantine geography, must mean
England; yet we are more credibly informed, that our Henry I.
would not suffer him to levy any troops in his kingdom, (Ducange,
Not. ad Alexiad. p. 41.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: The copy of the treaty (Alexiad. l. xiii. p.
406--416) is an original and curious piece, which would require,
and might afford, a good map of the principality of Antioch.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: See, in the learned work of M. De Guignes, (tom.
ii. part ii.,) the history of the Seljukians of Iconium, Aleppo,
and Damascus, as far as it may be collected from the Greeks,
Latins, and Arabians. The last are ignorant or regardless of the
affairs of <strong><em>Roum</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: Iconium is mentioned as a station by Xenophon,
and by Strabo, with an ambiguous title of KwmopoliV, (Cellarius,
tom. ii. p. 121.) Yet St. Paul found in that place a multitude
(plhqoV) of Jews and Gentiles. under the corrupt name of
<strong><em>Kunijah</em></strong>, it is described as a great
city, with a river and garden, three leagues from the mountains,
and decorated (I know not why) with Plato's tomb, (Abulfeda,
tabul. xvii. p. 303 vers. Reiske; and the Index Geographicus of
Schultens from Ibn Said.)]</p>

<p>In the twelfth century, three great emigrations marched by
land from the West for the relief of Palestine. The soldiers and
pilgrims of Lombardy, France, and Germany were excited by the
example and success of the first crusade. ^8 Forty-eight years
after the deliverance of the holy sepulchre, the emperor, and the
French king, Conrad the Third and Louis the Seventh, undertook
the second crusade to support the falling fortunes of the Latins.
^9 A grand division of the third crusade was led by the emperor
Frederic Barbarossa, ^10 who sympathized with his brothers of
France and England in the common loss of Jerusalem. These three
expeditions may be compared in their resemblance of the greatness
of numbers, their passage through the Greek empire, and the
nature and event of their Turkish warfare, and a brief parallel
may save the repetition of a tedious narrative. However splendid
it may seem, a regular story of the crusades would exhibit the
perpetual return of the same causes and effects; and the frequent
attempts for the defence or recovery of the Holy Land would
appear so many faint and unsuccessful copies of the original.</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: For this supplement to the first crusade, see
Anna Comnena, Alexias, l. xi. p. 331, &amp;c., and the viiith
book of Albert Aquensis.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: For the second crusade, of Conrad III. and Louis
VII., see William of Tyre, (l. xvi. c. 18--19,) Otho of
Frisingen, (l. i. c. 34--45 59, 60,) Matthew Paris, (Hist. Major.
p. 68,) Struvius, (Corpus Hist Germanic&aelig;, p. 372, 373,)
Scriptores Rerum Francicarum &agrave; Duchesne tom. iv.: Nicetas,
in Vit. Manuel, l. i. c. 4, 5, 6, p. 41--48, Cinnamus l. ii. p.
41--49.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: For the third crusade, of Frederic Barbarossa,
see Nicetas in Isaac Angel. l. ii. c. 3--8, p. 257--266. Struv.
(Corpus. Hist. Germ. p. 414,) and two historians, who probably
were spectators, Tagino, (in Scriptor. Freher. tom. i. p.
406--416, edit Struv.,) and the Anonymus de Expeditione
Asiatic&acirc; Fred. I. (in Canisii Antiq. Lection. tom. iii. p.
ii. p. 498--526, edit. Basnage.)]</p>

<p>I. Of the swarms that so closely trod in the footsteps of the
first pilgrims, the chiefs were equal in rank, though unequal in
fame and merit, to Godfrey of Bouillon and his
fellow-adventurers. At their head were displayed the banners of
the dukes of Burgundy, Bavaria, and Aquitain; the first a
descendant of Hugh Capet, the second, a father of the Brunswick
line: the archbishop of Milan, a temporal prince, transported,
for the benefit of the Turks, the treasures and ornaments of his
church and palace; and the veteran crusaders, Hugh the Great and
Stephen of Chartres, returned to consummate their unfinished vow.
The huge and disorderly bodies of their followers moved forward
in two columns; and if the first consisted of two hundred and
sixty thousand persons, the second might possibly amount to sixty
thousand horse and one hundred thousand foot. ^11 ^* The armies
of the second crusade might have claimed the conquest of Asia;
the nobles of France and Germany were animated by the presence of
their sovereigns; and both the rank and personal character of
Conrad and Louis gave a dignity to their cause, and a discipline
to their force, which might be vainly expected from the feudatory
chiefs. The cavalry of the emperor, and that of the king, was
each composed of seventy thousand knights, and their immediate
attendants in the field; ^12 and if the light-armed troops, the
peasant infantry, the women and children, the priests and monks,
be rigorously excluded, the full account will scarcely be
satisfied with four hundred thousand souls. The West, from Rome
to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and
Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the
Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the
Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted
from the endless and formidable computation. ^13 In the third
crusade, as the French and English preferred the navigation of
the Mediterranean, the host of Frederic Barbarossa was less
numerous. Fifteen thousand knights, and as many squires, were the
flower of the German chivalry: sixty thousand horse, and one
hundred thousand foot, were mustered by the emperor in the plains
of Hungary; and after such repetitions, we shall no longer be
startled at the six hundred thousand pilgrims, which credulity
has ascribed to this last emigration. ^14 Such extravagant
reckonings prove only the astonishment of contemporaries; but
their astonishment most strongly bears testimony to the existence
of an enormous, though indefinite, multitude. The Greeks might
applaud their superior knowledge of the arts and stratagems of
war, but they confessed the strength and courage of the French
cavalry, and the infantry of the Germans; ^15 and the strangers
are described as an iron race, of gigantic stature, who darted
fire from their eyes, and spilt blood like water on the ground.
Under the banners of Conrad, a troop of females rode in the
attitude and armor of men; and the chief of these Amazons, from
her gilt spurs and buskins, obtained the epithet of the
Golden-footed Dame.</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Anne, who states these later swarms at 40,000
horse and 100,000 foot, calls them Normans, and places at their
head two brothers of Flanders. The Greeks were strangely ignorant
of the names, families, and possessions of the Latin
princes.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: It was this army of pilgrims, the first body of
which was headed by the archbishop of Milan and Count Albert of
Blandras, which set forth on the wild, yet, with a more
disciplined army, not impolitic, enterprise of striking at the
heart of the Mahometan power, by attacking the sultan in Bagdad.
For their adventures and fate, see Wilken, vol. ii. p. 120,
&amp;c., Michaud, book iv. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: William of Tyre, and Matthew Paris, reckon
70,000 loricati in each of the armies.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The imperfect enumeration is mentioned by
Cinnamus, (ennenhkonta muriadeV,) and confirmed by Odo de Diogilo
apud Ducange ad Cinnamum, with the more precise sum of 900,556.
Why must therefore the version and comment suppose the modest and
insufficient reckoning of 90,000? Does not Godfrey of Viterbo
(Pantheon, p. xix. in Muratori, tom. vii. p. 462) exclaim?</p>

<p>---- Numerum si poscere qu&aelig;ras,</p>

<p>Millia millena militis agmen erat.</p>

<p>1]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: This extravagant account is given by Albert of
Stade, (apud Struvium, p. 414;) my calculation is borrowed from
Godfrey of Viterbo, Arnold of Lubeck, apud eundem, and Bernard
Thesaur. (c. 169, p. 804.) The original writers are silent. The
Mahometans gave him 200,000, or 260,000, men, (Bohadin, in Vit.
Saladin, p. 110.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: I must observe, that, in the second and third
crusades, the subjects of Conrad and Frederic are styled by the
Greeks and Orientals <strong><em>Alamanni</em></strong>. The
Lechi and Tzechi of Cinnamus are the Poles and Bohemians; and it
is for the French that he reserves the ancient appellation of
Germans. He likewise names the Brittioi, or Britannoi. *</p>

<p>Note: * He names both -- Brittioi te kai Britanoi. -- M.]</p>

<p>II. The number and character of the strangers was an object of
terror to the effeminate Greeks, and the sentiment of fear is
nearly allied to that of hatred. This aversion was suspended or
softened by the apprehension of the Turkish power; and the
invectives of the Latins will not bias our more candid belief,
that the emperor Alexius dissembled their insolence, eluded their
hostilities, counselled their rashness, and opened to their ardor
the road of pilgrimage and conquest. But when the Turks had been
driven from Nice and the sea-coast, when the Byzantine princes no
longer dreaded the distant sultans of Cogni, they felt with purer
indignation the free and frequent passage of the western
Barbarians, who violated the majesty, and endangered the safety,
of the empire. The second and third crusades were undertaken
under the reign of Manuel Comnenus and Isaac Angelus. Of the
former, the passions were always impetuous, and often malevolent;
and the natural union of a cowardly and a mischievous temper was
exemplified in the latter, who, without merit or mercy, could
punish a tyrant, and occupy his throne. It was secretly, and
perhaps tacitly, resolved by the prince and people to destroy, or
at least to discourage, the pilgrims, by every species of injury
and oppression; and their want of prudence and discipline
continually afforded the pretence or the opportunity. The Western
monarchs had stipulated a safe passage and fair market in the
country of their Christian brethren; the treaty had been ratified
by oaths and hostages; and the poorest soldier of Frederic's army
was furnished with three marks of silver to defray his expenses
on the road. But every engagement was violated by treachery and
injustice; and the complaints of the Latins are attested by the
honest confession of a Greek historian, who has dared to prefer
truth to his country. ^16 Instead of a hospitable reception, the
gates of the cities, both in Europe and Asia, were closely barred
against the crusaders; and the scanty pittance of food was let
down in baskets from the walls. Experience or foresight might
excuse this timid jealousy; but the common duties of humanity
prohibited the mixture of chalk, or other poisonous ingredients,
in the bread; and should Manuel be acquitted of any foul
connivance, he is guilty of coining base money for the purpose of
trading with the pilgrims. In every step of their march they were
stopped or misled: the governors had private orders to fortify
the passes and break down the bridges against them: the
stragglers were pillaged and murdered: the soldiers and horses
were pierced in the woods by arrows from an invisible hand; the
sick were burnt in their beds; and the dead bodies were hung on
gibbets along the highways. These injuries exasperated the
champions of the cross, who were not endowed with evangelical
patience; and the Byzantine princes, who had provoked the unequal
conflict, promoted the embarkation and march of these formidable
guests. On the verge of the Turkish frontier Barbarossa spared
the guilty Philadelphia, ^17 rewarded the hospitable Laodicea,
and deplored the hard necessity that had stained his sword with
any drops of Christian blood. In their intercourse with the
monarchs of Germany and France, the pride of the Greeks was
exposed to an anxious trial. They might boast that on the first
interview the seat of Louis was a low stool, beside the throne of
Manuel; ^18 but no sooner had the French king transported his
army beyond the Bosphorus, than he refused the offer of a second
conference, unless his brother would meet him on equal terms,
either on the sea or land. With Conrad and Frederic, the
ceremonial was still nicer and more difficult: like the
successors of Constantine, they styled themselves emperors of the
Romans; ^19 and firmly maintained the purity of their title and
dignity. The first of these representatives of Charlemagne would
only converse with Manuel on horseback in the open field; the
second, by passing the Hellespont rather than the Bosphorus,
declined the view of Constantinople and its sovereign. An
emperor, who had been crowned at Rome, was reduced in the Greek
epistles to the humble appellation of
<strong><em>Rex</em></strong>, or prince, of the Alemanni; and
the vain and feeble Angelus affected to be ignorant of the name
of one of the greatest men and monarchs of the age. While they
viewed with hatred and suspicion the Latin pilgrims the Greek
emperors maintained a strict, though secret, alliance with the
Turks and Saracens. Isaac Angelus complained, that by his
friendship for the great Saladin he had incurred the enmity of
the Franks; and a mosque was founded at Constantinople for the
public exercise of the religion of Mahomet. ^20</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: Nicetas was a child at the second crusade, but
in the third he commanded against the Franks the important post
of Philippopolis. Cinnamus is infected with national prejudice
and pride.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: The conduct of the Philadelphians is blamed by
Nicetas, while the anonymous German accuses the rudeness of his
countrymen, (culp&acirc; nostr&acirc;.) History would be
pleasant, if we were embarrassed only by
<strong><em>such</em></strong> contradictions. It is likewise
from Nicetas, that we learn the pious and humane sorrow of
Frederic.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Cqamalh edra, which Cinnamus translates into
Latin by the word Sellion. Ducange works very hard to save his
king and country from such ignominy, (sur Joinville, dissertat.
xxvii. p. 317--320.) Louis afterwards insisted on a meeting in
mari ex &aelig;quo, not ex equo, according to the laughable
readings of some MSS.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: Ego Romanorum imperator sum, ille Romaniorum,
(Anonym Canis. p. 512.) The public and historical style of the
Greeks was Rhx . . . <strong><em>princeps</em></strong>. Yet
Cinnamus owns, that 'Imperatwr is synonymous to BasileuV.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: In the Epistles of Innocent III., (xiii. p.
184,) and the History of Bohadin, (p. 129, 130,) see the views of
a pope and a cadhi on this
<strong><em>singular</em></strong>toleration.]</p>

<p>III. The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroyed
in Anatolia by famine, pestilence, and the Turkish arrows; and
the princes only escaped with some squadrons of horse to
accomplish their lamentable pilgrimage. A just opinion may be
formed of their knowledge and humanity; of their knowledge, from
the design of subduing Persia and Chorasan in their way to
Jerusalem; ^* of their humanity, from the massacre of the
Christian people, a friendly city, who came out to meet them with
palms and crosses in their hands. The arms of Conrad and Louis
were less cruel and imprudent; but the event of the second
crusade was still more ruinous to Christendom; and the Greek
Manuel is accused by his own subjects of giving seasonable
intelligence to the sultan, and treacherous guides to the Latin
princes. Instead of crushing the common foe, by a double attack
at the same time but on different sides, the Germans were urged
by emulation, and the French were retarded by jealousy. Louis had
scarcely passed the Bosphorus when he was met by the returning
emperor, who had lost the greater part of his army in glorious,
but unsuccessful, actions on the banks of the M&aelig;ander. The
contrast of the pomp of his rival hastened the retreat of Conrad:
^! the desertion of his independent vassals reduced him to his
hereditary troops; and he borrowed some Greek vessels to execute
by sea the pilgrimage of Palestine. Without studying the lessons
of experience, or the nature of the war, the king of France
advanced through the same country to a similar fate. The
vanguard, which bore the royal banner and the oriflamme of St.
Denys, ^21 had doubled their march with rash and inconsiderate
speed; and the rear, which the king commanded in person, no
longer found their companions in the evening camp. In darkness
and disorder, they were encompassed, assaulted, and overwhelmed,
by the innumerable host of Turks, who, in the art of war, were
superior to the Christians of the twelfth century. ^* Louis, who
climbed a tree in the general discomfiture, was saved by his own
valor and the ignorance of his adversaries; and with the dawn of
day he escaped alive, but almost alone, to the camp of the
vanguard. But instead of pursuing his expedition by land, he was
rejoiced to shelter the relics of his army in the friendly
seaport of Satalia. From thence he embarked for Antioch; but so
penurious was the supply of Greek vessels, that they could only
afford room for his knights and nobles; and the plebeian crowd of
infantry was left to perish at the foot of the Pamphylian hills.
The emperor and the king embraced and wept at Jerusalem; their
martial trains, the remnant of mighty armies, were joined to the
Christian powers of Syria, and a fruitless siege of Damascus was
the final effort of the second crusade. Conrad and Louis embarked
for Europe with the personal fame of piety and courage; but the
Orientals had braved these potent monarchs of the Franks, with
whose names and military forces they had been so often
threatened. ^22 Perhaps they had still more to fear from the
veteran genius of Frederic the First, who in his youth had served
in Asia under his uncle Conrad. Forty campaigns in Germany and
Italy had taught Barbarossa to command; and his soldiers, even
the princes of the empire, were accustomed under his reign to
obey. As soon as he lost sight of Philadelphia and Laodicea, the
last cities of the Greek frontier, he plunged into the salt and
barren desert, a land (says the historian) of horror and
tribulation. ^23 During twenty days, every step of his fainting
and sickly march was besieged by the innumerable hordes of
Turkmans, ^24 whose numbers and fury seemed after each defeat to
multiply and inflame. The emperor continued to struggle and to
suffer; and such was the measure of his calamities, that when he
reached the gates of Iconium, no more than one thousand knights
were able to serve on horseback. By a sudden and resolute assault
he defeated the guards, and stormed the capital of the sultan,
^25 who humbly sued for pardon and peace. The road was now open,
and Frederic advanced in a career of triumph, till he was
unfortunately drowned in a petty torrent of Cilicia. ^26 The
remainder of his Germans was consumed by sickness and desertion:
and the emperor's son expired with the greatest part of his
Swabian vassals at the siege of Acre. Among the Latin heroes,
Godfrey of Bouillon and Frederic Barbarossa could alone achieve
the passage of the Lesser Asia; yet even their success was a
warning; and in the last and most experienced age of the
crusades, every nation preferred the sea to the toils and perils
of an inland expedition. ^27</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This was the design of the pilgrims under the
archbishop of Milan. See note, p. 102. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Conrad had advanced with part of his army along a
central road, between that on the coast and that which led to
Iconium. He had been betrayed by the Greeks, his army destroyed
without a battle. Wilken, vol. iii. p. 165. Michaud, vol. ii. p.
156. Conrad advanced again with Louis as far as Ephesus, and from
thence, at the invitation of Manuel, returned to Constantinople.
It was Louis who, at the passage of the M&aelig;ander, was
engaged in a "glorious action." Wilken, vol. iii. p. 179. Michaud
vol. ii. p. 160. Gibbon followed Nicetas. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: As counts of Vexin, the kings of France were the
vassals and advocates of the monastery of St. Denys. The saint's
peculiar banner, which they received from the abbot, was of a
square form, and a red or <strong><em>flaming</em></strong>
color. The <strong><em>oriflamme</em></strong> appeared at the
head of the French armies from the xiith to the xvth century,
(Ducange sur Joinville, Dissert. xviii. p. 244--253.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: They descended the heights to a beautiful valley
which by beneath them. The Turks seized the heights which
separated the two divisions of the army. The modern historians
represent differently the act to which Louis owed his safety,
which Gibbon has described by the undignified phrase, "he climbed
a tree." According to Michaud, vol. ii. p. 164, the king got upon
a rock, with his back against a tree; according to Wilken, vol.
iii., he dragged himself up to the top of the rock by the roots
of a tree, and continued to defend himself till nightfall. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: The original French histories of the second
crusade are the Gesta Ludovici VII. published in the ivth volume
of Duchesne's collection. The same volume contains many original
letters of the king, of Suger his minister, &amp;c., the best
documents of authentic history.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: Terram horroris et salsuginis, terram siccam
sterilem, inamnam. Anonym. Canis. p. 517. The emphatic language
of a sufferer.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: Gens innumera, sylvestris, indomita,
pr&aelig;dones sine ductore. The sultan of Cogni might sincerely
rejoice in their defeat. Anonym. Canis. p. 517, 518.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: See, in the anonymous writer in the Collection
of Canisius, Tagino and Bohadin, (Vit. Saladin. p. 119, 120,) the
ambiguous conduct of Kilidge Arslan, sultan of Cogni, who hated
and feared both Saladin and Frederic.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: The desire of comparing two great men has
tempted many writers to drown Frederic in the River Cydnus, in
which Alexander so imprudently bathed, (Q. Curt. l. iii c. 4, 5.)
But, from the march of the emperor, I rather judge, that his
Saleph is the Calycadnus, a stream of less fame, but of a longer
course. *</p>

<p>Note: * It is now called the Girama: its course is described
in M'Donald Kinneir's Travels. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Marinus Sanutus, A.D. 1321, lays it down as a
precept, Quod stolus ecclesi&aelig; per terram nullatenus est
ducenda. He resolves, by the divine aid, the objection, or rather
exception, of the first crusade, (Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l. ii.
pars ii. c. i. p. 37.)]</p>

<p>The enthusiasm of the first crusade is a natural and simple
event, while hope was fresh, danger untried, and enterprise
congenial to the spirit of the times. But the obstinate
perseverance of Europe may indeed excite our pity and admiration;
that no instruction should have been drawn from constant and
adverse experience; that the same confidence should have
repeatedly grown from the same failures; that six succeeding
generations should have rushed headlong down the precipice that
was open before them; and that men of every condition should have
staked their public and private fortunes on the desperate
adventure of possessing or recovering a tombstone two thousand
miles from their country. In a period of two centuries after the
council of Clermont, each spring and summer produced a new
emigration of pilgrim warriors for the defence of the Holy Land;
but the seven great armaments or crusades were excited by some
impending or recent calamity: the nations were moved by the
authority of their pontiffs, and the example of their kings:
their zeal was kindled, and their reason was silenced, by the
voice of their holy orators; and among these, Bernard, ^28 the
monk, or the saint, may claim the most honorable place. ^* About
eight years before the first conquest of Jerusalem, he was born
of a noble family in Burgundy; at the age of three-and-twenty he
buried himself in the monastery of Citeaux, then in the primitive
fervor of the institution; at the end of two years he led forth
her third colony, or daughter, to the valley of Clairvaux ^29 in
Champagne; and was content, till the hour of his death, with the
humble station of abbot of his own community. A philosophic age
has abolished, with too liberal and indiscriminate disdain, the
honors of these spiritual heroes. The meanest among them are
distinguished by some energies of the mind; they were at least
superior to their votaries and disciples; and, in the race of
superstition, they attained the prize for which such numbers
contended. In speech, in writing, in action, Bernard stood high
above his rivals and contemporaries; his compositions are not
devoid of wit and eloquence; and he seems to have preserved as
much reason and humanity as may be reconciled with the character
of a saint. In a secular life, he would have shared the seventh
part of a private inheritance; by a vow of poverty and penance,
by closing his eyes against the visible world, ^30 by the refusal
of all ecclesiastical dignities, the abbot of Clairvaux became
the oracle of Europe, and the founder of one hundred and sixty
convents. Princes and pontiffs trembled at the freedom of his
apostolical censures: France, England, and Milan, consulted and
obeyed his judgment in a schism of the church: the debt was
repaid by the gratitude of Innocent the Second; and his
successor, Eugenius the Third, was the friend and disciple of the
holy Bernard. It was in the proclamation of the second crusade
that he shone as the missionary and prophet of God, who called
the nations to the defence of his holy sepulchre. ^31 At the
parliament of Vezelay he spoke before the king; and Louis the
Seventh, with his nobles, received their crosses from his hand.
The abbot of Clairvaux then marched to the less easy conquest of
the emperor Conrad: ^* a phlegmatic people, ignorant of his
language, was transported by the pathetic vehemence of his tone
and gestures; and his progress, from Constance to Cologne, was
the triumph of eloquence and zeal. Bernard applauds his own
success in the depopulation of Europe; affirms that cities and
castles were emptied of their inhabitants; and computes, that
only one man was left behind for the consolation of seven widows.
^32 The blind fanatics were desirous of electing him for their
general; but the example of the hermit Peter was before his eyes;
and while he assured the crusaders of the divine favor, he
prudently declined a military command, in which failure and
victory would have been almost equally disgraceful to his
character. ^33 Yet, after the calamitous event, the abbot of
Clairvaux was loudly accused as a false prophet, the author of
the public and private mourning; his enemies exulted, his friends
blushed, and his apology was slow and unsatisfactory. He
justifies his obedience to the commands of the pope; expatiates
on the mysterious ways of Providence; imputes the misfortunes of
the pilgrims to their own sins; and modestly insinuates, that his
mission had been approved by signs and wonders. ^34 Had the fact
been certain, the argument would be decisive; and his faithful
disciples, who enumerate twenty or thirty miracles in a day,
appeal to the public assemblies of France and Germany, in which
they were performed. ^35 At the present hour, such prodigies will
not obtain credit beyond the precincts of Clairvaux; but in the
preternatural cures of the blind, the lame, and the sick, who
were presented to the man of God, it is impossible for us to
ascertain the separate shares of accident, of fancy, of
imposture, and of fiction.</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: The most authentic information of St. Bernard
must be drawn from his own writings, published in a correct
edition by P&egrave;re Mabillon, and reprinted at Venice, 1750,
in six volumes in folio. Whatever friendship could recollect, or
superstition could add, is contained in the two lives, by his
disciples, in the vith volume: whatever learning and criticism
could ascertain, may be found in the prefaces of the Benedictine
editor.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Gibbon, whose account of the crusades is perhaps
the least accurate and satisfactory chapter in his History, has
here failed in that lucid arrangement, which in general gives
perspicuity to his most condensed and crowded narratives. He has
unaccountably, and to the great perplexity of the reader, placed
the preaching of St Bernard after the second crusade to which i
led. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Clairvaux, surnamed the valley of Absynth, is
situate among the woods near Bar sur Aube in Champagne. St.
Bernard would blush at the pomp of the church and monastery; he
would ask for the library, and I know not whether he would be
much edified by a tun of 800 muids, (914 1-7 hogsheads,) which
almost rivals that of Heidelberg, (M&eacute;langes tir&eacute;s
d'une Grande Biblioth&egrave;que, tom. xlvi. p. 15--20.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: The disciples of the saint (Vit. i<sup>ma</sup>,
l. iii. c. 2, p. 1232. Vit. ii<sup>da</sup>, c. 16, No. 45, p.
1383) record a marvellous example of his pious apathy. Juxta
lacum etiam Lausannensem totius diei itinere pergens, penitus non
attendit aut se videre non vidit. Cum enim vespere facto de eodem
lac&ucirc; socii colloquerentur, interrogabat eos ubi lacus ille
esset, et mirati sunt universi. To admire or despise St. Bernard
as he ought, the reader, like myself, should have before the
windows of his library the beauties of that incomparable
landscape.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: Otho Frising. l. i. c. 4. Bernard. Epist. 363,
ad Francos Orientales Opp. tom. i. p. 328. Vit. i<sup>ma</sup>,
l. iii. c. 4, tom. vi. p. 1235.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Bernard had a nobler object in his expedition
into Germany -- to arrest the fierce and merciless persecution of
the Jews, which was preparing, under the monk Radulph, to renew
the frightful scenes which had preceded the first crusade, in the
flourishing cities on the banks of the Rhine. The Jews
acknowledge the Christian intervention of St. Bernard. See the
curious extract from the History of Joseph ben Meir. Wilken, vol.
iii. p. 1. and p. 63. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: Mandastis et obedivi . . . . multiplicati sunt
super numerum; vacuantur urbes et castella; et
<strong><em>pene</em></strong> jam non inveniunt quem
apprehendant septem mulieres unum virum; adeo ubique vidu&aelig;
vivis remanent viris. Bernard. Epist. p. 247. We must be careful
not to construe <strong><em>pene</em></strong> as a
substantive.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: Quis ego sum ut disponam acies, ut egrediar ante
facies armatorum, aut quid tam remotum a professione me&acirc;,
si vires, si peritia, &amp;c. Epist. 256, tom. i. p. 259. He
speaks with contempt of the hermit Peter, vir quidam, Epist.
363.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: Sic dicunt forsitan isti, unde scimus
qu&ograve;d a Domino sermo egressus sit? Qu&aelig; signa tu facis
ut credamus tibi? Non est quod ad ista ipse respondeam; parcendum
verecundi&aelig; me&aelig;, responde tu pro me, et pro te ipso,
secundum qu&aelig; vidisti et audisti, et secundum quod te
inspiraverit Deus. Consolat. l. ii. c. 1. Opp. tom. ii. p.
421--423.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: See the testimonies in Vita i<sup>ma</sup>, l.
iv. c. 5, 6. Opp. tom. vi. p. 1258--1261, l. vi. c. 1--17, p.
1286--1314.]</p>

<p>Omnipotence itself cannot escape the murmurs of its discordant
votaries; since the same dispensation which was applauded as a
deliverance in Europe, was deplored, and perhaps arraigned, as a
calamity in Asia. After the loss of Jerusalem, the Syrian
fugitives diffused their consternation and sorrow; Bagdad mourned
in the dust; the cadhi Zeineddin of Damascus tore his beard in
the caliph's presence; and the whole divan shed tears at his
melancholy tale. ^36 But the commanders of the faithful could
only weep; they were themselves captives in the hands of the
Turks: some temporal power was restored to the last age of the
Abbassides; but their humble ambition was confined to Bagdad and
the adjacent province. Their tyrants, the Seljukian sultans, had
followed the common law of the Asiatic dynasties, the unceasing
round of valor, greatness, discord, degeneracy, and decay; their
spirit and power were unequal to the defence of religion; and, in
his distant realm of Persia, the Christians were strangers to the
name and the arms of Sangiar, the last hero of his race. ^37
While the sultans were involved in the silken web of the harem,
the pious task was undertaken by their slaves, the Atabeks, ^38 a
Turkish name, which, like the Byzantine patricians, may be
translated by Father of the Prince. Ascansar, a valiant Turk, had
been the favorite of Malek Shaw, from whom he received the
privilege of standing on the right hand of the throne; but, in
the civil wars that ensued on the monarch's death, he lost his
head and the government of Aleppo. His domestic emirs persevered
in their attachment to his son Zenghi, who proved his first arms
against the Franks in the defeat of Antioch: thirty campaigns in
the service of the caliph and sultan established his military
fame; and he was invested with the command of Mosul, as the only
champion that could avenge the cause of the prophet. The public
hope was not disappointed: after a siege of twenty-five days, he
stormed the city of Edessa, and recovered from the Franks their
conquests beyond the Euphrates: ^39 the martial tribes of
Curdistan were subdued by the independent sovereign of Mosul and
Aleppo: his soldiers were taught to behold the camp as their only
country; they trusted to his liberality for their rewards; and
their absent families were protected by the vigilance of Zenghi.
At the head of these veterans, his son Noureddin gradually united
the Mahometan powers; ^* added the kingdom of Damascus to that of
Aleppo, and waged a long and successful war against the
Christians of Syria; he spread his ample reign from the Tigris to
the Nile, and the Abbassides rewarded their faithful servant with
all the titles and prerogatives of royalty. The Latins themselves
were compelled to own the wisdom and courage, and even the
justice and piety, of this implacable adversary. ^40 In his life
and government the holy warrior revived the zeal and simplicity
of the first caliphs. Gold and silk were banished from his
palace; the use of wine from his dominions; the public revenue
was scrupulously applied to the public service; and the frugal
household of Noureddin was maintained from his legitimate share
of the spoil which he vested in the purchase of a private estate.
His favorite sultana sighed for some female object of expense.
"Alas," replied the king, "I fear God, and am no more than the
treasurer of the Moslems. Their property I cannot alienate; but I
still possess three shops in the city of Hems: these you may
take; and these alone can I bestow." His chamber of justice was
the terror of the great and the refuge of the poor. Some years
after the sultan's death, an oppressed subject called aloud in
the streets of Damascus, "O Noureddin, Noureddin, where art thou
now? Arise, arise, to pity and protect us!" A tumult was
apprehended, and a living tyrant blushed or trembled at the name
of a departed monarch.</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: Abulmahasen apud de Guignes, Hist. des Huns,
tom. ii. p. ii. p. 99.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: See his <strong><em>article</em></strong> in the
Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale of D'Herbelot, and De Guignes, tom.
ii. p. i. p. 230--261. Such was his valor, that he was styled the
second Alexander; and such the extravagant love of his subjects,
that they prayed for the sultan a year after his decease. Yet
Sangiar might have been made prisoner by the Franks, as well as
by the Uzes. He reigned near fifty years, (A.D. 1103--1152,) and
was a munificent patron of Persian poetry.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: See the Chronology of the Atabeks of Irak and
Syria, in De Guignes, tom. i. p. 254; and the reigns of Zenghi
and Noureddin in the same writer, (tom. ii. p. ii. p. 147--221,)
who uses the Arabic text of Benelathir, Ben Schouna and Abulfeda;
the Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale, under the articles
<strong><em>Atabeks</em></strong> and
<strong><em>Noureddin</em></strong>, and the Dynasties of
Abulpharagius, p. 250--267, vers. Pocock.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: William of Tyre (l. xvi. c. 4, 5, 7) describes
the loss of Edessa, and the death of Zenghi. The corruption of
his name into <strong><em>Sanguin</em></strong>, afforded the
Latins a comfortable allusion to his
<strong><em>sanguinary</em></strong> character and end, fit
sanguine sanguinolentus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: On Noureddin's conquest of Damascus, see extracts
from Arabian writers prefixed to the second part of the third
volume of Wilken. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: Noradinus (says William of Tyre, l. xx. 33)
maximus nominis et fidei Christian&aelig; persecutor; princeps
tamen justus, vafer, providus' et secundum gentis su&aelig;
traditiones religiosus. To this Catholic witness we may add the
primate of the Jacobites, (Abulpharag. p. 267,) quo non alter
erat inter reges vit&aelig; ratione magis laudabili, aut
qu&aelig; pluribus justiti&aelig; experimentis abundaret. The
true praise of kings is after their death, and from the mouth of
their enemies.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LIX: The Crusades. -- Part
II.</em></strong></p>

<p>By the arms of the Turks and Franks, the Fatimites had been
deprived of Syria. In Egypt the decay of their character and
influence was still more essential. Yet they were still revered
as the descendants and successors of the prophet; they maintained
their invisible state in the palace of Cairo; and their person
was seldom violated by the profane eyes of subjects or strangers.
The Latin ambassadors ^41 have described their own introduction,
through a series of gloomy passages, and glittering porticos: the
scene was enlivened by the warbling of birds and the murmur of
fountains: it was enriched by a display of rich furniture and
rare animals; of the Imperial treasures, something was shown, and
much was supposed; and the long order of unfolding doors was
guarded by black soldiers and domestic eunuchs. The sanctuary of
the presence chamber was veiled with a curtain; and the vizier,
who conducted the ambassadors, laid aside the cimeter, and
prostrated himself three times on the ground; the veil was then
removed; and they beheld the commander of the faithful, who
signified his pleasure to the first slave of the throne. But this
slave was his master: the viziers or sultans had usurped the
supreme administration of Egypt; the claims of the rival
candidates were decided by arms; and the name of the most worthy,
of the strongest, was inserted in the royal patent of command.
The factions of Dargham and Shawer alternately expelled each
other from the capital and country; and the weaker side implored
the dangerous protection of the sultan of Damascus, or the king
of Jerusalem, the perpetual enemies of the sect and monarchy of
the Fatimites. By his arms and religion the Turk was most
formidable; but the Frank, in an easy, direct march, could
advance from Gaza to the Nile; while the intermediate situation
of his realm compelled the troops of Noureddin to wheel round the
skirts of Arabia, a long and painful circuit, which exposed them
to thirst, fatigue, and the burning winds of the desert. The
secret zeal and ambition of the Turkish prince aspired to reign
in Egypt under the name of the Abbassides; but the restoration of
the suppliant Shawer was the ostensible motive of the first
expedition; and the success was intrusted to the emir Shiracouh,
a valiant and veteran commander. Dargham was oppressed and slain;
but the ingratitude, the jealousy, the just apprehensions, of his
more fortunate rival, soon provoked him to invite the king of
Jerusalem to deliver Egypt from his insolent benefactors. To this
union the forces of Shiracouh were unequal: he relinquished the
premature conquest; and the evacuation of Belbeis or Pelusium was
the condition of his safe retreat. As the Turks defiled before
the enemy, and their general closed the rear, with a vigilant
eye, and a battle axe in his hand, a Frank presumed to ask him if
he were not afraid of an attack. "It is doubtless in your power
to begin the attack," replied the intrepid emir; "but rest
assured, that not one of my soldiers will go to paradise till he
has sent an infidel to hell." His report of the riches of the
land, the effeminacy of the natives, and the disorders of the
government, revived the hopes of Noureddin; the caliph of Bagdad
applauded the pious design; and Shiracouh descended into Egypt a
second time with twelve thousand Turks and eleven thousand Arabs.
Yet his forces were still inferior to the confederate armies of
the Franks and Saracens; and I can discern an unusual degree of
military art, in his passage of the Nile, his retreat into
Thebais, his masterly evolutions in the battle of Babain, the
surprise of Alexandria, and his marches and countermarches in the
flats and valley of Egypt, from the tropic to the sea. His
conduct was seconded by the courage of his troops, and on the eve
of action a Mamaluke ^42 exclaimed, "If we cannot wrest Egypt
from the Christian dogs, why do we not renounce the honors and
rewards of the sultan, and retire to labor with the peasants, or
to spin with the females of the harem?" Yet, after all his
efforts in the field, ^43 after the obstinate defence of
Alexandria ^44 by his nephew Saladin, an honorable capitulation
and retreat ^* concluded the second enterprise of Shiracouh; and
Noureddin reserved his abilities for a third and more propitious
occasion. It was soon offered by the ambition and avarice of
Amalric or Amaury, king of Jerusalem, who had imbibed the
pernicious maxim, that no faith should be kept with the enemies
of God. ^! A religious warrior, the great master of the hospital,
encouraged him to proceed; the emperor of Constantinople either
gave, or promised, a fleet to act with the armies of Syria; and
the perfidious Christian, unsatisfied with spoil and subsidy,
aspired to the conquest of Egypt. In this emergency, the Moslems
turned their eyes towards the sultan of Damascus; the vizier,
whom danger encompassed on all sides, yielded to their unanimous
wishes, and Noureddin seemed to be tempted by the fair offer of
one third of the revenue of the kingdom. The Franks were already
at the gates of Cairo; but the suburbs, the old city, were burnt
on their approach; they were deceived by an insidious
negotiation, and their vessels were unable to surmount the
barriers of the Nile. They prudently declined a contest with the
Turks in the midst of a hostile country; and Amaury retired into
Palestine with the shame and reproach that always adhere to
unsuccessful injustice. After this deliverance, Shiracouh was
invested with a robe of honor, which he soon stained with the
blood of the unfortunate Shawer. For a while, the Turkish emirs
condescended to hold the office of vizier; but this foreign
conquest precipitated the fall of the Fatimites themselves; and
the bloodless change was accomplished by a message and a word.
The caliphs had been degraded by their own weakness and the
tyranny of the viziers: their subjects blushed, when the
descendant and successor of the prophet presented his naked hand
to the rude gripe of a Latin ambassador; they wept when he sent
the hair of his women, a sad emblem of their grief and terror, to
excite the pity of the sultan of Damascus. By the command of
Noureddin, and the sentence of the doctors, the holy names of
Abubeker, Omar, and Othman, were solemnly restored: the caliph
Mosthadi, of Bagdad, was acknowledged in the public prayers as
the true commander of the faithful; and the green livery of the
sons of Ali was exchanged for the black color of the Abbassides.
The last of his race, the caliph Adhed, who survived only ten
days, expired in happy ignorance of his fate; his treasures
secured the loyalty of the soldiers, and silenced the murmurs of
the sectaries; and in all subsequent revolutions, Egypt has never
departed from the orthodox tradition of the Moslems. ^45</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: From the ambassador, William of Tyre (l. xix. c.
17, 18,) describes the palace of Cairo. In the caliph's treasure
were found a pearl as large as a pigeon's egg, a ruby weighing
seventeen Egyptian drams, an emerald a palm and a half in length,
and many vases of crystal and porcelain of China, (Renaudot, p.
536.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: <strong><em>Mamluc</em></strong>, plur.
<strong><em>Mamalic</em></strong>, is defined by Pocock,
(Prolegom. ad Abulpharag. p. 7,) and D'Herbelot, (p. 545,) servum
emptitium, seu qui pretio numerato in domini possessionem cedit.
They frequently occur in the wars of Saladin, (Bohadin, p. 236,
&amp;c.;) and it was only the <strong><em>Bahartie</em></strong>
Mamalukes that were first introduced into Egypt by his
descendants.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: Jacobus &agrave; Vitriaco (p. 1116) gives the
king of Jerusalem no more than 374 knights. Both the Franks and
the Moslems report the superior numbers of the enemy; a
difference which may be solved by counting or omitting the
unwarlike Egyptians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: It was the Alexandria of the Arabs, a middle
term in extent and riches between the period of the Greeks and
Romans, and that of the Turks, (Savary, Lettres sur l'Egypte,
tom. i. p. 25, 26.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The treaty stipulated that both the Christians
and the Arabs should withdraw from Egypt. Wilken, vol. iii. part
ii. p. 113. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: The Knights Templars, abhorring the perfidious
breach of treaty partly, perhaps, out of jealousy of the
Hospitallers, refused to join in this enterprise. Will. Tyre c.
xx. p. 5. Wilken, vol. iii. part ii. p. 117. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: For this great revolution of Egypt, see William
of Tyre, (l. xix. 5, 6, 7, 12--31, xx. 5--12,) Bohadin, (in Vit.
Saladin, p. 30--39,) Abulfeda, (in Excerpt. Schultens, p. 1--12,)
D'Herbelot, (Bibliot. Orient. <strong><em>Adhed</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Fathemah</em></strong>, but very incorrect,)
Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 522--525, 532--537,) Vertot,
(Hist. des Chevaliers de Malthe, tom. i. p. 141--163, in 4to.,)
and M. de Guignes, (tom. ii. p. 185--215.)]</p>

<p>The hilly country beyond the Tigris is occupied by the
pastoral tribes of the Curds; ^46 a people hardy, strong, savage
impatient of the yoke, addicted to rapine, and tenacious of the
government of their national chiefs. The resemblance of name,
situation, and manners, seems to identify them with the
Carduchians of the Greeks; ^47 and they still defend against the
Ottoman Porte the antique freedom which they asserted against the
successors of Cyrus. Poverty and ambition prompted them to
embrace the profession of mercenary soldiers: the service of his
father and uncle prepared the reign of the great Saladin; ^48 and
the son of Job or Ayud, a simple Curd, magnanimously smiled at
his pedigree, which flattery deduced from the Arabian caliphs.
^49 So unconscious was Noureddin of the impending ruin of his
house, that he constrained the reluctant youth to follow his
uncle Shiracouh into Egypt: his military character was
established by the defence of Alexandria; and, if we may believe
the Latins, he solicited and obtained from the Christian general
the <strong><em>profane</em></strong>honors of knighthood. ^50 On
the death of Shiracouh, the office of grand vizier was bestowed
on Saladin, as the youngest and least powerful of the emirs; but
with the advice of his father, whom he invited to Cairo, his
genius obtained the ascendant over his equals, and attached the
army to his person and interest. While Noureddin lived, these
ambitious Curds were the most humble of his slaves; and the
indiscreet murmurs of the divan were silenced by the prudent
Ayub, who loudly protested that at the command of the sultan he
himself would lead his sons in chains to the foot of the throne.
"Such language," he added in private, "was prudent and proper in
an assembly of your rivals; but we are now above fear and
obedience; and the threats of Noureddin shall not extort the
tribute of a sugar-cane." His seasonable death relieved them from
the odious and doubtful conflict: his son, a minor of eleven
years of age, was left for a while to the emirs of Damascus; and
the new lord of Egypt was decorated by the caliph with every
title ^51 that could sanctify his usurpation in the eyes of the
people. Nor was Saladin long content with the possession of
Egypt; he despoiled the Christians of Jerusalem, and the Atabeks
of Damascus, Aleppo, and Diarbekir: Mecca and Medina acknowledged
him for their temporal protector: his brother subdued the distant
regions of Yemen, or the happy Arabia; and at the hour of his
death, his empire was spread from the African Tripoli to the
Tigris, and from the Indian Ocean to the mountains of Armenia. In
the judgment of his character, the reproaches of treason and
ingratitude strike forcibly on <strong><em>our</em></strong>
minds, impressed, as they are, with the principle and experience
of law and loyalty. But his ambition may in some measure be
excused by the revolutions of Asia, ^52 which had erased every
notion of legitimate succession; by the recent example of the
Atabeks themselves; by his reverence to the son of his
benefactor; his humane and generous behavior to the collateral
branches; by <strong><em>their</em></strong> incapacity and
<strong><em>his</em></strong> merit; by the approbation of the
caliph, the sole source of all legitimate power; and, above all,
by the wishes and interest of the people, whose happiness is the
first object of government. In <strong><em>his</em></strong>
virtues, and in those of his patron, they admired the singular
union of the hero and the saint; for both Noureddin and Saladin
are ranked among the Mahometan saints; and the constant
meditation of the holy war appears to have shed a serious and
sober color over their lives and actions. The youth of the latter
^53 was addicted to wine and women: but his aspiring spirit soon
renounced the temptations of pleasure for the graver follies of
fame and dominion: the garment of Saladin was of coarse woollen;
water was his only drink; and, while he emulated the temperance,
he surpassed the chastity, of his Arabian prophet. Both in faith
and practice he was a rigid Mussulman: he ever deplored that the
defence of religion had not allowed him to accomplish the
pilgrimage of Mecca; but at the stated hours, five times each
day, the sultan devoutly prayed with his brethren: the
involuntary omission of fasting was scrupulously repaid; and his
perusal of the Koran, on horseback between the approaching
armies, may be quoted as a proof, however ostentatious, of piety
and courage. ^54 The superstitious doctrine of the sect of Shafei
was the only study that he deigned to encourage: the poets were
safe in his contempt; but all profane science was the object of
his aversion; and a philosopher, who had invented some
speculative novelties, was seized and strangled by the command of
the royal saint. The justice of his divan was accessible to the
meanest suppliant against himself and his ministers; and it was
only for a kingdom that Saladin would deviate from the rule of
equity. While the descendants of Seljuk and Zenghi held his
stirrup and smoothed his garments, he was affable and patient
with the meanest of his servants. So boundless was his
liberality, that he distributed twelve thousand horses at the
siege of Acre; and, at the time of his death, no more than
forty-seven drams of silver and one piece of gold coin were found
in the treasury; yet, in a martial reign, the tributes were
diminished, and the wealthy citizens enjoyed, without fear or
danger, the fruits of their industry. Egypt, Syria, and Arabia,
were adorned by the royal foundations of hospitals, colleges, and
mosques; and Cairo was fortified with a wall and citadel; but his
works were consecrated to public use: ^55 nor did the sultan
indulge himself in a garden or palace of private luxury. In a
fanatic age, himself a fanatic, the genuine virtues of Saladin
commanded the esteem of the Christians; the emperor of Germany
gloried in his friendship; ^56 the Greek emperor solicited his
alliance; ^57 and the conquest of Jerusalem diffused, and perhaps
magnified, his fame both in the East and West.</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: For the Curds, see De Guignes, tom. ii. p. 416,
417, the Index Geographicus of Schultens and Tavernier, Voyages,
p. i. p. 308, 309. The Ayoubites descended from the tribe of the
Rawadi&aelig;i, one of the noblest; but as
<strong><em>they</em></strong> were infected with the heresy of
the Metempsychosis, the orthodox sultans insinuated that their
descent was only on the mother's side, and that their ancestor
was a stranger who settled among the Curds.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: See the ivth book of the Anabasis of Xenophon.
The ten thousand suffered more from the arrows of the free
Carduchians, than from the splendid weakness of the great
king.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: We are indebted to the professor Schultens
(Lugd. Bat, 1755, in folio) for the richest and most authentic
materials, a life of Saladin by his friend and minister the Cadhi
Bohadin, and copious extracts from the history of his kinsman the
prince Abulfeda of Hamah. To these we may add, the article of
<strong><em>Salaheddin</em></strong> in the Biblioth&egrave;que
Orientale, and all that may be gleaned from the Dynasties of
Abulpharagius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Since Abulfeda was himself an Ayoubite, he may
share the praise, for imitating, at least tacitly, the modesty of
the founder.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: Hist. Hierosol. in the Gesta Dei per Francos, p.
1152. A similar example may be found in Joinville, (p. 42,
edition du Louvre;) but the pious St. Louis refused to dignify
infidels with the order of Christian knighthood, (Ducange,
Observations, p 70.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: In these Arabic titles,
<strong><em>religionis</em></strong> must always be understood;
<strong><em>Noureddin</em></strong>, lumen r.;
<strong><em>Ezzodin</em></strong>, decus;
<strong><em>Amadoddin</em></strong>, columen: our hero's proper
name was Joseph, and he was styled
<strong><em>Salahoddin</em></strong>, salus; <strong><em>Al
Malichus</em></strong>, <strong><em>Al Nasirus</em></strong>, rex
defensor; <strong><em>Abu Modaffer</em></strong>, pater
victori&aelig;, Schultens, Pr&aelig;fat.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Abulfeda, who descended from a brother of
Saladin, observes, from many examples, that the founders of
dynasties took the guilt for themselves, and left the reward to
their innocent collaterals, (Excerpt p. 10.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: See his life and character in Renaudot, p.
537--548.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: His civil and religious virtues are celebrated
in the first chapter of Bohadin, (p. 4--30,) himself an
eye-witness, and an honest bigot.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: In many works, particularly Joseph's well in the
castle of Cairo, the Sultan and the Patriarch have been
confounded by the ignorance of natives and travellers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: Anonym. Canisii, tom. iii. p. ii. p. 504.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Bohadin, p. 129, 130.]</p>

<p>During his short existence, the kingdom of Jerusalem ^58 was
supported by the discord of the Turks and Saracens; and both the
Fatimite caliphs and the sultans of Damascus were tempted to
sacrifice the cause of their religion to the meaner
considerations of private and present advantage. But the powers
of Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, were now united by a hero, whom
nature and fortune had armed against the Christians. All without
now bore the most threatening aspect; and all was feeble and
hollow in the internal state of Jerusalem. After the two first
Baldwins, the brother and cousin of Godfrey of Bouillon, the
sceptre devolved by female succession to Melisenda, daughter of
the second Baldwin, and her husband Fulk, count of Anjou, the
father, by a former marriage, of our English Plantagenets. Their
two sons, Baldwin the Third, and Amaury, waged a strenuous, and
not unsuccessful, war against the infidels; but the son of
Amaury, Baldwin the Fourth, was deprived, by the leprosy, a gift
of the crusades, of the faculties both of mind and body. His
sister Sybilla, the mother of Baldwin the Fifth, was his natural
heiress: after the suspicious death of her child, she crowned her
second husband, Guy of Lusignan, a prince of a handsome person,
but of such base renown, that his own brother Jeffrey was heard
to exclaim, "Since they have made <strong><em>him</em></strong> a
king, surely they would have made <strong><em>me</em></strong> a
god!" The choice was generally blamed; and the most powerful
vassal, Raymond count of Tripoli, who had been excluded from the
succession and regency, entertained an implacable hatred against
the king, and exposed his honor and conscience to the temptations
of the sultan. Such were the guardians of the holy city; a leper,
a child, a woman, a coward, and a traitor: yet its fate was
delayed twelve years by some supplies from Europe, by the valor
of the military orders, and by the distant or domestic avocations
of their great enemy. At length, on every side, the sinking state
was encircled and pressed by a hostile line: and the truce was
violated by the Franks, whose existence it protected. A soldier
of fortune, Reginald of Chatillon, had seized a fortress on the
edge of the desert, from whence he pillaged the caravans,
insulted Mahomet, and threatened the cities of Mecca and Medina.
Saladin condescended to complain; rejoiced in the denial of
justice, and at the head of fourscore thousand horse and foot
invaded the Holy Land. The choice of Tiberias for his first siege
was suggested by the count of Tripoli, to whom it belonged; and
the king of Jerusalem was persuaded to drain his garrison, and to
arm his people, for the relief of that important place. ^59 By
the advice of the perfidious Raymond, the Christians were
betrayed into a camp destitute of water: he fled on the first
onset, with the curses of both nations: ^60 Lusignan was
overthrown, with the loss of thirty thousand men; and the wood of
the true cross (a dire misfortune!) was left in the power of the
infidels. ^* The royal captive was conducted to the tent of
Saladin; and as he fainted with thirst and terror, the generous
victor presented him with a cup of sherbet, cooled in snow,
without suffering his companion, Reginald of Chatillon, to
partake of this pledge of hospitality and pardon. "The person and
dignity of a king," said the sultan, "are sacred, but this
impious robber must instantly acknowledge the prophet, whom he
has blasphemed, or meet the death which he has so often
deserved." On the proud or conscientious refusal of the Christian
warrior, Saladin struck him on the head with his cimeter, and
Reginald was despatched by the guards. ^61 The trembling Lusignan
was sent to Damascus, to an honorable prison and speedy ransom;
but the victory was stained by the execution of two hundred and
thirty knights of the hospital, the intrepid champions and
martyrs of their faith. The kingdom was left without a head; and
of the two grand masters of the military orders, the one was
slain and the other was a prisoner. From all the cities, both of
the sea-coast and the inland country, the garrisons had been
drawn away for this fatal field: Tyre and Tripoli alone could
escape the rapid inroad of Saladin; and three months after the
battle of Tiberias, he appeared in arms before the gates of
Jerusalem. ^62</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: For the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, see William
of Tyre, from the ixth to the xxiid book. Jacob a Vitriaco, Hist.
Hierosolem l i., and Sanutus Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l. iii. p.
vi. vii. viii. ix.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Templarii ut apes bombabant et Hospitalarii ut
venti stridebant, et barones se exitio offerebant, et Turcopuli
(the Christian light troops) semet ipsi in ignem injiciebant,
(Ispahani de Expugnatione Kudsitic&acirc;, p. 18, apud
Schultens;) a specimen of Arabian eloquence, somewhat different
from the style of Xenophon!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: The Latins affirm, the Arabians insinuate, the
treason of Raymond; but had he really embraced their religion, he
would have been a saint and a hero in the eyes of the
latter.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Raymond's advice would have prevented the
abandonment of a secure camp abounding with water near Sepphoris.
The rash and insolent valor of the master of the order of Knights
Templars, which had before exposed the Christians to a fatal
defeat at the brook Kishon, forced the feeble king to annul the
determination of a council of war, and advance to a camp in an
enclosed valley among the mountains, near Hittin, without water.
Raymond did not fly till the battle was irretrievably lost, and
then the Saracens seem to have opened their ranks to allow him
free passage. The charge of suggesting the siege of Tiberias
appears ungrounded Raymond, no doubt, played a double part: he
was a man of strong sagacity, who foresaw the desperate nature of
the contest with Saladin, endeavored by every means to maintain
the treaty, and, though he joined both his arms and his still
more valuable counsels to the Christian army, yet kept up a kind
of amicable correspondence with the Mahometans. See Wilken, vol.
iii. part ii. p. 276, et seq. Michaud, vol. ii. p. 278, et seq.
M. Michaud is still more friendly than Wilken to the memory of
Count Raymond, who died suddenly, shortly after the battle of
Hittin. He quotes a letter written in the name of Saladin by the
caliph Alfdel, to show that Raymond was considered by the
Mahometans their most dangerous and detested enemy. "No person of
distinction among the Christians escaped, except the count, (of
Tripoli) whom God curse. God made him die shortly afterwards, and
sent him from the kingdom of death to hell." -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: Benaud, Reginald, or Arnold de Chatillon, is
celebrated by the Latins in his life and death; but the
circumstances of the latter are more distinctly related by
Bohadin and Abulfeda; and Joinville (Hist. de St. Louis, p. 70)
alludes to the practice of Saladin, of never putting to death a
prisoner who had tasted his bread and salt. Some of the
companions of Arnold had been slaughtered, and almost sacrificed,
in a valley of Mecca, ubi sacrificia mactantur, (Abulfeda, p.
32.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Vertot, who well describes the loss of the
kingdom and city (Hist. des Chevaliers de Malthe, tom. i. l. ii.
p. 226--278,) inserts two original epistles of a Knight
Templar.]</p>

<p>He might expect that the siege of a city so venerable on earth
and in heaven, so interesting to Europe and Asia, would rekindle
the last sparks of enthusiasm; and that, of sixty thousand
Christians, every man would be a soldier, and every soldier a
candidate for martyrdom. But Queen Sybilla trembled for herself
and her captive husband; and the barons and knights, who had
escaped from the sword and chains of the Turks, displayed the
same factious and selfish spirit in the public ruin. The most
numerous portion of the inhabitants was composed of the Greek and
Oriental Christians, whom experience had taught to prefer the
Mahometan before the Latin yoke; ^63 and the holy sepulchre
attracted a base and needy crowd, without arms or courage, who
subsisted only on the charity of the pilgrims. Some feeble and
hasty efforts were made for the defence of Jerusalem: but in the
space of fourteen days, a victorious army drove back the sallies
of the besieged, planted their engines, opened the wall to the
breadth of fifteen cubits, applied their scaling-ladders, and
erected on the breach twelve banners of the prophet and the
sultan. It was in vain that a barefoot procession of the queen,
the women, and the monks, implored the Son of God to save his
tomb and his inheritance from impious violation. Their sole hope
was in the mercy of the conqueror, and to their first suppliant
deputation that mercy was sternly denied. "He had sworn to avenge
the patience and long-suffering of the Moslems; the hour of
forgiveness was elapsed, and the moment was now arrived to
expiate, in blood, the innocent blood which had been spilt by
Godfrey and the first crusaders." But a desperate and successful
struggle of the Franks admonished the sultan that his triumph was
not yet secure; he listened with reverence to a solemn adjuration
in the name of the common Father of mankind; and a sentiment of
human sympathy mollified the rigor of fanaticism and conquest. He
consented to accept the city, and to spare the inhabitants. The
Greek and Oriental Christians were permitted to live under his
dominion, but it was stipulated, that in forty days all the
Franks and Latins should evacuate Jerusalem, and be safely
conducted to the seaports of Syria and Egypt; that ten pieces of
gold should be paid for each man, five for each woman, and one
for every child; and that those who were unable to purchase their
freedom should be detained in perpetual slavery. Of some writers
it is a favorite and invidious theme to compare the humanity of
Saladin with the massacre of the first crusade. The difference
would be merely personal; but we should not forget that the
Christians had offered to capitulate, and that the Mahometans of
Jerusalem sustained the last extremities of an assault and storm.
Justice is indeed due to the fidelity with which the Turkish
conqueror fulfilled the conditions of the treaty; and he may be
deservedly praised for the glance of pity which he cast on the
misery of the vanquished. Instead of a rigorous exaction of his
debt, he accepted a sum of thirty thousand byzants, for the
ransom of seven thousand poor; two or three thousand more were
dismissed by his gratuitous clemency; and the number of slaves
was reduced to eleven or fourteen thousand persons. In this
interview with the queen, his words, and even his tears suggested
the kindest consolations; his liberal alms were distributed among
those who had been made orphans or widows by the fortune of war;
and while the knights of the hospital were in arms against him,
he allowed their more pious brethren to continue, during the term
of a year, the care and service of the sick. In these acts of
mercy the virtue of Saladin deserves our admiration and love: he
was above the necessity of dissimulation, and his stern
fanaticism would have prompted him to dissemble, rather than to
affect, this profane compassion for the enemies of the Koran.
After Jerusalem had been delivered from the presence of the
strangers, the sultan made his triumphal entry, his banners
waving in the wind, and to the harmony of martial music. The
great mosque of Omar, which had been converted into a church, was
again consecrated to one God and his prophet Mahomet: the walls
and pavement were purified with rose-water; and a pulpit, the
labor of Noureddin, was erected in the sanctuary. But when the
golden cross that glittered on the dome was cast down, and
dragged through the streets, the Christians of every sect uttered
a lamentable groan, which was answered by the joyful shouts of
the Moslems. In four ivory chests the patriarch had collected the
crosses, the images, the vases, and the relics of the holy place;
they were seized by the conqueror, who was desirous of presenting
the caliph with the trophies of Christian idolatry. He was
persuaded, however, to intrust them to the patriarch and prince
of Antioch; and the pious pledge was redeemed by Richard of
England, at the expense of fifty-two thousand byzants of gold.
^64</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: Renaudot, Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 545.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: For the conquest of Jerusalem, Bohadin (p.
67--75) and Abulfeda (p. 40--43) are our Moslem witnesses. Of the
Christian, Bernard Thesaurarius (c. 151--167) is the most copious
and authentic; see likewise Matthew Paris, (p. 120--124.)]</p>

<p>The nations might fear and hope the immediate and final
expulsion of the Latins from Syria; which was yet delayed above a
century after the death of Saladin. ^65 In the career of victory,
he was first checked by the resistance of Tyre; the troops and
garrisons, which had capitulated, were imprudently conducted to
the same port: their numbers were adequate to the defence of the
place; and the arrival of Conrad of Montferrat inspired the
disorderly crowd with confidence and union. His father, a
venerable pilgrim, had been made prisoner in the battle of
Tiberias; but that disaster was unknown in Italy and Greece, when
the son was urged by ambition and piety to visit the inheritance
of his royal nephew, the infant Baldwin. The view of the Turkish
banners warned him from the hostile coast of Jaffa; and Conrad
was unanimously hailed as the prince and champion of Tyre, which
was already besieged by the conqueror of Jerusalem. The firmness
of his zeal, and perhaps his knowledge of a generous foe, enabled
him to brave the threats of the sultan, and to declare, that
should his aged parent be exposed before the walls, he himself
would discharge the first arrow, and glory in his descent from a
Christian martyr. ^66 The Egyptian fleet was allowed to enter the
harbor of Tyre; but the chain was suddenly drawn, and five
galleys were either sunk or taken: a thousand Turks were slain in
a sally; and Saladin, after burning his engines, concluded a
glorious campaign by a disgraceful retreat to Damascus. He was
soon assailed by a more formidable tempest. The pathetic
narratives, and even the pictures, that represented in lively
colors the servitude and profanation of Jerusalem, awakened the
torpid sensibility of Europe: the emperor Frederic Barbarossa,
and the kings of France and England, assumed the cross; and the
tardy magnitude of their armaments was anticipated by the
maritime states of the Mediterranean and the Ocean. The skilful
and provident Italians first embarked in the ships of Genoa,
Pisa, and Venice. They were speedily followed by the most eager
pilgrims of France, Normandy, and the Western Isles. The powerful
succor of Flanders, Frise, and Denmark, filled near a hundred
vessels: and the Northern warriors were distinguished in the
field by a lofty stature and a ponderous battle-axe. ^67 Their
increasing multitudes could no longer be confined within the
walls of Tyre, or remain obedient to the voice of Conrad. They
pitied the misfortunes, and revered the dignity, of Lusignan, who
was released from prison, perhaps, to divide the army of the
Franks. He proposed the recovery of Ptolemais, or Acre, thirty
miles to the south of Tyre; and the place was first invested by
two thousand horse and thirty thousand foot under his nominal
command. I shall not expatiate on the story of this memorable
siege; which lasted near two years, and consumed, in a narrow
space, the forces of Europe and Asia. Never did the flame of
enthusiasm burn with fiercer and more destructive rage; nor could
the true believers, a common appellation, who consecrated their
own martyrs, refuse some applause to the mistaken zeal and
courage of their adversaries. At the sound of the holy trumpet,
the Moslems of Egypt, Syria, Arabia, and the Oriental provinces,
assembled under the servant of the prophet: ^68 his camp was
pitched and removed within a few miles of Acre; and he labored,
night and day, for the relief of his brethren and the annoyance
of the Franks. Nine battles, not unworthy of the name, were
fought in the neighborhood of Mount Carmel, with such vicissitude
of fortune, that in one attack, the sultan forced his way into
the city; that in one sally, the Christians penetrated to the
royal tent. By the means of divers and pigeons, a regular
correspondence was maintained with the besieged; and, as often as
the sea was left open, the exhausted garrison was withdrawn, and
a fresh supply was poured into the place. The Latin camp was
thinned by famine, the sword and the climate; but the tents of
the dead were replenished with new pilgrims, who exaggerated the
strength and speed of their approaching countrymen. The vulgar
was astonished by the report, that the pope himself, with an
innumerable crusade, was advanced as far as Constantinople. The
march of the emperor filled the East with more serious alarms:
the obstacles which he encountered in Asia, and perhaps in
Greece, were raised by the policy of Saladin: his joy on the
death of Barbarossa was measured by his esteem; and the
Christians were rather dismayed than encouraged at the sight of
the duke of Swabia and his way-worn remnant of five thousand
Germans. At length, in the spring of the second year, the royal
fleets of France and England cast anchor in the Bay of Acre, and
the siege was more vigorously prosecuted by the youthful
emulation of the two kings, Philip Augustus and Richard
Plantagenet. After every resource had been tried, and every hope
was exhausted, the defenders of Acre submitted to their fate; a
capitulation was granted, but their lives and liberties were
taxed at the hard conditions of a ransom of two hundred thousand
pieces of gold, the deliverance of one hundred nobles, and
fifteen hundred inferior captives, and the restoration of the
wood of the holy cross. Some doubts in the agreement, and some
delay in the execution, rekindled the fury of the Franks, and
three thousand Moslems, almost in the sultan's view, were
beheaded by the command of the sanguinary Richard. ^69 By the
conquest of Acre, the Latin powers acquired a strong town and a
convenient harbor; but the advantage was most dearly purchased.
The minister and historian of Saladin computes, from the report
of the enemy, that their numbers, at different periods, amounted
to five or six hundred thousand; that more than one hundred
thousand Christians were slain; that a far greater number was
lost by disease or shipwreck; and that a small portion of this
mighty host could return in safety to their native countries.
^70</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: The sieges of Tyre and Acre are most copiously
described by Bernard Thesaurarius, (de Acquisitione Terr&aelig;
Sanct&aelig;, c. 167--179,) the author of the Historia
Hierosolymitana, (p. 1150--1172, in Bongarsius,) Abulfeda, (p.
43--50,) and Bohadin, (p. 75--179.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: I have followed a moderate and probable
representation of the fact; by Vertot, who adopts without
reluctance a romantic tale the old marquis is actually exposed to
the darts of the besieged.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: Northmanni et Gothi, et c&aelig;teri populi
insularum qu&aelig; inter occidentem et septentrionem sit&aelig;
sunt, gentes bellicos&aelig;, corporis proceri mortis
intrepid&aelig;, bipennibus armat&aelig;, navibus rotundis,
qu&aelig; Ysnachi&aelig; dicuntur, advect&aelig;.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: The historian of Jerusalem (p. 1108) adds the
nations of the East from the Tigris to India, and the swarthy
tribes of Moors and Getulians, so that Asia and Africa fought
against Europe.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: Bohadin, p. 180; and this massacre is neither
denied nor blamed by the Christian historians. Alacriter jussa
complentes, (the English soldiers,) says Galfridus &agrave;
Vinesauf, (l. iv. c. 4, p. 346,) who fixes at 2700 the number of
victims; who are multiplied to 5000 by Roger Hoveden, (p. 697,
698.) The humanity or avarice of Philip Augustus was persuaded to
ransom his prisoners, (Jacob &agrave; Vitriaco, l. i. c. 98, p.
1122.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: Bohadin, p. 14. He quotes the judgment of
Balianus, and the prince of Sidon, and adds, ex illo mundo quasi
hominum paucissimi redierunt. Among the Christians who died
before St. John d'Acre, I find the English names of De Ferrers
earl of Derby, (Dugdale, Baronage, part i. p. 260,) Mowbray,
(idem, p. 124,) De Mandevil, De Fiennes, St. John, Scrope, Bigot,
Talbot, &amp;c.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LIX: The Crusades. -- Part
III.</em></strong></p>

<p>Philip Augustus, and Richard the First, are the only kings of
France and England who have fought under the same banners; but
the holy service in which they were enlisted was incessantly
disturbed by their national jealousy; and the two factions, which
they protected in Palestine, were more averse to each other than
to the common enemy. In the eyes of the Orientals; the French
monarch was superior in dignity and power; and, in the emperor's
absence, the Latins revered him as their temporal chief. ^71 His
exploits were not adequate to his fame. Philip was brave, but the
statesman predominated in his character; he was soon weary of
sacrificing his health and interest on a barren coast: the
surrender of Acre became the signal of his departure; nor could
he justify this unpopular desertion, by leaving the duke of
Burgundy with five hundred knights and ten thousand foot, for the
service of the Holy Land. The king of England, though inferior in
dignity, surpassed his rival in wealth and military renown; ^72
and if heroism be confined to brutal and ferocious valor, Richard
Plantagenet will stand high among the heroes of the age. The
memory of <strong><em>Cur de Lion</em></strong>, of the
lion-hearted prince, was long dear and glorious to his English
subjects; and, at the distance of sixty years, it was celebrated
in proverbial sayings by the grandsons of the Turks and Saracens,
against whom he had fought: his tremendous name was employed by
the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse
suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim,
"Dost thou think King Richard is in that bush?" ^73 His cruelty
to the Mahometans was the effect of temper and zeal; but I cannot
believe that a soldier, so free and fearless in the use of his
lance, would have descended to whet a dagger against his valiant
brother Conrad of Montferrat, who was slain at Tyre by some
secret assassins. ^74 After the surrender of Acre, and the
departure of Philip, the king of England led the crusaders to the
recovery of the sea-coast; and the cities of C&aelig;sarea and
Jaffa were added to the fragments of the kingdom of Lusignan. A
march of one hundred miles from Acre to Ascalon was a great and
perpetual battle of eleven days. In the disorder of his troops,
Saladin remained on the field with seventeen guards, without
lowering his standard, or suspending the sound of his brazen
kettle-drum: he again rallied and renewed the charge; and his
preachers or heralds called aloud on the
<strong><em>unitarians</em></strong>, manfully to stand up
against the Christian idolaters. But the progress of these
idolaters was irresistible; and it was only by demolishing the
walls and buildings of Ascalon, that the sultan could prevent
them from occupying an important fortress on the confines of
Egypt. During a severe winter, the armies slept; but in the
spring, the Franks advanced within a day's march of Jerusalem,
under the leading standard of the English king; and his active
spirit intercepted a convoy, or caravan, of seven thousand
camels. Saladin ^75 had fixed his station in the holy city; but
the city was struck with consternation and discord: he fasted; he
prayed; he preached; he offered to share the dangers of the
siege; but his Mamalukes, who remembered the fate of their
companions at Acre, pressed the sultan with loyal or seditious
clamors, to reserve <strong><em>his</em></strong> person and
<strong><em>their</em></strong> courage for the future defence of
the religion and empire. ^76 The Moslems were delivered by the
sudden, or, as they deemed, the miraculous, retreat of the
Christians; ^77 and the laurels of Richard were blasted by the
prudence, or envy, of his companions. The hero, ascending a hill,
and veiling his face, exclaimed with an indignant voice, "Those
who are unwilling to rescue, are unworthy to view, the sepulchre
of Christ!" After his return to Acre, on the news that Jaffa was
surprised by the sultan, he sailed with some merchant vessels,
and leaped foremost on the beach: the castle was relieved by his
presence; and sixty thousand Turks and Saracens fled before his
arms. The discovery of his weakness, provoked them to return in
the morning; and they found him carelessly encamped before the
gates with only seventeen knights and three hundred archers.
Without counting their numbers, he sustained their charge; and we
learn from the evidence of his enemies, that the king of England,
grasping his lance, rode furiously along their front, from the
right to the left wing, without meeting an adversary who dared to
encounter his career. ^78 Am I writing the history of Orlando or
Amadis?</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: Magnus hic apud eos, interque reges eorum tum
virtute tum majestate eminens . . . . summus rerum arbiter,
(Bohadin, p. 159.) He does not seem to have known the names
either of Philip or Richard.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: Rex Angli&aelig;, pr&aelig;strenuus . . . . rege
Gallorum minor apud eos censebatur ratione regni atque
dignitatis; sed tum divitiis florentior, tum bellic&acirc;
virtute multo erat celebrior, (Bohadin, p. 161.) A stranger might
admire those riches; the national historians will tell with what
lawless and wasteful oppression they were collected.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: Joinville, p. 17. Cuides-tu que ce soit le roi
Richart?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: Yet he was guilty in the opinion of the Moslems,
who attest the confession of the assassins, that they were sent
by the king of England, (Bohadin, p. 225;) and his only defence
is an absurd and palpable forgery, (Hist. de l'Acad&eacute;mie
des Inscriptions, tom. xv. p. 155--163,) a pretended letter from
the prince of the assassins, the Sheich, or old man of the
mountain, who justified Richard, by assuming to himself the guilt
or merit of the murder. *</p>

<p>Note: * Von Hammer (Geschichte der Assassinen, p. 202) sums up
against Richard, Wilken (vol. iv. p. 485) as strongly for
acquittal. Michaud (vol. ii. p. 420) delivers no decided opinion.
This crime was also attributed to Saladin, who is said, by an
Oriental authority, (the continuator of Tabari,) to have employed
the assassins to murder both Conrad and Richard. It is a
melancholy admission, but it must be acknowledged, that such an
act would be less inconsistent with the character of the
Christian than of the Mahometan king. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: See the distress and pious firmness of Saladin,
as they are described by Bohadin, (p. 7--9, 235--237,) who
himself harangued the defenders of Jerusalem; their fears were
not unknown to the enemy, (Jacob. &agrave; Vitriaco, l. i. c.
100, p. 1123. Vinisauf, l. v. c. 50, p. 399.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: Yet unless the sultan, or an Ayoubite prince,
remained in Jerusalem, nec Curdi Turcis, nec Turci essent
obtemperaturi Curdis, (Bohadin, p. 236.) He draws aside a corner
of the political curtain.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: Bohadin, (p. 237,) and even Jeffrey de Vinisauf,
(l. vi. c. 1--8, p. 403--409,) ascribe the retreat to Richard
himself; and Jacobus &agrave; Vitriaco observes, that in his
impatience to depart, in alterum virum mutatus est, (p. 1123.)
Yet Joinville, a French knight, accuses the envy of Hugh duke of
Burgundy, (p. 116,) without supposing, like Matthew Paris, that
he was bribed by Saladin.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: The expeditions to Ascalon, Jerusalem, and
Jaffa, are related by Bohadin (p. 184--249) and Abulfeda, (p. 51,
52.) The author of the Itinerary, or the monk of St. Alban's,
cannot exaggerate the cadhi's account of the prowess of Richard,
(Vinisauf, l. vi. c. 14--24, p. 412--421. Hist. Major, p.
137--143;) and on the whole of this war there is a marvellous
agreement between the Christian and Mahometan writers, who
mutually praise the virtues of their enemies.]</p>

<p>During these hostilities, a languid and tedious negotiation
^79 between the Franks and Moslems was started, and continued,
and broken, and again resumed, and again broken. Some acts of
royal courtesy, the gift of snow and fruit, the exchange of
Norway hawks and Arabian horses, softened the asperity of
religious war: from the vicissitude of success, the monarchs
might learn to suspect that Heaven was neutral in the quarrel;
nor, after the trial of each other, could either hope for a
decisive victory. ^80 The health both of Richard and Saladin
appeared to be in a declining state; and they respectively
suffered the evils of distant and domestic warfare: Plantagenet
was impatient to punish a perfidious rival who had invaded
Normandy in his absence; and the indefatigable sultan was subdued
by the cries of the people, who was the victim, and of the
soldiers, who were the instruments, of his martial zeal. The
first demands of the king of England were the restitution of
Jerusalem, Palestine, and the true cross; and he firmly declared,
that himself and his brother pilgrims would end their lives in
the pious labor, rather than return to Europe with ignominy and
remorse. But the conscience of Saladin refused, without some
weighty compensation, to restore the idols, or promote the
idolatry, of the Christians; he asserted, with equal firmness,
his religious and civil claim to the sovereignty of Palestine;
descanted on the importance and sanctity of Jerusalem; and
rejected all terms of the establishment, or partition of the
Latins. The marriage which Richard proposed, of his sister with
the sultan's brother, was defeated by the difference of faith;
the princess abhorred the embraces of a Turk; and Adel, or
Saphadin, would not easily renounce a plurality of wives. A
personal interview was declined by Saladin, who alleged their
mutual ignorance of each other's language; and the negotiation
was managed with much art and delay by their interpreters and
envoys. The final agreement was equally disapproved by the
zealots of both parties, by the Roman pontiff and the caliph of
Bagdad. It was stipulated that Jerusalem and the holy sepulchre
should be open, without tribute or vexation, to the pilgrimage of
the Latin Christians; that, after the demolition of Ascalon, they
should inclusively possess the sea-coast from Jaffa to Tyre; that
the count of Tripoli and the prince of Antioch should be
comprised in the truce; and that, during three years and three
months, all hostilities should cease. The principal chiefs of the
two armies swore to the observance of the treaty; but the
monarchs were satisfied with giving their word and their right
hand; and the royal majesty was excused from an oath, which
always implies some suspicion of falsehood and dishonor. Richard
embarked for Europe, to seek a long captivity and a premature
grave; and the space of a few months concluded the life and
glories of Saladin. The Orientals describe his edifying death,
which happened at Damascus; but they seem ignorant of the equal
distribution of his alms among the three religions, ^81 or of the
display of a shroud, instead of a standard, to admonish the East
of the instability of human greatness. The unity of empire was
dissolved by his death; his sons were oppressed by the stronger
arm of their uncle Saphadin; the hostile interests of the sultans
of Egypt, Damascus, and Aleppo, ^82 were again revived; and the
Franks or Latins stood and breathed, and hoped, in their
fortresses along the Syrian coast.</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: See the progress of negotiation and hostility in
Bohadin, (p. 207--260,) who was himself an actor in the treaty.
Richard declared his intention of returning with new armies to
the conquest of the Holy Land; and Saladin answered the menace
with a civil compliment, (Vinisauf l. vi. c. 28, p. 423.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: The most copious and original account of this
holy war is Galfridi &agrave; Vinisauf, Itinerarium Regis
Anglorum Richardi et aliorum in Terram Hierosolymorum, in six
books, published in the iid volume of Gale's Scriptores Hist.
Anglican&aelig;, (p. 247--429.) Roger Hoveden and Matthew Paris
afford likewise many valuable materials; and the former
describes, with accuracy, the discipline and navigation of the
English fleet.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: Even Vertot (tom. i. p. 251) adopts the foolish
notion of the indifference of Saladin, who professed the Koran
with his last breath.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: See the succession of the Ayoubites, in
Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 277, &amp;c.,) and the tables of M. De
Guignes, l'Art de V&eacute;rifier les Dates, and the
Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale.]</p>

<p>The noblest monument of a conqueror's fame, and of the terror
which he inspired, is the Saladine tenth, a general tax which was
imposed on the laity, and even the clergy, of the Latin church,
for the service of the holy war. The practice was too lucrative
to expire with the occasion: and this tribute became the
foundation of all the tithes and tenths on ecclesiastical
benefices, which have been granted by the Roman pontiffs to
Catholic sovereigns, or reserved for the immediate use of the
apostolic see. ^83 This pecuniary emolument must have tended to
increase the interest of the popes in the recovery of Palestine:
after the death of Saladin, they preached the crusade, by their
epistles, their legates, and their missionaries; and the
accomplishment of the pious work might have been expected from
the zeal and talents of Innocent the Third. ^84 Under that young
and ambitious priest, the successors of St. Peter attained the
full meridian of their greatness: and in a reign of eighteen
years, he exercised a despotic command over the emperors and
kings, whom he raised and deposed; over the nations, whom an
interdict of months or years deprived, for the offence of their
rulers, of the exercise of Christian worship. In the council of
the Lateran he acted as the ecclesiastical, almost as the
temporal, sovereign of the East and West. It was at the feet of
his legate that John of England surrendered his crown; and
Innocent may boast of the two most signal triumphs over sense and
humanity, the establishment of transubstantiation, and the origin
of the inquisition. At his voice, two crusades, the fourth and
the fifth, were undertaken; but, except a king of Hungary, the
princes of the second order were at the head of the pilgrims: the
forces were inadequate to the design; nor did the effects
correspond with the hopes and wishes of the pope and the people.
The fourth crusade was diverted from Syria to Constantinople; and
the conquest of the Greek or Roman empire by the Latins will form
the proper and important subject of the next chapter. In the
fifth, ^85 two hundred thousand Franks were landed at the eastern
mouth of the Nile. They reasonably hoped that Palestine must be
subdued in Egypt, the seat and storehouse of the sultan; and,
after a siege of sixteen months, the Moslems deplored the loss of
Damietta. But the Christian army was ruined by the pride and
insolence of the legate Pelagius, who, in the pope's name,
assumed the character of general: the sickly Franks were
encompassed by the waters of the Nile and the Oriental forces;
and it was by the evacuation of Damietta that they obtained a
safe retreat, some concessions for the pilgrims, and the tardy
restitution of the doubtful relic of the true cross. The failure
may in some measure be ascribed to the abuse and multiplication
of the crusades, which were preached at the same time against the
Pagans of Livonia, the Moors of Spain, the Albigeois of France,
and the kings of Sicily of the Imperial family. ^86 In these
meritorious services, the volunteers might acquire at home the
same spiritual indulgence, and a larger measure of temporal
rewards; and even the popes, in their zeal against a domestic
enemy, were sometimes tempted to forget the distress of their
Syrian brethren. From the last age of the crusades they derived
the occasional command of an army and revenue; and some deep
reasoners have suspected that the whole enterprise, from the
first synod of Placentia, was contrived and executed by the
policy of Rome. The suspicion is not founded, either in nature or
in fact. The successors of St. Peter appear to have followed,
rather than guided, the impulse of manners and prejudice; without
much foresight of the seasons, or cultivation of the soil, they
gathered the ripe and spontaneous fruits of the superstition of
the times. They gathered these fruits without toil or personal
danger: in the council of the Lateran, Innocent the Third
declared an ambiguous resolution of animating the crusaders by
his example; but the pilot of the sacred vessel could not abandon
the helm; nor was Palestine ever blessed with the presence of a
Roman pontiff. ^87</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: Thomassin (Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. iii. p.
311--374) has copiously treated of the origin, abuses, and
restrictions of these <strong><em>tenths</em></strong>. A theory
was started, but not pursued, that they were rightfully due to
the pope, a tenth of the Levite's tenth to the high priest,
(Selden on Tithes; see his Works, vol. iii. p. ii. p. 1083.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: See the Gesta Innocentii III. in Murat. Script.
Rer. Ital., (tom. iii. p. 486--568.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta,
in Jacobus &agrave; Vitriaco, (l. iii. p. 1125--1149, in the
Gesta Dei of Bongarsius,) an eye-witness, Bernard Thesaurarius,
(in Script. Muratori, tom. vii. p. 825--846, c. 190--207,) a
contemporary, and Sanutus, (Secreta Fidel Crucis, l. iii. p. xi.
c. 4--9,) a diligent compiler; and of the Arabians Abulpharagius,
(Dynast. p. 294,) and the Extracts at the end of Joinville, (p.
533, 537, 540, 547, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: To those who took the cross against Mainfroy,
the pope (A.D. 1255) granted plenissimam peccatorum remissionem.
Fideles mirabantur qu&ograve;d tantum eis promitteret pro
sanguine Christianorum effundendo quantum pro cruore infidelium
aliquando, (Matthew Paris p. 785.) A high flight for the reason
of the xiiith century.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: This simple idea is agreeable to the good sense
of Mosheim, (Institut. Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. p. 332,) and the fine
philosophy of Hume, (Hist. of England, vol. i. p. 330.)]</p>

<p>The persons, the families, and estates of the pilgrims, were
under the immediate protection of the popes; and these spiritual
patrons soon claimed the prerogative of directing their
operations, and enforcing, by commands and censures, the
accomplishment of their vow. Frederic the Second, ^88 the
grandson of Barbarossa, was successively the pupil, the enemy,
and the victim of the church. At the age of twenty-one years, and
in obedience to his guardian Innocent the Third, he assumed the
cross; the same promise was repeated at his royal and imperial
coronations; and his marriage with the heiress of Jerusalem
forever bound him to defend the kingdom of his son Conrad. But as
Frederic advanced in age and authority, he repented of the rash
engagements of his youth: his liberal sense and knowledge taught
him to despise the phantoms of superstition and the crowns of
Asia: he no longer entertained the same reverence for the
successors of Innocent: and his ambition was occupied by the
restoration of the Italian monarchy from Sicily to the Alps. But
the success of this project would have reduced the popes to their
primitive simplicity; and, after the delays and excuses of twelve
years, they urged the emperor, with entreaties and threats, to
fix the time and place of his departure for Palestine. In the
harbors of Sicily and Apulia, he prepared a fleet of one hundred
galleys, and of one hundred vessels, that were framed to
transport and land two thousand five hundred knights, with their
horses and attendants; his vassals of Naples and Germany formed a
powerful army; and the number of English crusaders was magnified
to sixty thousand by the report of fame. But the inevitable or
affected slowness of these mighty preparations consumed the
strength and provisions of the more indigent pilgrims: the
multitude was thinned by sickness and desertion; and the sultry
summer of Calabria anticipated the mischiefs of a Syrian
campaign. At length the emperor hoisted sail at Brundusium, with
a fleet and army of forty thousand men: but he kept the sea no
more than three days; and his hasty retreat, which was ascribed
by his friends to a grievous indisposition, was accused by his
enemies as a voluntary and obstinate disobedience. For suspending
his vow was Frederic excommunicated by Gregory the Ninth; for
presuming, the next year, to accomplish his vow, he was again
excommunicated by the same pope. ^89 While he served under the
banner of the cross, a crusade was preached against him in Italy;
and after his return he was compelled to ask pardon for the
injuries which he had suffered. The clergy and military orders of
Palestine were previously instructed to renounce his communion
and dispute his commands; and in his own kingdom, the emperor was
forced to consent that the orders of the camp should be issued in
the name of God and of the Christian republic. Frederic entered
Jerusalem in triumph; and with his own hands (for no priest would
perform the office) he took the crown from the altar of the holy
sepulchre. But the patriarch cast an interdict on the church
which his presence had profaned; and the knights of the hospital
and temple informed the sultan how easily he might be surprised
and slain in his unguarded visit to the River Jordan. In such a
state of fanaticism and faction, victory was hopeless, and
defence was difficult; but the conclusion of an advantageous
peace may be imputed to the discord of the Mahometans, and their
personal esteem for the character of Frederic. The enemy of the
church is accused of maintaining with the miscreants an
intercourse of hospitality and friendship unworthy of a
Christian; of despising the barrenness of the land; and of
indulging a profane thought, that if Jehovah had seen the kingdom
of Naples he never would have selected Palestine for the
inheritance of his chosen people. Yet Frederic obtained from the
sultan the restitution of Jerusalem, of Bethlem and Nazareth, of
Tyre and Sidon; the Latins were allowed to inhabit and fortify
the city; an equal code of civil and religious freedom was
ratified for the sectaries of Jesus and those of Mahomet; and,
while the former worshipped at the holy sepulchre, the latter
might pray and preach in the mosque of the temple, ^90 from
whence the prophet undertook his nocturnal journey to heaven. The
clergy deplored this scandalous toleration; and the weaker
Moslems were gradually expelled; but every rational object of the
crusades was accomplished without bloodshed; the churches were
restored, the monasteries were replenished; and, in the space of
fifteen years, the Latins of Jerusalem exceeded the number of six
thousand. This peace and prosperity, for which they were
ungrateful to their benefactor, was terminated by the irruption
of the strange and savage hordes of Carizmians. ^91 Flying from
the arms of the Moguls, those shepherds ^* of the Caspian rolled
headlong on Syria; and the union of the Franks with the sultans
of Aleppo, Hems, and Damascus, was insufficient to stem the
violence of the torrent. Whatever stood against them was cut off
by the sword, or dragged into captivity: the military orders were
almost exterminated in a single battle; and in the pillage of the
city, in the profanation of the holy sepulchre, the Latins
confess and regret the modesty and discipline of the Turks and
Saracens.</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: The original materials for the crusade of
Frederic II. may be drawn from Richard de St. Germano (in
Muratori, Script. Rerum Ital. tom. vii. p. 1002--1013) and
Matthew Paris, (p. 286, 291, 300, 302, 304.) The most rational
moderns are Fleury, (Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xvi.,) Vertot,
(Chevaliers de Malthe, tom. i. l. iii.,) Giannone, (Istoria
Civile di Napoli, tom. ii. l. xvi.,) and Muratori, (Annali d'
Italia, tom. x.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: Poor Muratori knows what to think, but knows not
what to say: "Chino qui il capo,' &amp;c. p. 322.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: The clergy artfully confounded the mosque or
church of the temple with the holy sepulchre, and their wilful
error has deceived both Vertot and Muratori.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: The irruption of the Carizmians, or Corasmins,
is related by Matthew Paris, (p. 546, 547,) and by Joinville,
Nangis, and the Arabians, (p. 111, 112, 191, 192, 528, 530.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: They were in alliance with Eyub, sultan of Syria.
Wilken vol. vi. p. 630. -- M.]</p>

<p>Of the seven crusades, the two last were undertaken by Louis
the Ninth, king of France; who lost his liberty in Egypt, and his
life on the coast of Africa. Twenty-eight years after his death,
he was canonized at Rome; and sixty-five miracles were readily
found, and solemnly attested, to justify the claim of the royal
saint. ^92 The voice of history renders a more honorable
testimony, that he united the virtues of a king, a hero, and a
man; that his martial spirit was tempered by the love of private
and public justice; and that Louis was the father of his people,
the friend of his neighbors, and the terror of the infidels.
Superstition alone, in all the extent of her baleful influence,
^93 corrupted his understanding and his heart: his devotion
stooped to admire and imitate the begging friars of Francis and
Dominic: he pursued with blind and cruel zeal the enemies of the
faith; and the best of kings twice descended from his throne to
seek the adventures of a spiritual knight-errant. A monkish
historian would have been content to applaud the most despicable
part of his character; but the noble and gallant Joinville, ^94
who shared the friendship and captivity of Louis, has traced with
the pencil of nature the free portrait of his virtues as well as
of his failings. From this intimate knowledge we may learn to
suspect the political views of depressing their great vassals,
which are so often imputed to the royal authors of the crusades.
Above all the princes of the middle ages, Louis the Ninth
successfully labored to restore the prerogatives of the crown;
but it was at home and not in the East, that he acquired for
himself and his posterity: his vow was the result of enthusiasm
and sickness; and if he were the promoter, he was likewise the
victim, of his holy madness. For the invasion of Egypt, France
was exhausted of her troops and treasures; he covered the sea of
Cyprus with eighteen hundred sails; the most modest enumeration
amounts to fifty thousand men; and, if we might trust his own
confession, as it is reported by Oriental vanity, he disembarked
nine thousand five hundred horse, and one hundred and thirty
thousand foot, who performed their pilgrimage under the shadow of
his power. ^95</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: Read, if you can, the Life and Miracles of St.
Louis, by the confessor of Queen Margaret, (p. 291--523.
Joinville, du Louvre.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: He believed all that mother church taught,
(Joinville, p. 10,) but he cautioned Joinville against disputing
with infidels. "L'omme lay (said he in his old language) quand il
ot medire de la loi Crestienne, ne doit pas deffendre la loi
Crestienne ne mais que de l'esp&eacute;e, dequoi il doit donner
parmi le ventre dedens, tant comme elle y peut entrer' (p.
12.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: I have two editions of Joinville, the one
(Paris, 1668) most valuable for the observations of Ducange; the
other (Paris, au Louvre, 1761) most precious for the pure and
authentic text, a MS. of which has been recently discovered. The
last edition proves that the history of St. Louis was finished
A.D. 1309, without explaining, or even admiring, the age of the
author, which must have exceeded ninety years, (Preface, p. x.
Observations de Ducange, p. 17.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: Joinville, p. 32. Arabic Extracts, p. 549. *</p>

<p>Note: * Compare Wilken, vol. vii. p. 94. -- M.]</p>

<p>In complete armor, the oriflamme waving before him, Louis
leaped foremost on the beach; and the strong city of Damietta,
which had cost his predecessors a siege of sixteen months, was
abandoned on the first assault by the trembling Moslems. But
Damietta was the first and the last of his conquests; and in the
fifth and sixth crusades, the same causes, almost on the same
ground, were productive of similar calamities. ^96 After a
ruinous delay, which introduced into the camp the seeds of an
epidemic disease, the Franks advanced from the sea-coast towards
the capital of Egypt, and strove to surmount the unseasonable
inundation of the Nile, which opposed their progress. Under the
eye of their intrepid monarch, the barons and knights of France
displayed their invincible contempt of danger and discipline: his
brother, the count of Artois, stormed with inconsiderate valor
the town of Massoura; and the carrier pigeons announced to the
inhabitants of Cairo that all was lost. But a soldier, who
afterwards usurped the sceptre, rallied the flying troops: the
main body of the Christians was far behind the vanguard; and
Artois was overpowered and slain. A shower of Greek fire was
incessantly poured on the invaders; the Nile was commanded by the
Egyptian galleys, the open country by the Arabs; all provisions
were intercepted; each day aggravated the sickness and famine;
and about the same time a retreat was found to be necessary and
impracticable. The Oriental writers confess, that Louis might
have escaped, if he would have deserted his subjects; he was made
prisoner, with the greatest part of his nobles; all who could not
redeem their lives by service or ransom were inhumanly massacred;
and the walls of Cairo were decorated with a circle of Christian
heads. ^97 The king of France was loaded with chains; but the
generous victor, a great-grandson of the brother of Saladin, sent
a robe of honor to his royal captive, and his deliverance, with
that of his soldiers, was obtained by the restitution of Damietta
^98 and the payment of four hundred thousand pieces of gold. In a
soft and luxurious climate, the degenerate children of the
companions of Noureddin and Saladin were incapable of resisting
the flower of European chivalry: they triumphed by the arms of
their slaves or Mamalukes, the hardy natives of Tartary, who at a
tender age had been purchased of the Syrian merchants, and were
educated in the camp and palace of the sultan. But Egypt soon
afforded a new example of the danger of pr&aelig;torian bands;
and the rage of these ferocious animals, who had been let loose
on the strangers, was provoked to devour their benefactor. In the
pride of conquest, Touran Shaw, the last of his race, was
murdered by his Mamalukes; and the most daring of the assassins
entered the chamber of the captive king, with drawn cimeters, and
their hands imbrued in the blood of their sultan. The firmness of
Louis commanded their respect; ^99 their avarice prevailed over
cruelty and zeal; the treaty was accomplished; and the king of
France, with the relics of his army, was permitted to embark for
Palestine. He wasted four years within the walls of Acre, unable
to visit Jerusalem, and unwilling to return without glory to his
native country.</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: The last editors have enriched their Joinville
with large and curious extracts from the Arabic historians,
Macrizi, Abulfeda, &amp;c. See likewise Abulpharagius, (Dynast.
p. 322--325,) who calls him by the corrupt name of
<strong><em>Redefrans</em></strong>. Matthew Paris (p. 683, 684)
has described the rival folly of the French and English who
fought and fell at Massoura.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: Savary, in his agreeable Letters sur L'Egypte,
has given a description of Damietta, (tom. i. lettre xxiii. p.
274--290,) and a narrative of the exposition of St. Louis, (xxv.
p. 306--350.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 98: For the ransom of St. Louis, a million of
byzants was asked and granted; but the sultan's generosity
reduced that sum to 800,000 byzants, which are valued by
Joinville at 400,000 French livres of his own time, and expressed
by Matthew Paris by 100,000 marks of silver, (Ducange,
Dissertation xx. sur Joinville.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 99: The idea of the emirs to choose Louis for their
sultan is seriously attested by Joinville, (p. 77, 78,) and does
not appear to me so absurd as to M. de Voltaire, (Hist.
G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, tom. ii. p. 386, 387.) The Mamalukes
themselves were strangers, rebels, and equals: they had felt his
valor, they hoped his conversion; and such a motion, which was
not seconded, might be made, perhaps by a secret Christian in
their tumultuous assembly. *</p>

<p>Note: * Wilken, vol. vii. p. 257, thinks the proposition could
not have been made in earnest. -- M.]</p>

<p>The memory of his defeat excited Louis, after sixteen years of
wisdom and repose, to undertake the seventh and last of the
crusades. His finances were restored, his kingdom was enlarged; a
new generation of warriors had arisen, and he advanced with fresh
confidence at the head of six thousand horse and thirty thousand
foot. The loss of Antioch had provoked the enterprise; a wild
hope of baptizing the king of Tunis tempted him to steer for the
African coast; and the report of an immense treasure reconciled
his troops to the delay of their voyage to the Holy Land. Instead
of a proselyte, he found a siege: the French panted and died on
the burning sands: St. Louis expired in his tent; and no sooner
had he closed his eyes, than his son and successor gave the
signal of the retreat. ^100 "It is thus," says a lively writer,
"that a Christian king died near the ruins of Carthage, waging
war against the sectaries of Mahomet, in a land to which Dido had
introduced the deities of Syria." ^101</p>

<p>[Footnote 100: See the expedition in the annals of St. Louis,
by William de Nangis, p. 270--287; and the Arabic extracts, p.
545, 555, of the Louvre edition of Joinville.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 101: Voltaire, Hist. G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, tom.
ii. p. 391.]</p>

<p>A more unjust and absurd constitution cannot be devised than
that which condemns the natives of a country to perpetual
servitude, under the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves.
Yet such has been the state of Egypt above five hundred years.
The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite
dynasties ^102 were themselves promoted from the Tartar and
Circassian bands; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military
chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their
servants. They produce the great charter of their liberties, the
treaty of Selim the First with the republic: ^103 and the Othman
emperor still accepts from Egypt a slight acknowledgment of
tribute and subjection. With some breathing intervals of peace
and order, the two dynasties are marked as a period of rapine and
bloodshed: ^104 but their throne, however shaken, reposed on the
two pillars of discipline and valor: their sway extended over
Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, and Syria: their Mamalukes were multiplied
from eight hundred to twenty-five thousand horse; and their
numbers were increased by a provincial militia of one hundred and
seven thousand foot, and the occasional aid of sixty-six thousand
Arabs. ^105 Princes of such power and spirit could not long
endure on their coast a hostile and independent nation; and if
the ruin of the Franks was postponed about forty years, they were
indebted to the cares of an unsettled reign, to the invasion of
the Moguls, and to the occasional aid of some warlike pilgrims.
Among these, the English reader will observe the name of our
first Edward, who assumed the cross in the lifetime of his father
Henry. At the head of a thousand soldiers the future conqueror of
Wales and Scotland delivered Acre from a siege; marched as far as
Nazareth with an army of nine thousand men; emulated the fame of
his uncle Richard; extorted, by his valor, a ten years' truce; ^*
and escaped, with a dangerous wound, from the dagger of a fanatic
<strong><em>assassin</em></strong>. ^106 ^! Antioch, ^107 whose
situation had been less exposed to the calamities of the holy
war, was finally occupied and ruined by Bondocdar, or Bibars,
sultan of Egypt and Syria; the Latin principality was
extinguished; and the first seat of the Christian name was
dispeopled by the slaughter of seventeen, and the captivity of
one hundred, thousand of her inhabitants. The maritime towns of
Laodicea, Gabala, Tripoli, Berytus, Sidon, Tyre and Jaffa, and
the stronger castles of the Hospitallers and Templars,
successively fell; and the whole existence of the Franks was
confined to the city and colony of St. John of Acre, which is
sometimes described by the more classic title of Ptolemais.</p>

<p>[Footnote 102: The chronology of the two dynasties of
Mamalukes, the Baharites, Turks or Tartars of Kipzak, and the
Borgites, Circassians, is given by Pocock (Prolegom. ad
Abulpharag. p. 6--31) and De Guignes (tom. i. p. 264--270;) their
history from Abulfeda, Macrizi, &amp;c., to the beginning of the
xvth century, by the same M. De Guignes, (tom. iv. p.
110--328.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 103: Savary, Lettres sur l'Egypte, tom. ii. lettre
xv. p. 189--208. I much question the authenticity of this copy;
yet it is true, that Sultan Selim concluded a treaty with the
Circassians or Mamalukes of Egypt, and left them in possession of
arms, riches, and power. See a new Abr&eacute;g&eacute; de
l'Histoire Ottomane, composed in Egypt, and translated by M.
Digeon, (tom. i. p. 55--58, Paris, 1781,) a curious, authentic,
and national history.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 104: Si totum quo regnum occup&acirc;runt tempus
respicias, pr&aelig;sertim quod fini propius, reperies illud
bellis, pugnis, injuriis, ac rapinis refertum, (Al Jannabi, apud
Pocock, p. 31.) The reign of Mohammed (A.D. 1311--1341) affords a
happy exception, (De Guignes, tom. iv. p. 208--210.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 105: They are now reduced to 8500: but the expense
of each Mamaluke may be rated at a hundred louis: and Egypt
groans under the avarice and insolence of these strangers,
(Voyages de Volney, tom. i. p. 89--187.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Gibbon colors rather highly the success of
Edward. Wilken is more accurate vol. vii. p. 593, &amp;c. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 106: See Carte's History of England, vol. ii. p.
165--175, and his original authors, Thomas Wikes and Walter
Hemingford, (l. iii. c. 34, 35,) in Gale's Collection, tom. ii.
p. 97, 589--592.) They are both ignorant of the princess
Eleanor's piety in sucking the poisoned wound, and saving her
husband at the risk of her own life.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: The sultan Bibars was concerned in this attempt
at assassination Wilken, vol. vii. p. 602. Ptolem&aelig;us
Lucensis is the earliest authority for the devotion of Eleanora.
Ibid. 605. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 107: Sanutus, Secret. Fidelium Crucis, 1. iii. p.
xii. c. 9, and De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 143, from
the Arabic historians.]</p>

<p>After the loss of Jerusalem, Acre, ^108 which is distant about
seventy miles, became the metropolis of the Latin Christians, and
was adorned with strong and stately buildings, with aqueducts, an
artificial port, and a double wall. The population was increased
by the incessant streams of pilgrims and fugitives: in the pauses
of hostility the trade of the East and West was attracted to this
convenient station; and the market could offer the produce of
every clime and the interpreters of every tongue. But in this
conflux of nations, every vice was propagated and practised: of
all the disciples of Jesus and Mahomet, the male and female
inhabitants of Acre were esteemed the most corrupt; nor could the
abuse of religion be corrected by the discipline of law. The city
had many sovereigns, and no government. The kings of Jerusalem
and Cyprus, of the house of Lusignan, the princes of Antioch, the
counts of Tripoli and Sidon, the great masters of the hospital,
the temple, and the Teutonic order, the republics of Venice,
Genoa, and Pisa, the pope's legate, the kings of France and
England, assumed an independent command: seventeen tribunals
exercised the power of life and death; every criminal was
protected in the adjacent quarter; and the perpetual jealousy of
the nations often burst forth in acts of violence and blood. Some
adventurers, who disgraced the ensign of the cross, compensated
their want of pay by the plunder of the Mahometan villages:
nineteen Syrian merchants, who traded under the public faith,
were despoiled and hanged by the Christians; and the denial of
satisfaction justified the arms of the sultan Khalil. He marched
against Acre, at the head of sixty thousand horse and one hundred
and forty thousand foot: his train of artillery (if I may use the
word) was numerous and weighty: the separate timbers of a single
engine were transported in one hundred wagons; and the royal
historian Abulfeda, who served with the troops of Hamah, was
himself a spectator of the holy war. Whatever might be the vices
of the Franks, their courage was rekindled by enthusiasm and
despair; but they were torn by the discord of seventeen chiefs,
and overwhelmed on all sides by the powers of the sultan. After a
siege of thirty three days, the double wall was forced by the
Moslems; the principal tower yielded to their engines; the
Mamalukes made a general assault; the city was stormed; and death
or slavery was the lot of sixty thousand Christians. The convent,
or rather fortress, of the Templars resisted three days longer;
but the great master was pierced with an arrow; and, of five
hundred knights, only ten were left alive, less happy than the
victims of the sword, if they lived to suffer on a scaffold, in
the unjust and cruel proscription of the whole order. The king of
Jerusalem, the patriarch and the great master of the hospital,
effected their retreat to the shore; but the sea was rough, the
vessels were insufficient; and great numbers of the fugitives
were drowned before they could reach the Isle of Cyprus, which
might comfort Lusignan for the loss of Palestine. By the command
of the sultan, the churches and fortifications of the Latin
cities were demolished: a motive of avarice or fear still opened
the holy sepulchre to some devout and defenceless pilgrims; and a
mournful and solitary silence prevailed along the coast which had
so long resounded with the world's debate. ^109</p>

<p>[Footnote 108: The state of Acre is represented in all the
chronicles of te times, and most accurately in John Villani, l.
vii. c. 144, in Muratori, Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, tom. xiii.
337, 338.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 109: See the final expulsion of the Franks, in
Sanutus, l. iii. p. xii. c. 11--22; Abulfeda, Macrizi, &amp;c.,
in De Guignes, tom. iv. p. 162, 164; and Vertot, tom. i. l. iii.
p. 307--428. *</p>

<p>Note: * After these chapters of Gibbon, the masterly prize
composition, "Essai sur 'Influence des Croisades sur l'Europe,
par A H. L. Heeren: traduit de l'Allemand par Charles Villars,
Paris, 1808,' or the original German, in Heeren's "Vermischte
Schriften," may be read with great advantage. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LX: The Fourth Crusade.</strong>
<strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Schism Of The Greeks And Latins. -- State Of Constantinople.
-- Revolt Of The Bulgarians. -- Isaac Angelus Dethroned By His
Brother Alexius. -- Origin Of The Fourth Crusade. -- Alliance Of
The French And Venetians With The Son Of Isaac. -- Their Naval
Expedition To Constantinople. -- The Two Sieges And Final
Conquest Of The City By The Latins.</p>

<p>The restoration of the Western empire by Charlemagne was
speedily followed by the separation of the Greek and Latin
churches. ^1 A religious and national animosity still divides the
two largest communions of the Christian world; and the schism of
Constantinople, by alienating her most useful allies, and
provoking her most dangerous enemies, has precipitated the
decline and fall of the Roman empire in the East.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: In the successive centuries, from the ixth to the
xviiith, Mosheim traces the schism of the Greeks with learning,
clearness, and impartiality; the
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong> (Institut. Hist.
Eccl&eacute;s. p. 277,) Leo III. p. 303 Photius, p. 307, 308.
Michael Cerularius, p. 370, 371, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>In the course of the present History, the aversion of the
Greeks for the Latins has been often visible and conspicuous. It
was originally derived from the disdain of servitude, inflamed,
after the time of Constantine, by the pride of equality or
dominion; and finally exasperated by the preference which their
rebellious subjects had given to the alliance of the Franks. In
every age the Greeks were proud of their superiority in profane
and religious knowledge: they had first received the light of
Christianity; they had pronounced the decrees of the seven
general councils; they alone possessed the language of Scripture
and philosophy; nor should the Barbarians, immersed in the
darkness of the West, ^2 presume to argue on the high and
mysterious questions of theological science. Those Barbarians
despised in then turn the restless and subtile levity of the
Orientals, the authors of every heresy; and blessed their own
simplicity, which was content to hold the tradition of the
apostolic church. Yet in the seventh century, the synods of
Spain, and afterwards of France, improved or corrupted the Nicene
creed, on the mysterious subject of the third person of the
Trinity. ^3 In the long controversies of the East, the nature and
generation of the Christ had been scrupulously defined; and the
well-known relation of father and son seemed to convey a faint
image to the human mind. The idea of birth was less analogous to
the Holy Spirit, who, instead of a divine gift or attribute, was
considered by the Catholics as a substance, a person, a god; he
was not begotten, but in the orthodox style he
<strong><em>proceeded</em></strong>. Did he proceed from the
Father alone, perhaps <strong><em>by</em></strong> the Son? or
from the Father <strong><em>and</em></strong> the Son? The first
of these opinions was asserted by the Greeks, the second by the
Latins; and the addition to the Nicene creed of the word
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong>, kindled the flame of discord
between the Oriental and the Gallic churches. In the origin of
the disputes the Roman pontiffs affected a character of
neutrality and moderation: ^4 they condemned the innovation, but
they acquiesced in the sentiment, of their Transalpine brethren:
they seemed desirous of casting a veil of silence and charity
over the superfluous research; and in the correspondence of
Charlemagne and Leo the Third, the pope assumes the liberality of
a statesman, and the prince descends to the passions and
prejudices of a priest. ^5 But the orthodoxy of Rome
spontaneously obeyed the impulse of the temporal policy; and the
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong>, which Leo wished to erase,
was transcribed in the symbol and chanted in the liturgy of the
Vatican. The Nicene and Athanasian creeds are held as the
Catholic faith, without which none can be saved; and both Papists
and Protestants must now sustain and return the anathemas of the
Greeks, who deny the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son,
as well as from the Father. Such articles of faith are not
susceptible of treaty; but the rules of discipline will vary in
remote and independent churches; and the reason, even of divines,
might allow, that the difference is inevitable and harmless. The
craft or superstition of Rome has imposed on her priests and
deacons the rigid obligation of celibacy; among the Greeks it is
confined to the bishops; the loss is compensated by dignity or
annihilated by age; and the parochial clergy, the papas, enjoy
the conjugal society of the wives whom they have married before
their entrance into holy orders. A question concerning the
<strong><em>Azyms</em></strong> was fiercely debated in the
eleventh century, and the essence of the Eucharist was supposed
in the East and West to depend on the use of leavened or
unleavened bread. Shall I mention in a serious history the
furious reproaches that were urged against the Latins, who for a
long while remained on the defensive? They neglected to abstain,
according to the apostolical decree, from things strangled, and
from blood: they fasted (a Jewish observance!) on the Saturday of
each week: during the first week of Lent they permitted the use
of milk and cheese; ^6 their infirm monks were indulged in the
taste of flesh; and animal grease was substituted for the want of
vegetable oil: the holy chrism or unction in baptism was reserved
to the episcopal order: the bishops, as the bridegrooms of their
churches, were decorated with rings; their priests shaved their
faces, and baptized by a single immersion. Such were the crimes
which provoked the zeal of the patriarchs of Constantinople; and
which were justified with equal zeal by the doctors of the Latin
church. ^7</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: ''AndreV dussebeiV kai apotropaioi, andreV ek
sktouV anadunteV, thV gar 'Esperiou moiraV uphrcon gennhmata,
(Phot. Epist. p. 47, edit. Montacut.) The Oriental patriarch
continues to apply the images of thunder, earthquake, hail, wild
boar, precursors of Antichrist, &amp;c., &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: The mysterious subject of the procession of the
Holy Ghost is discussed in the historical, theological, and
controversial sense, or nonsense, by the Jesuit Petavius.
(Dogmata Theologica, tom. ii. l. vii. p. 362--440.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Before the shrine of St. Peter he placed two
shields of the weight of 94 1/2 pounds of pure silver; on which
he inscribed the text of both creeds, (utroque symbolo,) pro
amore et <strong><em>cautel&acirc;</em></strong> orthodox&aelig;
fidei, (Anastas. in Leon. III. in Muratori, tom. iii. pars. i. p.
208.) His language most clearly proves, that neither the
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong>, nor the Athanasian creed were
received at Rome about the year 830.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: The Missi of Charlemagne pressed him to declare,
that all who rejected the <strong><em>filioque</em></strong>, or
at least the doctrine, must be damned. All, replies the pope, are
not capable of reaching the altiora mysteria qui potuerit, et non
voluerit, salvus esse non potest, (Collect. Concil. tom. ix. p.
277--286.) The <strong><em>potuerit</em></strong> would leave a
large loophole of salvation!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: In France, after some harsher laws, the
ecclesiastical discipline is now relaxed: milk, cheese, and
butter, are become a perpetual, and eggs an annual, indulgence in
Lent, (Vie priv&eacute;e des Fran&ccedil;ois, tom. ii. p.
27--38.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: The original monuments of the schism, of the
charges of the Greeks against the Latins, are deposited in the
epistles of Photius, (Epist Encyclica, ii. p. 47--61,) and of
Michael Cerularius, (Canisii Antiq. Lectiones, tom. iii. p. i. p.
281--324, edit. Basnage, with the prolix answer of Cardinal
Humbert.)]</p>

<p>Bigotry and national aversion are powerful magnifiers of every
object of dispute; but the immediate cause of the schism of the
Greeks may be traced in the emulation of the leading prelates,
who maintained the supremacy of the old metropolis superior to
all, and of the reigning capital, inferior to none, in the
Christian world. About the middle of the ninth century, Photius,
^8 an ambitious layman, the captain of the guards and principal
secretary, was promoted by merit and favor to the more desirable
office of patriarch of Constantinople. In science, even
ecclesiastical science, he surpassed the clergy of the age; and
the purity of his morals has never been impeached: but his
ordination was hasty, his rise was irregular; and Ignatius, his
abdicated predecessor, was yet supported by the public compassion
and the obstinacy of his adherents. They appealed to the tribunal
of Nicholas the First, one of the proudest and most aspiring of
the Roman pontiffs, who embraced the welcome opportunity of
judging and condemning his rival of the East. Their quarrel was
embittered by a conflict of jurisdiction over the king and nation
of the Bulgarians; nor was their recent conversion to
Christianity of much avail to either prelate, unless he could
number the proselytes among the subjects of his power. With the
aid of his court the Greek patriarch was victorious; but in the
furious contest he deposed in his turn the successor of St.
Peter, and involved the Latin church in the reproach of heresy
and schism. Photius sacrificed the peace of the world to a short
and precarious reign: he fell with his patron, the C&aelig;sar
Bardas; and Basil the Macedonian performed an act of justice in
the restoration of Ignatius, whose age and dignity had not been
sufficiently respected. From his monastery, or prison, Photius
solicited the favor of the emperor by pathetic complaints and
artful flattery; and the eyes of his rival were scarcely closed,
when he was again restored to the throne of Constantinople. After
the death of Basil he experienced the vicissitudes of courts and
the ingratitude of a royal pupil: the patriarch was again
deposed, and in his last solitary hours he might regret the
freedom of a secular and studious life. In each revolution, the
breath, the nod, of the sovereign had been accepted by a
submissive clergy; and a synod of three hundred bishops was
always prepared to hail the triumph, or to stigmatize the fall,
of the holy, or the execrable, Photius. ^9 By a delusive promise
of succor or reward, the popes were tempted to countenance these
various proceedings; and the synods of Constantinople were
ratified by their epistles or legates. But the court and the
people, Ignatius and Photius, were equally adverse to their
claims; their ministers were insulted or imprisoned; the
procession of the Holy Ghost was forgotten; Bulgaria was forever
annexed to the Byzantine throne; and the schism was prolonged by
their rigid censure of all the multiplied ordinations of an
irregular patriarch. The darkness and corruption of the tenth
century suspended the intercourse, without reconciling the minds,
of the two nations. But when the Norman sword restored the
churches of Apulia to the jurisdiction of Rome, the departing
flock was warned, by a petulant epistle of the Greek patriarch,
to avoid and abhor the errors of the Latins. The rising majesty
of Rome could no longer brook the insolence of a rebel; and
Michael Cerularius was excommunicated in the heart of
Constantinople by the pope's legates. Shaking the dust from their
feet, they deposited on the altar of St. Sophia a direful
anathema, ^10 which enumerates the seven mortal heresies of the
Greeks, and devotes the guilty teachers, and their unhappy
sectaries, to the eternal society of the devil and his angels.
According to the emergencies of the church and state, a friendly
correspondence was some times resumed; the language of charity
and concord was sometimes affected; but the Greeks have never
recanted their errors; the popes have never repealed their
sentence; and from this thunderbolt we may date the consummation
of the schism. It was enlarged by each ambitious step of the
Roman pontiffs: the emperors blushed and trembled at the
ignominious fate of their royal brethren of Germany; and the
people were scandalized by the temporal power and military life
of the Latin clergy. ^11</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: The xth volume of the Venice edition of the
Councils contains all the acts of the synods, and history of
Photius: they are abridged, with a faint tinge of prejudice or
prudence, by Dupin and Fleury.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: The synod of Constantinople, held in the year
869, is the viiith of the general councils, the last assembly of
the East which is recognized by the Roman church. She rejects the
synods of Constantinople of the years 867 and 879, which were,
however, equally numerous and noisy; but they were favorable to
Photius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: See this anathema in the Councils, tom. xi. p.
1457--1460.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Anna Comnena (Alexiad, l. i. p. 31--33)
represents the abhorrence, not only of the church, but of the
palace, for Gregory VII., the popes and the Latin communion. The
style of Cinnamus and Nicetas is still more vehement. Yet how
calm is the voice of history compared with that of polemics!]</p>

<p>The aversion of the Greeks and Latins was nourished and
manifested in the three first expeditions to the Holy Land.
Alexius Comnenus contrived the absence at least of the formidable
pilgrims: his successors, Manuel and Isaac Angelus, conspired
with the Moslems for the ruin of the greatest princes of the
Franks; and their crooked and malignant policy was seconded by
the active and voluntary obedience of every order of their
subjects. Of this hostile temper, a large portion may doubtless
be ascribed to the difference of language, dress, and manners,
which severs and alienates the nations of the globe. The pride,
as well as the prudence, of the sovereign was deeply wounded by
the intrusion of foreign armies, that claimed a right of
traversing his dominions, and passing under the walls of his
capital: his subjects were insulted and plundered by the rude
strangers of the West: and the hatred of the pusillanimous Greeks
was sharpened by secret envy of the bold and pious enterprises of
the Franks. But these profane causes of national enmity were
fortified and inflamed by the venom of religious zeal. Instead of
a kind embrace, a hospitable reception from their Christian
brethren of the East, every tongue was taught to repeat the names
of schismatic and heretic, more odious to an orthodox ear than
those of pagan and infidel: instead of being loved for the
general conformity of faith and worship, they were abhorred for
some rules of discipline, some questions of theology, in which
themselves or their teachers might differ from the Oriental
church. In the crusade of Louis the Seventh, the Greek clergy
washed and purified the altars which had been defiled by the
sacrifice of a French priest. The companions of Frederic
Barbarossa deplore the injuries which they endured, both in word
and deed, from the peculiar rancor of the bishops and monks.
Their prayers and sermons excited the people against the impious
Barbarians; and the patriarch is accused of declaring, that the
faithful might obtain the redemption of all their sins by the
extirpation of the schismatics. ^12 An enthusiast, named
Dorotheus, alarmed the fears, and restored the confidence, of the
emperor, by a prophetic assurance, that the German heretic, after
assaulting the gate of Blachernes, would be made a signal example
of the divine vengeance. The passage of these mighty armies were
rare and perilous events; but the crusades introduced a frequent
and familiar intercourse between the two nations, which enlarged
their knowledge without abating their prejudices. The wealth and
luxury of Constantinople demanded the productions of every
climate these imports were balanced by the art and labor of her
numerous inhabitants; her situation invites the commerce of the
world; and, in every period of her existence, that commerce has
been in the hands of foreigners. After the decline of Amalphi,
the Venetians, Pisans, and Genoese, introduced their factories
and settlements into the capital of the empire: their services
were rewarded with honors and immunities; they acquired the
possession of lands and houses; their families were multiplied by
marriages with the natives; and, after the toleration of a
Mahometan mosque, it was impossible to interdict the churches of
the Roman rite. ^13 The two wives of Manuel Comnenus ^14 were of
the race of the Franks: the first, a sister-in-law of the emperor
Conrad; the second, a daughter of the prince of Antioch: he
obtained for his son Alexius a daughter of Philip Augustus, king
of France; and he bestowed his own daughter on a marquis of
Montferrat, who was educated and dignified in the palace of
Constantinople. The Greek encountered the arms, and aspired to
the empire, of the West: he esteemed the valor, and trusted the
fidelity, of the Franks; ^15 their military talents were unfitly
recompensed by the lucrative offices of judges and treasures; the
policy of Manuel had solicited the alliance of the pope; and the
popular voice accused him of a partial bias to the nation and
religion of the Latins. ^16 During his reign, and that of his
successor Alexius, they were exposed at Constantinople to the
reproach of foreigners, heretics, and favorites; and this triple
guilt was severely expiated in the tumult, which announced the
return and elevation of Andronicus. ^17 The people rose in arms:
from the Asiatic shore the tyrant despatched his troops and
galleys to assist the national revenge; and the hopeless
resistance of the strangers served only to justify the rage, and
sharpen the daggers, of the assassins. Neither age, nor sex, nor
the ties of friendship or kindred, could save the victims of
national hatred, and avarice, and religious zeal; the Latins were
slaughtered in their houses and in the streets; their quarter was
reduced to ashes; the clergy were burnt in their churches, and
the sick in their hospitals; and some estimate may be formed of
the slain from the clemency which sold above four thousand
Christians in perpetual slavery to the Turks. The priests and
monks were the loudest and most active in the destruction of the
schismatics; and they chanted a thanksgiving to the Lord, when
the head of a Roman cardinal, the pope's legate, was severed from
his body, fastened to the tail of a dog, and dragged, with savage
mockery, through the city. The more diligent of the strangers had
retreated, on the first alarm, to their vessels, and escaped
through the Hellespont from the scene of blood. In their flight,
they burnt and ravaged two hundred miles of the sea-coast;
inflicted a severe revenge on the guiltless subjects of the
empire; marked the priests and monks as their peculiar enemies;
and compensated, by the accumulation of plunder, the loss of
their property and friends. On their return, they exposed to
Italy and Europe the wealth and weakness, the perfidy and malice,
of the Greeks, whose vices were painted as the genuine characters
of heresy and schism. The scruples of the first crusaders had
neglected the fairest opportunities of securing, by the
possession of Constantinople, the way to the Holy Land: domestic
revolution invited, and almost compelled, the French and
Venetians to achieve the conquest of the Roman empire of the
East.</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: His anonymous historian (de Expedit. Asiat.
Fred. I. in Canisii Lection. Antiq. tom. iii. pars ii. p. 511,
edit. Basnage) mentions the sermons of the Greek patriarch,
quomodo Gr&aelig;cis injunxerat in remissionem peccatorum
peregrinos occidere et delere de terra. Tagino observes, (in
Scriptores Freher. tom. i. p. 409, edit. Struv.,) Gr&aelig;ci
h&aelig;reticos nos appellant: clerici et monachi dictis et
factis persequuntur. We may add the declaration of the emperor
Baldwin fifteen years afterwards: H&aelig;c est
(<strong><em>gens</em></strong>) qu&aelig; Latinos omnes non
hominum nomine, sed canum dignabatur; quorum sanguinem effundere
pen&egrave; inter merita reputabant, (Gesta Innocent. III., c.
92, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. pars i. p.
536.) There may be some exaggeration, but it was as effectual for
the action and reaction of hatred.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: See Anna Comnena, (Alexiad, l. vi. p. 161, 162,)
and a remarkable passage of Nicetas, (in Manuel, l. v. c. 9,) who
observes of the Venetians, kata smhnh kai jratriaV thn
Kwnstantinou polin thV oikeiaV hllaxanto, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 186, 187.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Nicetas in Manuel. l. vii. c. 2. Regnante enim
(Manuele) . . . . apud eum tantam Latinus populus repererat
gratiam ut neglectis Gr&aelig;culis suis tanquam viris mollibus
et effminatis, . . . . solis Latinis grandia committeret negotia
. . . . erga eos profus&acirc; liberalitate abundabat . . . . ex
omni orbe ad eum tanquam ad benefactorem nobiles et ignobiles
concurrebant. Willelm. Tyr. xxii. c. 10.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: The suspicions of the Greeks would have been
confirmed, if they had seen the political epistles of Manuel to
Pope Alexander III., the enemy of his enemy Frederic I., in which
the emperor declares his wish of uniting the Greeks and Latins as
one flock under one shepherd, &amp;c (See Fleury, Hist.
Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xv. p. 187, 213, 243.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: See the Greek and Latin narratives in Nicetas
(in Alexio Comneno, c. 10) and William of Tyre, (l. xxii. c. 10,
11, 12, 13;) the first soft and concise, the second loud,
copious, and tragical.]</p>

<p>In the series of the Byzantine princes, I have exhibited the
hypocrisy and ambition, the tyranny and fall, of Andronicus, the
last male of the Comnenian family who reigned at Constantinople.
The revolution, which cast him headlong from the throne, saved
and exalted Isaac Angelus, ^18 who descended by the females from
the same Imperial dynasty. The successor of a second Nero might
have found it an easy task to deserve the esteem and affection of
his subjects; they sometimes had reason to regret the
administration of Andronicus. The sound and vigorous mind of the
tyrant was capable of discerning the connection between his own
and the public interest; and while he was feared by all who could
inspire him with fear, the unsuspected people, and the remote
provinces, might bless the inexorable justice of their master.
But his successor was vain and jealous of the supreme power,
which he wanted courage and abilities to exercise: his vices were
pernicious, his virtues (if he possessed any virtues) were
useless, to mankind; and the Greeks, who imputed their calamities
to his negligence, denied him the merit of any transient or
accidental benefits of the times. Isaac slept on the throne, and
was awakened only by the sound of pleasure: his vacant hours were
amused by comedians and buffoons, and even to these buffoons the
emperor was an object of contempt: his feasts and buildings
exceeded the examples of royal luxury: the number of his eunuchs
and domestics amounted to twenty thousand; and a daily sum of
four thousand pounds of silver would swell to four millions
sterling the annual expense of his household and table. His
poverty was relieved by oppression; and the public discontent was
inflamed by equal abuses in the collection, and the application,
of the revenue. While the Greeks numbered the days of their
servitude, a flattering prophet, whom he rewarded with the
dignity of patriarch, assured him of a long and victorious reign
of thirty-two years; during which he should extend his sway to
Mount Libanus, and his conquests beyond the Euphrates. But his
only step towards the accomplishment of the prediction was a
splendid and scandalous embassy to Saladin, ^19 to demand the
restitution of the holy sepulchre, and to propose an offensive
and defensive league with the enemy of the Christian name. In
these unworthy hands, of Isaac and his brother, the remains of
the Greek empire crumbled into dust. The Island of Cyprus, whose
name excites the ideas of elegance and pleasure, was usurped by
his namesake, a Comnenian prince; and by a strange concatenation
of events, the sword of our English Richard bestowed that kingdom
on the house of Lusignan, a rich compensation for the loss of
Jerusalem.</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: The history of the reign of Isaac Angelus is
composed, in three books, by the senator Nicetas, (p. 228--290;)
and his offices of logothete, or principal secretary, and judge
of the veil or palace, could not bribe the impartiality of the
historian. He wrote, it is true, after the fall and death of his
benefactor.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: See Bohadin, Vit. Saladin. p. 129--131, 226,
vers. Schultens. The ambassador of Isaac was equally versed in
the Greek, French, and Arabic languages; a rare instance in those
times. His embassies were received with honor, dismissed without
effect, and reported with scandal in the West.]</p>

<p>The honor of the monarchy and the safety of the capital were
deeply wounded by the revolt of the Bulgarians and Walachians.
Since the victory of the second Basil, they had supported, above
a hundred and seventy years, the loose dominion of the Byzantine
princes; but no effectual measures had been adopted to impose the
yoke of laws and manners on these savage tribes. By the command
of Isaac, their sole means of subsistence, their flocks and
herds, were driven away, to contribute towards the pomp of the
royal nuptials; and their fierce warriors were exasperated by the
denial of equal rank and pay in the military service. Peter and
Asan, two powerful chiefs, of the race of the ancient kings, ^20
asserted their own rights and the national freedom; their
d&aelig;moniac impostors proclaimed to the crowd, that their
glorious patron St. Demetrius had forever deserted the cause of
the Greeks; and the conflagration spread from the banks of the
Danube to the hills of Macedonia and Thrace. After some faint
efforts, Isaac Angelus and his brother acquiesced in their
independence; and the Imperial troops were soon discouraged by
the bones of their fellow-soldiers, that were scattered along the
passes of Mount H&aelig;mus. By the arms and policy of John or
Joannices, the second kingdom of Bulgaria was firmly established.
The subtle Barbarian sent an embassy to Innocent the Third, to
acknowledge himself a genuine son of Rome in descent and
religion, ^21 and humbly received from the pope the license of
coining money, the royal title, and a Latin archbishop or
patriarch. The Vatican exulted in the spiritual conquest of
Bulgaria, the first object of the schism; and if the Greeks could
have preserved the prerogatives of the church, they would gladly
have resigned the rights of the monarchy.</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: Ducange, Famili&aelig;, Dalmatic&aelig;, p. 318,
319, 320. The original correspondence of the Bulgarian king and
the Roman pontiff is inscribed in the Gesta Innocent. III. c.
66--82, p. 513--525.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: The pope acknowledges his pedigree, a nobili
urbis Rom&aelig; prosapi&acirc; genitores tui originem traxerunt.
This tradition, and the strong resemblance of the Latin and
Walachian idioms, is explained by M. D'Anville, (Etats de
l'Europe, p. 258--262.) The Italian colonies of the Dacia of
Trajan were swept away by the tide of emigration from the Danube
to the Volga, and brought back by another wave from the Volga to
the Danube. Possible, but strange!]</p>

<p>The Bulgarians were malicious enough to pray for the long life
of Isaac Angelus, the surest pledge of their freedom and
prosperity. Yet their chiefs could involve in the same
indiscriminate contempt the family and nation of the emperor. "In
all the Greeks," said Asan to his troops, "the same climate, and
character, and education, will be productive of the same fruits.
Behold my lance," continued the warrior, "and the long streamers
that float in the wind. They differ only in color; they are
formed of the same silk, and fashioned by the same workman; nor
has the stripe that is stained in purple any superior price or
value above its fellows." ^22 Several of these candidates for the
purple successively rose and fell under the empire of Isaac; a
general, who had repelled the fleets of Sicily, was driven to
revolt and ruin by the ingratitude of the prince; and his
luxurious repose was disturbed by secret conspiracies and popular
insurrections. The emperor was saved by accident, or the merit of
his servants: he was at length oppressed by an ambitious brother,
who, for the hope of a precarious diadem, forgot the obligations
of nature, of loyalty, and of friendship. ^23 While Isaac in the
Thracian valleys pursued the idle and solitary pleasures of the
chase, his brother, Alexius Angelus, was invested with the
purple, by the unanimous suffrage of the camp; the capital and
the clergy subscribed to their choice; and the vanity of the new
sovereign rejected the name of his fathers for the lofty and
royal appellation of the Comnenian race. On the despicable
character of Isaac I have exhausted the language of contempt, and
can only add, that, in a reign of eight years, the baser Alexius
^24 was supported by the masculine vices of his wife Euphrosyne.
The first intelligence of his fall was conveyed to the late
emperor by the hostile aspect and pursuit of the guards, no
longer his own: he fled before them above fifty miles, as far as
Stagyra, in Macedonia; but the fugitive, without an object or a
follower, was arrested, brought back to Constantinople, deprived
of his eyes, and confined in a lonesome tower, on a scanty
allowance of bread and water. At the moment of the revolution,
his son Alexius, whom he educated in the hope of empire, was
twelve years of age. He was spared by the usurper, and reduced to
attend his triumph both in peace and war; but as the army was
encamped on the sea-shore, an Italian vessel facilitated the
escape of the royal youth; and, in the disguise of a common
sailor, he eluded the search of his enemies, passed the
Hellespont, and found a secure refuge in the Isle of Sicily.
After saluting the threshold of the apostles, and imploring the
protection of Pope Innocent the Third, Alexius accepted the kind
invitation of his sister Irene, the wife of Philip of Swabia,
king of the Romans. But in his passage through Italy, he heard
that the flower of Western chivalry was assembled at Venice for
the deliverance of the Holy Land; and a ray of hope was kindled
in his bosom, that their invincible swords might be employed in
his father's restoration.</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: This parable is in the best savage style; but I
wish the Walach had not introduced the classic name of Mysians,
the experiment of the magnet or loadstone, and the passage of an
old comic poet, (Nicetas in Alex. Comneno, l. i. p. 299,
300.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: The Latins aggravate the ingratitude of Alexius,
by supposing that he had been released by his brother Isaac from
Turkish captivity This pathetic tale had doubtless been repeated
at Venice and Zara but I do not readily discover its grounds in
the Greek historians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: See the reign of Alexius Angelus, or Comnenus,
in the three books of Nicetas, p. 291--352.]</p>

<p>About ten or twelve years after the loss of Jerusalem, the
nobles of France were again summoned to the holy war by the voice
of a third prophet, less extravagant, perhaps, than Peter the
hermit, but far below St. Bernard in the merit of an orator and a
statesman. An illiterate priest of the neighborhood of Paris,
Fulk of Neuilly, ^25 forsook his parochial duty, to assume the
more flattering character of a popular and itinerant missionary.
The fame of his sanctity and miracles was spread over the land;
he declaimed, with severity and vehemence, against the vices of
the age; and his sermons, which he preached in the streets of
Paris, converted the robbers, the usurers, the prostitutes, and
even the doctors and scholars of the university. No sooner did
Innocent the Third ascend the chair of St. Peter, than he
proclaimed in Italy, Germany, and France, the obligation of a new
crusade. ^26 The eloquent pontiff described the ruin of
Jerusalem, the triumph of the Pagans, and the shame of
Christendom; his liberality proposed the redemption of sins, a
plenary indulgence to all who should serve in Palestine, either a
year in person, or two years by a substitute; ^27 and among his
legates and orators who blew the sacred trumpet, Fulk of Neuilly
was the loudest and most successful. The situation of the
principal monarchs was averse to the pious summons. The emperor
Frederic the Second was a child; and his kingdom of Germany was
disputed by the rival houses of Brunswick and Swabia, the
memorable factions of the Guelphs and Ghibelines. Philip Augustus
of France had performed, and could not be persuaded to renew, the
perilous vow; but as he was not less ambitious of praise than of
power, he cheerfully instituted a perpetual fund for the defence
of the Holy Land Richard of England was satiated with the glory
and misfortunes of his first adventure; and he presumed to deride
the exhortations of Fulk of Neuilly, who was not abashed in the
presence of kings. "You advise me," said Plantagenet, "to dismiss
my three daughters, pride, avarice, and incontinence: I bequeath
them to the most deserving; my pride to the knights templars, my
avarice to the monks of Cisteaux, and my incontinence to the
prelates." But the preacher was heard and obeyed by the great
vassals, the princes of the second order; and Theobald, or
Thibaut, count of Champagne, was the foremost in the holy race.
The valiant youth, at the age of twenty-two years, was encouraged
by the domestic examples of his father, who marched in the second
crusade, and of his elder brother, who had ended his days in
Palestine with the title of King of Jerusalem; two thousand two
hundred knights owed service and homage to his peerage; ^28 the
nobles of Champagne excelled in all the exercises of war; ^29
and, by his marriage with the heiress of Navarre, Thibaut could
draw a band of hardy Gascons from either side of the
Pyren&aelig;an mountains. His companion in arms was Louis, count
of Blois and Chartres; like himself of regal lineage, for both
the princes were nephews, at the same time, of the kings of
France and England. In a crowd of prelates and barons, who
imitated their zeal, I distinguish the birth and merit of Matthew
of Montmorency; the famous Simon of Montfort, the scourge of the
Albigeois; and a valiant noble, Jeffrey of Villehardouin, ^30
marshal of Champagne, ^31 who has condescended, in the rude idiom
of his age and country, ^32 to write or dictate ^33 an original
narrative of the councils and actions in which he bore a
memorable part. At the same time, Baldwin, count of Flanders, who
had married the sister of Thibaut, assumed the cross at Bruges,
with his brother Henry, and the principal knights and citizens of
that rich and industrious province. ^34 The vow which the chiefs
had pronounced in churches, they ratified in tournaments; the
operations of the war were debated in full and frequent
assemblies; and it was resolved to seek the deliverance of
Palestine in Egypt, a country, since Saladin's death, which was
almost ruined by famine and civil war. But the fate of so many
royal armies displayed the toils and perils of a land expedition;
and if the Flemings dwelt along the ocean, the French barons were
destitute of ships and ignorant of navigation. They embraced the
wise resolution of choosing six deputies or representatives, of
whom Villehardouin was one, with a discretionary trust to direct
the motions, and to pledge the faith, of the whole confederacy.
The maritime states of Italy were alone possessed of the means of
transporting the holy warriors with their arms and horses; and
the six deputies proceeded to Venice, to solicit, on motives of
piety or interest, the aid of that powerful republic.</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: See Fleury, Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xvi. p.
26, &amp;c., and Villehardouin, No. 1, with the observations of
Ducange, which I always mean to quote with the original
text.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: The contemporary life of Pope Innocent III.,
published by Baluze and Muratori, (Scriptores Rerum Italicarum,
tom. iii. pars i. p. 486--568, is most valuable for the important
and original documents which are inserted in the text. The bull
of the crusade may be read, c. 84, 85.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Por-ce que cil pardon, fut issi gran, si s'en
esmeurent mult li cuers des genz, et mult s'en croisierent, porce
que li pardons ere si gran. Villehardouin, No. 1. Our
philosophers may refine on the causes of the crusades, but such
were the genuine feelings of a French knight.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: This number of fiefs (of which 1800 owed liege
homage) was enrolled in the church of St. Stephen at Troyes, and
attested A.D. 1213, by the marshal and butler of Champagne,
(Ducange, Observ. p. 254.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Campania . . . . militi&aelig; privilegio
singularius excellit . . . . in tyrociniis . . . . prolusione
armorum, &amp;c., Duncage, p. 249, from the old Chronicle of
Jerusalem, A.D. 1177--1199.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: The name of Villehardouin was taken from a
village and castle in the diocese of Troyes, near the River Aube,
between Bar and Arcis. The family was ancient and noble; the
elder branch of our historian existed after the year 1400, the
younger, which acquired the principality of Achaia, merged in the
house of Savoy, (Ducange, p. 235--245.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: This office was held by his father and his
descendants; but Ducange has not hunted it with his usual
sagacity. I find that, in the year 1356, it was in the family of
Conflans; but these provincial have been long since eclipsed by
the national marshals of France.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: This language, of which I shall produce some
specimens, is explained by Vigenere and Ducange, in a version and
glossary. The president Des Brosses (M&eacute;chanisme des
Langues, tom. ii. p. 83) gives it as the example of a language
which has ceased to be French, and is understood only by
grammarians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: His age, and his own expression, moi qui ceste
uvre <strong><em>dicta</em></strong>, (No. 62, &amp;c.,) may
justify the suspicion (more probable than Mr. Wood's on Homer)
that he could neither read nor write. Yet Champagne may boast of
the two first historians, the noble authors of French prose,
Villehardouin and Joinville.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: The crusade and reigns of the counts of
Flanders, Baldwin and his brother Henry, are the subject of a
particular history by the Jesuit Doutremens, (Constantinopolis
Belgica; Turnaci, 1638, in 4to.,) which I have only seen with the
eyes of Ducange.]</p>

<p>In the invasion of Italy by Attila, I have mentioned ^35 the
flight of the Venetians from the fallen cities of the continent,
and their obscure shelter in the chain of islands that line the
extremity of the Adriatic Gulf. In the midst of the waters, free,
indigent, laborious, and inaccessible, they gradually coalesced
into a republic: the first foundations of Venice were laid in the
Island of Rialto; and the annual election of the twelve tribunes
was superseded by the permanent office of a duke or doge. On the
verge of the two empires, the Venetians exult in the belief of
primitive and perpetual independence. ^36 Against the Latins,
their antique freedom has been asserted by the sword, and may be
justified by the pen. Charlemagne himself resigned all claims of
sovereignty to the islands of the Adriatic Gulf: his son Pepin
was repulsed in the attacks of the
<strong><em>lagunas</em></strong> or canals, too deep for the
cavalry, and too shallow for the vessels; and in every age, under
the German C&aelig;sars, the lands of the republic have been
clearly distinguished from the kingdom of Italy. But the
inhabitants of Venice were considered by themselves, by
strangers, and by their sovereigns, as an inalienable portion of
the Greek empire: ^37 in the ninth and tenth centuries, the
proofs of their subjection are numerous and unquestionable; and
the vain titles, the servile honors, of the Byzantine court, so
ambitiously solicited by their dukes, would have degraded the
magistrates of a free people. But the bands of this dependence,
which was never absolute or rigid, were imperceptibly relaxed by
the ambition of Venice and the weakness of Constantinople.
Obedience was softened into respect, privilege ripened into
prerogative, and the freedom of domestic government was fortified
by the independence of foreign dominion. The maritime cities of
Istria and Dalmatia bowed to the sovereigns of the Adriatic; and
when they armed against the Normans in the cause of Alexius, the
emperor applied, not to the duty of his subjects, but to the
gratitude and generosity of his faithful allies. The sea was
their patrimony: ^38 the western parts of the Mediterranean, from
Tuscany to Gibraltar, were indeed abandoned to their rivals of
Pisa and Genoa; but the Venetians acquired an early and lucrative
share of the commerce of Greece and Egypt. Their riches increased
with the increasing demand of Europe; their manufactures of silk
and glass, perhaps the institution of their bank, are of high
antiquity; and they enjoyed the fruits of their industry in the
magnificence of public and private life. To assert her flag, to
avenge her injuries, to protect the freedom of navigation, the
republic could launch and man a fleet of a hundred galleys; and
the Greeks, the Saracens, and the Normans, were encountered by
her naval arms. The Franks of Syria were assisted by the
Venetians in the reduction of the sea coast; but their zeal was
neither blind nor disinterested; and in the conquest of Tyre,
they shared the sovereignty of a city, the first seat of the
commerce of the world. The policy of Venice was marked by the
avarice of a trading, and the insolence of a maritime, power; yet
her ambition was prudent: nor did she often forget that if armed
galleys were the effect and safeguard, merchant vessels were the
cause and supply, of her greatness. In her religion, she avoided
the schisms of the Greeks, without yielding a servile obedience
to the Roman pontiff; and a free intercourse with the infidels of
every clime appears to have allayed betimes the fever of
superstition. Her primitive government was a loose mixture of
democracy and monarchy; the doge was elected by the votes of the
general assembly; as long as he was popular and successful, he
reigned with the pomp and authority of a prince; but in the
frequent revolutions of the state, he was deposed, or banished,
or slain, by the justice or injustice of the multitude. The
twelfth century produced the first rudiments of the wise and
jealous aristocracy, which has reduced the doge to a pageant, and
the people to a cipher. ^39</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: History, &amp;c., vol. iii. p. 446, 447.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: The foundation and independence of Venice, and
Pepin's invasion, are discussed by Pagi (Critica, tom. iii. A.D.
81), No. 4, &amp;c.) and Beretti, (Dissert. Chorograph.
Itali&aelig; Medii &AElig;vi, in Muratori, Script. tom. x. p.
153.) The two critics have a slight bias, the Frenchman adverse,
the Italian favorable, to the republic.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: When the son of Charlemagne asserted his right
of sovereignty, he was answered by the loyal Venetians, oti hmeiV
douloi Jelomen einai tou 'Rwmaiwn basilewV, (Constantin.
Porphyrogenit. de Administrat. Imperii, pars ii. c. 28, p. 85;)
and the report of the ixth establishes the fact of the xth
century, which is confirmed by the embassy of Liutprand of
Cremona. The annual tribute, which the emperor allows them to pay
to the king of Italy, alleviates, by doubling, their servitude;
but the hateful word douloi must be translated, as in the charter
of 827, (Laugier, Hist. de Venice, tom. i. p. 67, &amp;c.,) by
the softer appellation of <strong><em>subditi</em></strong>, or
<strong><em>fideles</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: See the xxvth and xxxth dissertations of the
Antiquitates Medii &AElig;vi of Muratori. From Anderson's History
of Commerce, I understand that the Venetians did not trade to
England before the year 1323. The most flourishing state of their
wealth and commerce, in the beginning of the xvth century, is
agreeably described by the Abb&eacute; Dubos, (Hist. de la Ligue
de Cambray, tom. ii. p. 443--480.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: The Venetians have been slow in writing and
publishing their history. Their most ancient monuments are, 1.
The rude Chronicle (perhaps) of John Sagorninus, (Venezia, 1765,
in octavo,) which represents the state and manners of Venice in
the year 1008. 2. The larger history of the doge, (1342--1354,)
Andrew Dandolo, published for the first time in the xiith tom. of
Muratori, A.D. 1728. The History of Venice by the Abb&eacute;
Laugier, (Paris, 1728,) is a work of some merit, which I have
chiefly used for the constitutional part. *</p>

<p>Note: * It is scarcely necessary to mention the valuable work
of Count Daru, "History de Venise," of which I hear that an
Italian translation has been published, with notes defensive of
the ancient republic. I have not yet seen this work. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LX: The Fourth Crusade. -- Part
II.</em></strong></p>

<p>When the six ambassadors of the French pilgrims arrived at
Venice, they were hospitably entertained in the palace of St.
Mark, by the reigning duke; his name was Henry Dandolo; ^40 and
he shone in the last period of human life as one of the most
illustrious characters of the times. Under the weight of years,
and after the loss of his eyes, ^41 Dandolo retained a sound
understanding and a manly courage: the spirit of a hero,
ambitious to signalize his reign by some memorable exploits; and
the wisdom of a patriot, anxious to build his fame on the glory
and advantage of his country. He praised the bold enthusiasm and
liberal confidence of the barons and their deputies: in such a
cause, and with such associates, he should aspire, were he a
private man, to terminate his life; but he was the servant of the
republic, and some delay was requisite to consult, on this
arduous business, the judgment of his colleagues. The proposal of
the French was first debated by the six
<strong><em>sages</em></strong> who had been recently appointed
to control the administration of the doge: it was next disclosed
to the forty members of the council of state; and finally
communicated to the legislative assembly of four hundred and
fifty representatives, who were annually chosen in the six
quarters of the city. In peace and war, the doge was still the
chief of the republic; his legal authority was supported by the
personal reputation of Dandolo: his arguments of public interest
were balanced and approved; and he was authorized to inform the
ambassadors of the following conditions of the treaty. ^42 It was
proposed that the crusaders should assemble at Venice, on the
feast of St. John of the ensuing year; that flat-bottomed vessels
should be prepared for four thousand five hundred horses, and
nine thousand squires, with a number of ships sufficient for the
embarkation of four thousand five hundred knights, and twenty
thousand foot; that during a term of nine months they should be
supplied with provisions, and transported to whatsoever coast the
service of God and Christendom should require; and that the
republic should join the armament with a squadron of fifty
galleys. It was required, that the pilgrims should pay, before
their departure, a sum of eighty-five thousand marks of silver;
and that all conquests, by sea and land, should be equally
divided between the confederates. The terms were hard; but the
emergency was pressing, and the French barons were not less
profuse of money than of blood. A general assembly was convened
to ratify the treaty: the stately chapel and place of St. Mark
were filled with ten thousand citizens; and the noble deputies
were taught a new lesson of humbling themselves before the
majesty of the people. "Illustrious Venetians," said the marshal
of Champagne, "we are sent by the greatest and most powerful
barons of France to implore the aid of the masters of the sea for
the deliverance of Jerusalem. They have enjoined us to fall
prostrate at your feet; nor will we rise from the ground till you
have promised to avenge with us the injuries of Christ." The
eloquence of their words and tears, ^43 their martial aspect, and
suppliant attitude, were applauded by a universal shout; as it
were, says Jeffrey, by the sound of an earthquake. The venerable
doge ascended the pulpit to urge their request by those motives
of honor and virtue, which alone can be offered to a popular
assembly: the treaty was transcribed on parchment, attested with
oaths and seals, mutually accepted by the weeping and joyful
representatives of France and Venice; and despatched to Rome for
the approbation of Pope Innocent the Third. Two thousand marks
were borrowed of the merchants for the first expenses of the
armament. Of the six deputies, two repassed the Alps to announce
their success, while their four companions made a fruitless trial
of the zeal and emulation of the republics of Genoa and Pisa.</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: Henry Dandolo was eighty-four at his election,
(A.D. 1192,) and ninety-seven at his death, (A.D. 1205.) See the
Observations of Ducange sur Villehardouin, No. 204. But this
<strong><em>extraordinary</em></strong> longevity is not observed
by the original writers, nor does there exist another example of
a hero near a hundred years of age. Theophrastus might afford an
instance of a writer of ninety-nine; but instead of ennenhkonta,
(Prom. ad Character.,)I am much inclined to read ebdomhkonta,
with his last editor Fischer, and the first thoughts of Casaubon.
It is scarcely possible that the powers of the mind and body
should support themselves till such a period of life.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: The modern Venetians (Laugier, tom. ii. p. 119)
accuse the emperor Manuel; but the calumny is refuted by
Villehardouin and the older writers, who suppose that Dandolo
lost his eyes by a wound, (No. 31, and Ducange.) *</p>

<p>Note: * The accounts differ, both as to the extent and the
cause of his blindness According to Villehardouin and others, the
sight was totally lost; according to the Chronicle of Andrew
Dandolo. (Murat. tom. xii. p. 322,) he was vise debilis. See
Wilken, vol. v. p. 143. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: See the original treaty in the Chronicle of
Andrew Dandolo, p. 323--326.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: A reader of Villehardouin must observe the
frequent tears of the marshal and his brother knights. Sachiez
que la ot mainte lerme plor&eacute;e de piti&eacute;, (No. 17;)
mult plorant, (ibid.;) mainte lerme plor&eacute;e, (No. 34;) si
orent mult piti&eacute; et plorerent mult durement, (No. 60;) i
ot mainte lerme plor&eacute;e de piti&eacute;, (No. 202.) They
weep on every occasion of grief, joy, or devotion.]</p>

<p>The execution of the treaty was still opposed by unforeseen
difficulties and delays. The marshal, on his return to Troyes,
was embraced and approved by Thibaut count of Champagne, who had
been unanimously chosen general of the confederates. But the
health of that valiant youth already declined, and soon became
hopeless; and he deplored the untimely fate, which condemned him
to expire, not in a field of battle, but on a bed of sickness. To
his brave and numerous vassals, the dying prince distributed his
treasures: they swore in his presence to accomplish his vow and
their own; but some there were, says the marshal, who accepted
his gifts and forfeited their words. The more resolute champions
of the cross held a parliament at Soissons for the election of a
new general; but such was the incapacity, or jealousy, or
reluctance, of the princes of France, that none could be found
both able and willing to assume the conduct of the enterprise.
They acquiesced in the choice of a stranger, of Boniface marquis
of Montferrat, descended of a race of heroes, and himself of
conspicuous fame in the wars and negotiations of the times; ^44
nor could the piety or ambition of the Italian chief decline this
honorable invitation. After visiting the French court, where he
was received as a friend and kinsman, the marquis, in the church
of Soissons, was invested with the cross of a pilgrim and the
staff of a general; and immediately repassed the Alps, to prepare
for the distant expedition of the East. About the festival of the
Pentecost he displayed his banner, and marched towards Venice at
the head of the Italians: he was preceded or followed by the
counts of Flanders and Blois, and the most respectable barons of
France; and their numbers were swelled by the pilgrims of
Germany, ^45 whose object and motives were similar to their own.
The Venetians had fulfilled, and even surpassed, their
engagements: stables were constructed for the horses, and
barracks for the troops: the magazines were abundantly
replenished with forage and provisions; and the fleet of
transports, ships, and galleys, was ready to hoist sail as soon
as the republic had received the price of the freight and
armament. But that price far exceeded the wealth of the crusaders
who were assembled at Venice. The Flemings, whose obedience to
their count was voluntary and precarious, had embarked in their
vessels for the long navigation of the ocean and Mediterranean;
and many of the French and Italians had preferred a cheaper and
more convenient passage from Marseilles and Apulia to the Holy
Land. Each pilgrim might complain, that after he had furnished
his own contribution, he was made responsible for the deficiency
of his absent brethren: the gold and silver plate of the chiefs,
which they freely delivered to the treasury of St. Marks, was a
generous but inadequate sacrifice; and after all their efforts,
thirty-four thousand marks were still wanting to complete the
stipulated sum. The obstacle was removed by the policy and
patriotism of the doge, who proposed to the barons, that if they
would join their arms in reducing some revolted cities of
Dalmatia, he would expose his person in the holy war, and obtain
from the republic a long indulgence, till some wealthy conquest
should afford the means of satisfying the debt. After much
scruple and hesitation, they chose rather to accept the offer
than to relinquish the enterprise; and the first hostilities of
the fleet and army were directed against Zara, ^46 a strong city
of the Sclavonian coast, which had renounced its allegiance to
Venice, and implored the protection of the king of Hungary. ^47
The crusaders burst the chain or boom of the harbor; landed their
horses, troops, and military engines; and compelled the
inhabitants, after a defence of five days, to surrender at
discretion: their lives were spared, but the revolt was punished
by the pillage of their houses and the demolition of their walls.
The season was far advanced; the French and Venetians resolved to
pass the winter in a secure harbor and plentiful country; but
their repose was disturbed by national and tumultuous quarrels of
the soldiers and mariners. The conquest of Zara had scattered the
seeds of discord and scandal: the arms of the allies had been
stained in their outset with the blood, not of infidels, but of
Christians: the king of Hungary and his new subjects were
themselves enlisted under the banner of the cross; and the
scruples of the devout were magnified by the fear of lassitude of
the reluctant pilgrims. The pope had excommunicated the false
crusaders who had pillaged and massacred their brethren, ^48 and
only the marquis Boniface and Simon of Montfort ^* escaped these
spiritual thunders; the one by his absence from the siege, the
other by his final departure from the camp. Innocent might
absolve the simple and submissive penitents of France; but he was
provoked by the stubborn reason of the Venetians, who refused to
confess their guilt, to accept their pardon, or to allow, in
their temporal concerns, the interposition of a priest.</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: By a victory (A.D. 1191) over the citizens of
Asti, by a crusade to Palestine, and by an embassy from the pope
to the German princes, (Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. x. p.
163, 202.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: See the crusade of the Germans in the Historia
C. P. of Gunther, (Canisii Antiq. Lect. tom. iv. p. v.--viii.,)
who celebrates the pilgrimage of his abbot Martin, one of the
preaching rivals of Fulk of Neuilly. His monastery, of the
Cistercian order, was situate in the diocese of Basil.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Jadera, now Zara, was a Roman colony, which
acknowledged Augustus for its parent. It is now only two miles
round, and contains five or six thousand inhabitants; but the
fortifications are strong, and it is joined to the main land by a
bridge. See the travels of the two companions, Spon and Wheeler,
(Voyage de Dalmatie, de Gr&egrave;ce, &amp;c., tom. i. p. 64--70.
Journey into Greece, p. 8--14;) the last of whom, by mistaking
<strong><em>Sestertia</em></strong> for
<strong><em>Sestertii</em></strong>, values an arch with statues
and columns at twelve pounds. If, in his time, there were no
trees near Zara, the cherry-trees were not yet planted which
produce our incomparable
<strong><em>marasquin</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: Katona (Hist. Critica Reg. Hungari&aelig;,
Stirpis Arpad. tom. iv. p. 536--558) collects all the facts and
testimonies most adverse to the conquerors of Zara.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: See the whole transaction, and the sentiments of
the pope, in the Epistles of Innocent III. Gesta, c. 86, 87,
88.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Montfort protested against the siege. Guido, the
abbot of Vaux de Sernay, in the name of the pope, interdicted the
attack on a Christian city; and the immediate surrender of the
town was thus delayed for five days of fruitless resistance.
Wilken, vol. v. p. 167. See likewise, at length, the history of
the interdict issued by the pope. Ibid. -- M.]</p>

<p>The assembly of such formidable powers by sea and land had
revived the hopes of young ^49 Alexius; and both at Venice and
Zara, he solicited the arms of the crusaders, for his own
restoration and his father's ^50 deliverance. The royal youth was
recommended by Philip king of Germany: his prayers and presence
excited the compassion of the camp; and his cause was embraced
and pleaded by the marquis of Montferrat and the doge of Venice.
A double alliance, and the dignity of C&aelig;sar, had connected
with the Imperial family the two elder brothers of Boniface: ^51
he expected to derive a kingdom from the important service; and
the more generous ambition of Dandolo was eager to secure the
inestimable benefits of trade and dominion that might accrue to
his country. ^52 Their influence procured a favorable audience
for the ambassadors of Alexius; and if the magnitude of his
offers excited some suspicion, the motives and rewards which he
displayed might justify the delay and diversion of those forces
which had been consecrated to the deliverance of Jerusalem. He
promised in his own and his father's name, that as soon as they
should be seated on the throne of Constantinople, they would
terminate the long schism of the Greeks, and submit themselves
and their people to the lawful supremacy of the Roman church. He
engaged to recompense the labors and merits of the crusaders, by
the immediate payment of two hundred thousand marks of silver; to
accompany them in person to Egypt; or, if it should be judged
more advantageous, to maintain, during a year, ten thousand men,
and, during his life, five hundred knights, for the service of
the Holy Land. These tempting conditions were accepted by the
republic of Venice; and the eloquence of the doge and marquis
persuaded the counts of Flanders, Blois, and St. Pol, with eight
barons of France, to join in the glorious enterprise. A treaty of
offensive and defensive alliance was confirmed by their oaths and
seals; and each individual, according to his situation and
character, was swayed by the hope of public or private advantage;
by the honor of restoring an exiled monarch; or by the sincere
and probable opinion, that their efforts in Palestine would be
fruitless and unavailing, and that the acquisition of
Constantinople must precede and prepare the recovery of
Jerusalem. But they were the chiefs or equals of a valiant band
of freemen and volunteers, who thought and acted for themselves:
the soldiers and clergy were divided; and, if a large majority
subscribed to the alliance, the numbers and arguments of the
dissidents were strong and respectable. ^53 The boldest hearts
were appalled by the report of the naval power and impregnable
strength of Constantinople; and their apprehensions were
disguised to the world, and perhaps to themselves, by the more
decent objections of religion and duty. They alleged the sanctity
of a vow, which had drawn them from their families and homes to
the rescue of the holy sepulchre; nor should the dark and crooked
counsels of human policy divert them from a pursuit, the event of
which was in the hands of the Almighty. Their first offence, the
attack of Zara, had been severely punished by the reproach of
their conscience and the censures of the pope; nor would they
again imbrue their hands in the blood of their fellow-Christians.
The apostle of Rome had pronounced; nor would they usurp the
right of avenging with the sword the schism of the Greeks and the
doubtful usurpation of the Byzantine monarch. On these principles
or pretences, many pilgrims, the most distinguished for their
valor and piety, withdrew from the camp; and their retreat was
less pernicious than the open or secret opposition of a
discontented party, that labored, on every occasion, to separate
the army and disappoint the enterprise.</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: A modern reader is surprised to hear of the
valet de Constantinople, as applied to young Alexius, on account
of his youth, like the <strong><em>infants</em></strong> of
Spain, and the <strong><em>nobilissimus puer</em></strong> of the
Romans. The pages and <strong><em>valets</em></strong> of the
knights were as noble as themselves, (Villehardouin and Ducange,
No. 36.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The emperor Isaac is styled by Villehardouin,
<strong><em>Sursac</em></strong>, (No. 35, &amp;c.,) which may be
derived from the French <strong><em>Sire</em></strong>, or the
Greek Kur (kurioV?) melted into his proper name; the further
corruptions of Tursac and Conserac will instruct us what license
may have been used in the old dynasties of Assyria and
Egypt.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: Reinier and Conrad: the former married Maria,
daughter of the emperor Manuel Comnenus; the latter was the
husband of Theodora Angela, sister of the emperors Isaac and
Alexius. Conrad abandoned the Greek court and princess for the
glory of defending Tyre against Saladin, (Ducange, Fam. Byzant.
p. 187, 203.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Nicetas (in Alexio Comneno, l. iii. c. 9)
accuses the doge and Venetians as the first authors of the war
against Constantinople, and considers only as a kuma epi kumati,
the arrival and shameful offers of the royal exile. *</p>

<p>Note: * He admits, however, that the Angeli had committed
depredations on the Venetian trade, and the emperor himself had
refused the payment of part of the stipulated compensation for
the seizure of the Venetian merchandise by the emperor Manuel.
Nicetas, in loc. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: Villehardouin and Gunther represent the
sentiments of the two parties. The abbot Martin left the army at
Zara, proceeded to Palestine, was sent ambassador to
Constantinople, and became a reluctant witness of the second
siege.]</p>

<p>Notwithstanding this defection, the departure of the fleet and
army was vigorously pressed by the Venetians, whose zeal for the
service of the royal youth concealed a just resentment to his
nation and family. They were mortified by the recent preference
which had been given to Pisa, the rival of their trade; they had
a long arrear of debt and injury to liquidate with the Byzantine
court; and Dandolo might not discourage the popular tale, that he
had been deprived of his eyes by the emperor Manuel, who
perfidiously violated the sanctity of an ambassador. A similar
armament, for ages, had not rode the Adriatic: it was composed of
one hundred and twenty flat-bottomed vessels or
<strong><em>palanders</em></strong> for the horses; two hundred
and forty transports filled with men and arms; seventy
store-ships laden with provisions; and fifty stout galleys, well
prepared for the encounter of an enemy. ^54 While the wind was
favorable, the sky serene, and the water smooth, every eye was
fixed with wonder and delight on the scene of military and naval
pomp which overspread the sea. ^* The shields of the knights and
squires, at once an ornament and a defence, were arranged on
either side of the ships; the banners of the nations and families
were displayed from the stern; our modern artillery was supplied
by three hundred engines for casting stones and darts: the
fatigues of the way were cheered with the sound of music; and the
spirits of the adventurers were raised by the mutual assurance,
that forty thousand Christian heroes were equal to the conquest
of the world. ^55 In the navigation ^56 from Venice and Zara, the
fleet was successfully steered by the skill and experience of the
Venetian pilots: at Durazzo, the confederates first landed on the
territories of the Greek empire: the Isle of Corfu afforded a
station and repose; they doubled, without accident, the perilous
cape of Malea, the southern point of Peloponnesus or the Morea;
made a descent in the islands of Negropont and Andros; and cast
anchor at Abydus on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont. These
preludes of conquest were easy and bloodless: the Greeks of the
provinces, without patriotism or courage, were crushed by an
irresistible force: the presence of the lawful heir might justify
their obedience; and it was rewarded by the modesty and
discipline of the Latins. As they penetrated through the
Hellespont, the magnitude of their navy was compressed in a
narrow channel, and the face of the waters was darkened with
innumerable sails. They again expanded in the basin of the
Propontis, and traversed that placid sea, till they approached
the European shore, at the abbey of St. Stephen, three leagues to
the west of Constantinople. The prudent doge dissuaded them from
dispersing themselves in a populous and hostile land; and, as
their stock of provisions was reduced, it was resolved, in the
season of harvest, to replenish their store-ships in the fertile
islands of the Propontis. With this resolution, they directed
their course: but a strong gale, and their own impatience, drove
them to the eastward; and so near did they run to the shore and
the city, that some volleys of stones and darts were exchanged
between the ships and the rampart. As they passed along, they
gazed with admiration on the capital of the East, or, as it
should seem, of the earth; rising from her seven hills, and
towering over the continents of Europe and Asia. The swelling
domes and lofty spires of five hundred palaces and churches were
gilded by the sun and reflected in the waters: the walls were
crowded with soldiers and spectators, whose numbers they beheld,
of whose temper they were ignorant; and each heart was chilled by
the reflection, that, since the beginning of the world, such an
enterprise had never been undertaken by such a handful of
warriors. But the momentary apprehension was dispelled by hope
and valor; and every man, says the marshal of Champagne, glanced
his eye on the sword or lance which he must speedily use in the
glorious conflict. ^57 The Latins cast anchor before Chalcedon;
the mariners only were left in the vessels: the soldiers, horses,
and arms, were safely landed; and, in the luxury of an Imperial
palace, the barons tasted the first fruits of their success. On
the third day, the fleet and army moved towards Scutari, the
Asiatic suburb of Constantinople: a detachment of five hundred
Greek horse was surprised and defeated by fourscore French
knights; and in a halt of nine days, the camp was plentifully
supplied with forage and provisions.</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: The birth and dignity of Andrew Dandolo gave him
the motive and the means of searching in the archives of Venice
the memorable story of his ancestor. His brevity seems to accuse
the copious and more recent narratives of Sanudo, (in Muratori,
Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. xxii.,) Blondus, Sabellicus, and
Rhamnusius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This description rather belongs to the first
setting sail of the expedition from Venice, before the siege of
Zara. The armament did not return to Venice. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: Villehardouin, No. 62. His feelings and
expressions are original: he often weeps, but he rejoices in the
glories and perils of war with a spirit unknown to a sedentary
writer.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: In this voyage, almost all the geographical
names are corrupted by the Latins. The modern appellation of
Chalcis, and all Euba, is derived from its
<strong><em>Euripus</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Evripo</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Negri-po</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Negropont</em></strong>, which dishonors our maps,
(D'Anville, G&eacute;ographie Ancienne, tom. i. p. 263.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Et sachiez que il ni ot si hardi cui le cuer ne
fremist, (c. 66.) . . Chascuns regardoit ses armes . . . . que
par tems en arons mestier, (c. 67.) Such is the honesty of
courage.]</p>

<p>In relating the invasion of a great empire, it may seem
strange that I have not described the obstacles which should have
checked the progress of the strangers. The Greeks, in truth, were
an unwarlike people; but they were rich, industrious, and subject
to the will of a single man: had that man been capable of fear,
when his enemies were at a distance, or of courage, when they
approached his person. The first rumor of his nephew's alliance
with the French and Venetians was despised by the usurper
Alexius: his flatterers persuaded him, that in this contempt he
was bold and sincere; and each evening, in the close of the
banquet, he thrice discomfited the Barbarians of the West. These
Barbarians had been justly terrified by the report of his naval
power; and the sixteen hundred fishing boats of Constantinople
^58 could have manned a fleet, to sink them in the Adriatic, or
stop their entrance in the mouth of the Hellespont. But all force
may be annihilated by the negligence of the prince and the
venality of his ministers. The great duke, or admiral, made a
scandalous, almost a public, auction of the sails, the masts, and
the rigging: the royal forests were reserved for the more
important purpose of the chase; and the trees, says Nicetas, were
guarded by the eunuchs, like the groves of religious worship. ^59
From his dream of pride, Alexius was awakened by the siege of
Zara, and the rapid advances of the Latins; as soon as he saw the
danger was real, he thought it inevitable, and his vain
presumption was lost in abject despondency and despair. He
suffered these contemptible Barbarians to pitch their camp in the
sight of the palace; and his apprehensions were thinly disguised
by the pomp and menace of a suppliant embassy. The sovereign of
the Romans was astonished (his ambassadors were instructed to
say) at the hostile appearance of the strangers. If these
pilgrims were sincere in their vow for the deliverance of
Jerusalem, his voice must applaud, and his treasures should
assist, their pious design but should they dare to invade the
sanctuary of empire, their numbers, were they ten times more
considerable, should not protect them from his just resentment.
The answer of the doge and barons was simple and magnanimous. "In
the cause of honor and justice," they said, "we despise the
usurper of Greece, his threats, and his offers.
<strong><em>Our</em></strong> friendship and
<strong><em>his</em></strong> allegiance are due to the lawful
heir, to the young prince, who is seated among us, and to his
father, the emperor Isaac, who has been deprived of his sceptre,
his freedom, and his eyes, by the crime of an ungrateful brother.
Let that brother confess his guilt, and implore forgiveness, and
we ourselves will intercede, that he may be permitted to live in
affluence and security. But let him not insult us by a second
message; our reply will be made in arms, in the palace of
Constantinople."</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Eandem urbem plus in solis navibus piscatorum
abundare, quam illos in toto navigio. Habebat enim mille et
sexcentas piscatorias naves . . . . . Bellicas autem sive
mercatorias habebant infinit&aelig; multitudinis et portum
tutissimum. Gunther, Hist. C. P. c. 8, p. 10.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Kaqaper iervn alsewn, eipein de kai Jeojuteutwn
paradeiswn ejeid?onto toutwni. Nicetas in Alex. Comneno, l. iii.
c. 9, p. 348.]</p>

<p>On the tenth day of their encampment at Scutari, the crusaders
prepared themselves, as soldiers and as Catholics, for the
passage of the Bosphorus. Perilous indeed was the adventure; the
stream was broad and rapid: in a calm the current of the Euxine
might drive down the liquid and unextinguishable fires of the
Greeks; and the opposite shores of Europe were defended by
seventy thousand horse and foot in formidable array. On this
memorable day, which happened to be bright and pleasant, the
Latins were distributed in six battles or divisions; the first,
or vanguard, was led by the count of Flanders, one of the most
powerful of the Christian princes in the skill and number of his
crossbows. The four successive battles of the French were
commanded by his brother Henry, the counts of St. Pol and Blois,
and Matthew of Montmorency; the last of whom was honored by the
voluntary service of the marshal and nobles of Champagne. The
sixth division, the rear-guard and reserve of the army, was
conducted by the marquis of Montferrat, at the head of the
Germans and Lombards. The chargers, saddled, with their long
comparisons dragging on the ground, were embarked in the flat
<strong><em>palanders</em></strong>; ^60 and the knights stood by
the side of their horses, in complete armor, their helmets laced,
and their lances in their hands. The numerous train of sergeants
^61 and archers occupied the transports; and each transport was
towed by the strength and swiftness of a galley. The six
divisions traversed the Bosphorus, without encountering an enemy
or an obstacle: to land the foremost was the wish, to conquer or
die was the resolution, of every division and of every soldier.
Jealous of the preeminence of danger, the knights in their heavy
armor leaped into the sea, when it rose as high as their girdle;
the sergeants and archers were animated by their valor; and the
squires, letting down the draw-bridges of the palanders, led the
horses to the shore. Before their squadrons could mount, and
form, and couch their Lances, the seventy thousand Greeks had
vanished from their sight: the timid Alexius gave the example to
his troops; and it was only by the plunder of his rich pavilions
that the Latins were informed that they had fought against an
emperor. In the first consternation of the flying enemy, they
resolved, by a double attack, to open the entrance of the harbor.
The tower of Galata, ^62 in the suburb of Pera, was attacked and
stormed by the French, while the Venetians assumed the more
difficult task of forcing the boom or chain that was stretched
from that tower to the Byzantine shore. After some fruitless
attempts, their intrepid perseverance prevailed: twenty ships of
war, the relics of the Grecian navy, were either sunk or taken:
the enormous and massy links of iron were cut asunder by the
shears, or broken by the weight, of the galleys; ^63 and the
Venetian fleet, safe and triumphant, rode at anchor in the port
of Constantinople. By these daring achievements, a remnant of
twenty thousand Latins solicited the license of besieging a
capital which contained above four hundred thousand inhabitants,
^64 able, though not willing, to bear arms in defence of their
country. Such an account would indeed suppose a population of
near two millions; but whatever abatement may be required in the
numbers of the Greeks, the <strong><em>belief</em></strong> of
those numbers will equally exalt the fearless spirit of their
assailants.</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: From the version of Vignere I adopt the
well-sounding word <strong><em>palander</em></strong>, which is
still used, I believe, in the Mediterranean. But had I written in
French, I should have preserved the original and expressive
denomination of <strong><em>vessiers</em></strong> or
<strong><em>huissiers</em></strong>, from the
<strong><em>huis</em></strong> or door which was let down as a
draw-bridge; but which, at sea, was closed into the side of the
ship, (see Ducange au Villehardouin, No. 14, and Joinville. p.
27, 28, edit. du Louvre.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: To avoid the vague expressions of followers,
&amp;c., I use, after Villehardouin, the word
<strong><em>sergeants</em></strong> for all horsemen who were not
knights. There were sergeants at arms, and sergeants at law; and
if we visit the parade and Westminster Hall, we may observe the
strange result of the distinction, (Ducange, Glossar. Latin,
<strong><em>Servientes</em></strong>, &amp;c., tom. vi. p.
226--231.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: It is needless to observe, that on the subject
of Galata, the chain, &amp;c., Ducange is accurate and full.
Consult likewise the proper chapters of the C. P. Christiana of
the same author. The inhabitants of Galata were so vain and
ignorant, that they applied to themselves St. Paul's Epistle to
the Galatians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: The vessel that broke the chain was named the
Eagle, <strong><em>Aquila</em></strong>, (Dandolo, Chronicon, p.
322,) which Blondus (de Gestis Venet.) has changed into
<strong><em>Aquilo</em></strong>, the north wind. Ducange
(Observations, No. 83) maintains the latter reading; but he had
not seen the respectable text of Dandolo, nor did he enough
consider the topography of the harbor. The south-east would have
been a more effectual wind. (Note to Wilken, vol. v. p.
215.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: Quatre cens mil homes ou plus, (Villehardouin,
No. 134,) must be understood of <strong><em>men</em></strong> of
a military age. Le Beau (Hist. du. Bas Empire, tom. xx. p. 417)
allows Constantinople a million of inhabitants, of whom 60,000
horse, and an infinite number of foot-soldiers. In its present
decay, the capital of the Ottoman empire may contain 400,000
souls, (Bell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 401, 402;) but as the Turks
keep no registers, and as circumstances are fallacious, it is
impossible to ascertain (Niebuhr, Voyage en Arabie, tom. i. p.
18, 19) the real populousness of their cities.]</p>

<p>In the choice of the attack, the French and Venetians were
divided by their habits of life and warfare. The former affirmed
with truth, that Constantinople was most accessible on the side
of the sea and the harbor. The latter might assert with honor,
that they had long enough trusted their lives and fortunes to a
frail bark and a precarious element, and loudly demanded a trial
of knighthood, a firm ground, and a close onset, either on foot
or on horseback. After a prudent compromise, of employing the two
nations by sea and land, in the service best suited to their
character, the fleet covering the army, they both proceeded from
the entrance to the extremity of the harbor: the stone bridge of
the river was hastily repaired; and the six battles of the French
formed their encampment against the front of the capital, the
basis of the triangle which runs about four miles from the port
to the Propontis. ^65 On the edge of a broad ditch, at the foot
of a lofty rampart, they had leisure to contemplate the
difficulties of their enterprise. The gates to the right and left
of their narrow camp poured forth frequent sallies of cavalry and
light-infantry, which cut off their stragglers, swept the country
of provisions, sounded the alarm five or six times in the course
of each day, and compelled them to plant a palisade, and sink an
intrenchment, for their immediate safety. In the supplies and
convoys the Venetians had been too sparing, or the Franks too
voracious: the usual complaints of hunger and scarcity were
heard, and perhaps felt their stock of flour would be exhausted
in three weeks; and their disgust of salt meat tempted them to
taste the flesh of their horses. The trembling usurper was
supported by Theodore Lascaris, his son-in-law, a valiant youth,
who aspired to save and to rule his country; the Greeks,
regardless of that country, were awakened to the defence of their
religion; but their firmest hope was in the strength and spirit
of the Varangian guards, of the Danes and English, as they are
named in the writers of the times. ^66 After ten days' incessant
labor, the ground was levelled, the ditch filled, the approaches
of the besiegers were regularly made, and two hundred and fifty
engines of assault exercised their various powers to clear the
rampart, to batter the walls, and to sap the foundations. On the
first appearance of a breach, the scaling-ladders were applied:
the numbers that defended the vantage ground repulsed and
oppressed the adventurous Latins; but they admired the resolution
of fifteen knights and sergeants, who had gained the ascent, and
maintained their perilous station till they were precipitated or
made prisoners by the Imperial guards. On the side of the harbor
the naval attack was more successfully conducted by the
Venetians; and that industrious people employed every resource
that was known and practiced before the invention of gunpowder. A
double line, three bow-shots in front, was formed by the galleys
and ships; and the swift motion of the former was supported by
the weight and loftiness of the latter, whose decks, and poops,
and turret, were the platforms of military engines, that
discharged their shot over the heads of the first line. The
soldiers, who leaped from the galleys on shore, immediately
planted and ascended their scaling-ladders, while the large
ships, advancing more slowly into the intervals, and lowering a
draw-bridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the
rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the doge, a venerable and
conspicuous form, stood aloft in complete armor on the prow of
his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before
him; his threats, promises, and exhortations, urged the diligence
of the rowers; his vessel was the first that struck; and Dandolo
was the first warrior on the shore. The nations admired the
magnanimity of the blind old man, without reflecting that his age
and infirmities diminished the price of life, and enhanced the
value of immortal glory. On a sudden, by an invisible hand, (for
the standard-bearer was probably slain,) the banner of the
republic was fixed on the rampart: twenty-five towers were
rapidly occupied; and, by the cruel expedient of fire, the Greeks
were driven from the adjacent quarter. The doge had despatched
the intelligence of his success, when he was checked by the
danger of his confederates. Nobly declaring that he would rather
die with the pilgrims than gain a victory by their destruction,
Dandolo relinquished his advantage, recalled his troops, and
hastened to the scene of action. He found the six weary
diminutive <strong><em>battles</em></strong> of the French
encompassed by sixty squadrons of the Greek cavalry, the least of
which was more numerous than the largest of their divisions.
Shame and despair had provoked Alexius to the last effort of a
general sally; but he was awed by the firm order and manly aspect
of the Latins; and, after skirmishing at a distance, withdrew his
troops in the close of the evening. The silence or tumult of the
night exasperated his fears; and the timid usurper, collecting a
treasure of ten thousand pounds of gold, basely deserted his
wife, his people, and his fortune; threw himself into a bark;
stole through the Bosphorus; and landed in shameful safety in an
obscure harbor of Thrace. As soon as they were apprised of his
flight, the Greek nobles sought pardon and peace in the dungeon
where the blind Isaac expected each hour the visit of the
executioner. Again saved and exalted by the vicissitudes of
fortune, the captive in his Imperial robes was replace on the
throne, and surrounded with prostrate slaves, whose real terror
and affected joy he was incapable of discerning. At the dawn of
day, hostilities were suspended, and the Latin chiefs were
surprised by a message from the lawful and reigning emperor, who
was impatient to embrace his son, and to reward his generous
deliverers. ^67</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: On the most correct plans of Constantinople, I
know not how to measure more than 4000 paces. Yet Villehardouin
computes the space at three leagues, (No. 86.) If his eye were
not deceived, he must reckon by the old Gallic league of 1500
paces, which might still be used in Champagne.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: The guards, the Varangi, are styled by
Villehardouin, (No. 89, 95) Englois et Danois avec leurs haches.
Whatever had been their origin, a French pilgrim could not be
mistaken in the nations of which they were at that time
composed.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: For the first siege and conquest of
Constantinople, we may read the original letter of the crusaders
to Innocent III., Gesta, c. 91, p. 533, 534. Villehardouin, No.
75--99. Nicetas, in Alexio Comnen. l. iii. c. 10, p. 349--352.
Dandolo, in Chron. p. 322. Gunther, and his abbot Martin, were
not yet returned from their obstinate pilgrim age to Jerusalem,
or St. John d'Acre, where the greatest part of the company had
died of the plague.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LX: The Fourth Crusade. -- Part
II.</em></strong></p>

<p>But these generous deliverers were unwilling to release their
hostage, till they had obtained from his father the payment, or
at least the promise, of their recompense. They chose four
ambassadors, Matthew of Montmorency, our historian the marshal of
Champagne, and two Venetians, to congratulate the emperor. The
gates were thrown open on their approach, the streets on both
sides were lined with the battle axes of the Danish and English
guard: the presence-chamber glittered with gold and jewels, the
false substitute of virtue and power: by the side of the blind
Isaac his wife was seated, the sister of the king of Hungary: and
by her appearance, the noble matrons of Greece were drawn from
their domestic retirement, and mingled with the circle of
senators and soldiers. The Latins, by the mouth of the marshal,
spoke like men conscious of their merits, but who respected the
work of their own hands; and the emperor clearly understood, that
his son's engagements with Venice and the pilgrims must be
ratified without hesitation or delay. Withdrawing into a private
chamber with the empress, a chamberlain, an interpreter, and the
four ambassadors, the father of young Alexius inquired with some
anxiety into the nature of his stipulations. The submission of
the Eastern empire to the pope, the succor of the Holy Land, and
a present contribution of two hundred thousand marks of silver.
-- "These conditions are weighty," was his prudent reply: "they
are hard to accept, and difficult to perform. But no conditions
can exceed the measure of your services and deserts." After this
satisfactory assurance, the barons mounted on horseback, and
introduced the heir of Constantinople to the city and palace: his
youth and marvellous adventures engaged every heart in his favor,
and Alexius was solemnly crowned with his father in the dome of
St. Sophia. In the first days of his reign, the people, already
blessed with the restoration of plenty and peace, was delighted
by the joyful catastrophe of the tragedy; and the discontent of
the nobles, their regret, and their fears, were covered by the
polished surface of pleasure and loyalty The mixture of two
discordant nations in the same capital might have been pregnant
with mischief and danger; and the suburb of Galata, or Pera, was
assigned for the quarters of the French and Venetians. But the
liberty of trade and familiar intercourse was allowed between the
friendly nations: and each day the pilgrims were tempted by
devotion or curiosity to visit the churches and palaces of
Constantinople. Their rude minds, insensible perhaps of the finer
arts, were astonished by the magnificent scenery: and the poverty
of their native towns enhanced the populousness and riches of the
first metropolis of Christendom. ^68 Descending from his state,
young Alexius was prompted by interest and gratitude to repeat
his frequent and familiar visits to his Latin allies; and in the
freedom of the table, the gay petulance of the French sometimes
forgot the emperor of the East. ^69 In their most serious
conferences, it was agreed, that the reunion of the two churches
must be the result of patience and time; but avarice was less
tractable than zeal; and a larger sum was instantly disbursed to
appease the wants, and silence the importunity, of the crusaders.
^70 Alexius was alarmed by the approaching hour of their
departure: their absence might have relieved him from the
engagement which he was yet incapable of performing; but his
friends would have left him, naked and alone, to the caprice and
prejudice of a perfidious nation. He wished to bribe their stay,
the delay of a year, by undertaking to defray their expense, and
to satisfy, in their name, the freight of the Venetian vessels.
The offer was agitated in the council of the barons; and, after a
repetition of their debates and scruples, a majority of votes
again acquiesced in the advice of the doge and the prayer of the
young emperor. At the price of sixteen hundred pounds of gold, he
prevailed on the marquis of Montferrat to lead him with an army
round the provinces of Europe; to establish his authority, and
pursue his uncle, while Constantinople was awed by the presence
of Baldwin and his confederates of France and Flanders. The
expedition was successful: the blind emperor exulted in the
success of his arms, and listened to the predictions of his
flatterers, that the same Providence which had raised him from
the dungeon to the throne, would heal his gout, restore his
sight, and watch over the long prosperity of his reign. Yet the
mind of the suspicious old man was tormented by the rising
glories of his son; nor could his pride conceal from his envy,
that, while his own name was pronounced in faint and reluctant
acclamations, the royal youth was the theme of spontaneous and
universal praise. ^71</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: Compare, in the rude energy of Villehardouin,
(No. 66, 100,) the inside and outside views of Constantinople,
and their impression on the minds of the pilgrims: cette ville
(says he) que de toutes les autres ere souveraine. See the
parallel passages of Fulcherius Carnotensis, Hist. Hierosol. l.
i. c. 4, and Will. Tyr. ii. 3, xx. 26.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: As they played at dice, the Latins took off his
diadem, and clapped on his head a woollen or hairy cap, to
megaloprepeV kai pagkleiston katerrupainen onoma, (Nicetas, p.
358.) If these merry companions were Venetians, it was the
insolence of trade and a commonwealth.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: Villehardouin, No. 101. Dandolo, p. 322. The
doge affirms, that the Venetians were paid more slowly than the
French; but he owns, that the histories of the two nations
differed on that subject. Had he read Villehardouin? The Greeks
complained, however, good totius Gr&aelig;ci&aelig; opes
transtulisset, (Gunther, Hist. C. P. c 13) See the lamentations
and invectives of Nicetas, (p. 355.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: The reign of Alexius Comnenus occupies three
books in Nicetas, p. 291--352. The short restoration of Isaac and
his son is despatched in five chapters, p. 352--362.]</p>

<p>By the recent invasion, the Greeks were awakened from a dream
of nine centuries; from the vain presumption that the capital of
the Roman empire was impregnable to foreign arms. The strangers
of the West had violated the city, and bestowed the sceptre, of
Constantine: their Imperial clients soon became as unpopular as
themselves: the well-known vices of Isaac were rendered still
more contemptible by his infirmities, and the young Alexius was
hated as an apostate, who had renounced the manners and religion
of his country. His secret covenant with the Latins was divulged
or suspected; the people, and especially the clergy, were
devoutly attached to their faith and superstition; and every
convent, and every shop, resounded with the danger of the church
and the tyranny of the pope. ^72 An empty treasury could ill
supply the demands of regal luxury and foreign extortion: the
Greeks refused to avert, by a general tax, the impending evils of
servitude and pillage; the oppression of the rich excited a more
dangerous and personal resentment; and if the emperor melted the
plate, and despoiled the images, of the sanctuary, he seemed to
justify the complaints of heresy and sacrilege. During the
absence of Marquis Boniface and his Imperial pupil,
Constantinople was visited with a calamity which might be justly
imputed to the zeal and indiscretion of the Flemish pilgrims. ^73
In one of their visits to the city, they were scandalized by the
aspect of a mosque or synagogue, in which one God was worshipped,
without a partner or a son. Their effectual mode of controversy
was to attack the infidels with the sword, and their habitation
with fire: but the infidels, and some Christian neighbors,
presumed to defend their lives and properties; and the flames
which bigotry had kindled, consumed the most orthodox and
innocent structures. During eight days and nights, the
conflagration spread above a league in front, from the harbor to
the Propontis, over the thickest and most populous regions of the
city. It is not easy to count the stately churches and palaces
that were reduced to a smoking ruin, to value the merchandise
that perished in the trading streets, or to number the families
that were involved in the common destruction. By this outrage,
which the doge and the barons in vain affected to disclaim, the
name of the Latins became still more unpopular; and the colony of
that nation, above fifteen thousand persons, consulted their
safety in a hasty retreat from the city to the protection of
their standard in the suburb of Pera. The emperor returned in
triumph; but the firmest and most dexterous policy would have
been insufficient to steer him through the tempest, which
overwhelmed the person and government of that unhappy youth. His
own inclination, and his father's advice, attached him to his
benefactors; but Alexius hesitated between gratitude and
patriotism, between the fear of his subjects and of his allies.
^74 By his feeble and fluctuating conduct he lost the esteem and
confidence of both; and, while he invited the marquis of
Monferrat to occupy the palace, he suffered the nobles to
conspire, and the people to arm, for the deliverance of their
country. Regardless of his painful situation, the Latin chiefs
repeated their demands, resented his delays, suspected his
intentions, and exacted a decisive answer of peace or war. The
haughty summons was delivered by three French knights and three
Venetian deputies, who girded their swords, mounted their horses,
pierced through the angry multitude, and entered, with a fearful
countenance, the palace and presence of the Greek emperor. In a
peremptory tone, they recapitulated their services and his
engagements; and boldly declared, that unless their just claims
were fully and immediately satisfied, they should no longer hold
him either as a sovereign or a friend. After this defiance, the
first that had ever wounded an Imperial ear, they departed
without betraying any symptoms of fear; but their escape from a
servile palace and a furious city astonished the ambassadors
themselves; and their return to the camp was the signal of mutual
hostility.</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: When Nicetas reproaches Alexius for his impious
league, he bestows the harshest names on the pope's new religion,
meizon kai atopwtaton . . . parektrophn pistewV . . . tvn tou
Papa pronomiwn kainismon, . . . metaqesin te kai metapoihsin tvn
palaivn 'RwmaioiV ?eqvn, (p. 348.) Such was the sincere language
of every Greek to the last gasp of the empire.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: Nicetas (p. 355) is positive in the charge, and
specifies the Flemings, (FlamioneV,) though he is wrong in
supposing it an ancient name. Villehardouin (No. 107) exculpates
the barons, and is ignorant (perhaps affectedly ignorant) of the
names of the guilty.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: Compare the suspicions and complaints of Nicetas
(p. 359--362) with the blunt charges of Baldwin of Flanders,
(Gesta Innocent III. c. 92, p. 534,) cum patriarcha et mole
nobilium, nobis promises perjurus et mendax.]</p>

<p>Among the Greeks, all authority and wisdom were overborne by
the impetuous multitude, who mistook their rage for valor, their
numbers for strength, and their fanaticism for the support and
inspiration of Heaven. In the eyes of both nations Alexius was
false and contemptible; the base and spurious race of the Angeli
was rejected with clamorous disdain; and the people of
Constantinople encompassed the senate, to demand at their hands a
more worthy emperor. To every senator, conspicuous by his birth
or dignity, they successively presented the purple: by each
senator the deadly garment was repulsed: the contest lasted three
days; and we may learn from the historian Nicetas, one of the
members of the assembly, that fear and weaknesses were the
guardians of their loyalty. A phantom, who vanished in oblivion,
was forcibly proclaimed by the crowd: ^75 but the author of the
tumult, and the leader of the war, was a prince of the house of
Ducas; and his common appellation of Alexius must be
discriminated by the epithet of Mourzoufle, ^76 which in the
vulgar idiom expressed the close junction of his black and shaggy
eyebrows. At once a patriot and a courtier, the perfidious
Mourzoufle, who was not destitute of cunning and courage, opposed
the Latins both in speech and action, inflamed the passions and
prejudices of the Greeks, and insinuated himself into the favor
and confidence of Alexius, who trusted him with the office of
great chamberlain, and tinged his buskins with the colors of
royalty. At the dead of night, he rushed into the bed-chamber
with an affrighted aspect, exclaiming, that the palace was
attacked by the people and betrayed by the guards. Starting from
his couch, the unsuspecting prince threw himself into the arms of
his enemy, who had contrived his escape by a private staircase.
But that staircase terminated in a prison: Alexius was seized,
stripped, and loaded with chains; and, after tasting some days
the bitterness of death, he was poisoned, or strangled, or beaten
with clubs, at the command, or in the presence, of the tyrant.
The emperor Isaac Angelus soon followed his son to the grave; and
Mourzoufle, perhaps, might spare the superfluous crime of
hastening the extinction of impotence and blindness.</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: His name was Nicholas Canabus: he deserved the
praise of Nicetas and the vengeance of Mourzoufle, (p. 362.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: Villehardouin (No. 116) speaks of him as a
favorite, without knowing that he was a prince of the blood,
<strong><em>Angelus</em></strong> and
<strong><em>Ducas</em></strong>. Ducange, who pries into every
corner, believes him to be the son of Isaac Ducas Sebastocrator,
and second cousin of young Alexius.]</p>

<p>The death of the emperors, and the usurpation of Mourzoufle,
had changed the nature of the quarrel. It was no longer the
disagreement of allies who overvalued their services, or
neglected their obligations: the French and Venetians forgot
their complaints against Alexius, dropped a tear on the untimely
fate of their companion, and swore revenge against the perfidious
nation who had crowned his assassin. Yet the prudent doge was
still inclined to negotiate: he asked as a debt, a subsidy, or a
fine, fifty thousand pounds of gold, about two millions sterling;
nor would the conference have been abruptly broken, if the zeal,
or policy, of Mourzoufle had not refused to sacrifice the Greek
church to the safety of the state. ^77 Amidst the invectives of
his foreign and domestic enemies, we may discern, that he was not
unworthy of the character which he had assumed, of the public
champion: the second siege of Constantinople was far more
laborious than the first; the treasury was replenished, and
discipline was restored, by a severe inquisition into the abuses
of the former reign; and Mourzoufle, an iron mace in his hand,
visiting the posts, and affecting the port and aspect of a
warrior, was an object of terror to his soldiers, at least, and
to his kinsmen. Before and after the death of Alexius, the Greeks
made two vigorous and well-conducted attempts to burn the navy in
the harbor; but the skill and courage of the Venetians repulsed
the fire-ships; and the vagrant flames wasted themselves without
injury in the sea. ^78 In a nocturnal sally the Greek emperor was
vanquished by Henry, brother of the count of Flanders: the
advantages of number and surprise aggravated the shame of his
defeat: his buckler was found on the field of battle; and the
Imperial standard, ^79 a divine image of the Virgin, was
presented, as a trophy and a relic to the Cistercian monks, the
disciples of St. Bernard. Near three months, without excepting
the holy season of Lent, were consumed in skirmishes and
preparations, before the Latins were ready or resolved for a
general assault. The land fortifications had been found
impregnable; and the Venetian pilots represented, that, on the
shore of the Propontis, the anchorage was unsafe, and the ships
must be driven by the current far away to the straits of the
Hellespont; a prospect not unpleasing to the reluctant pilgrims,
who sought every opportunity of breaking the army. From the
harbor, therefore, the assault was determined by the assailants,
and expected by the besieged; and the emperor had placed his
scarlet pavilions on a neighboring height, to direct and animate
the efforts of his troops. A fearless spectator, whose mind could
entertain the ideas of pomp and pleasure, might have admired the
long array of two embattled armies, which extended above half a
league, the one on the ships and galleys, the other on the walls
and towers raised above the ordinary level by several stages of
wooden turrets. Their first fury was spent in the discharge of
darts, stones, and fire, from the engines; but the water was
deep; the French were bold; the Venetians were skilful; they
approached the walls; and a desperate conflict of swords, spears,
and battle-axes, was fought on the trembling bridges that
grappled the floating, to the stable, batteries. In more than a
hundred places, the assault was urged, and the defence was
sustained; till the superiority of ground and numbers finally
prevailed, and the Latin trumpets sounded a retreat. On the
ensuing days, the attack was renewed with equal vigor, and a
similar event; and, in the night, the doge and the barons held a
council, apprehensive only for the public danger: not a voice
pronounced the words of escape or treaty; and each warrior,
according to his temper, embraced the hope of victory, or the
assurance of a glorious death. ^80 By the experience of the
former siege, the Greeks were instructed, but the Latins were
animated; and the knowledge that Constantinople might be taken,
was of more avail than the local precautions which that knowledge
had inspired for its defence. In the third assault, two ships
were linked together to double their strength; a strong north
wind drove them on the shore; the bishops of Troyes and Soissons
led the van; and the auspicious names of the
<strong><em>pilgrim</em></strong> and the
<strong><em>paradise</em></strong> resounded along the line. ^81
The episcopal banners were displayed on the walls; a hundred
marks of silver had been promised to the first adventurers; and
if their reward was intercepted by death, their names have been
immortalized by fame. ^* Four towers were scaled; three gates
were burst open; and the French knights, who might tremble on the
waves, felt themselves invincible on horseback on the solid
ground. Shall I relate that the thousands who guarded the
emperor's person fled on the approach, and before the lance, of a
single warrior? Their ignominious flight is attested by their
countryman Nicetas: an army of phantoms marched with the French
hero, and he was magnified to a giant in the eyes of the Greeks.
^82 While the fugitives deserted their posts and cast away their
arms, the Latins entered the city under the banners of their
leaders: the streets and gates opened for their passage; and
either design or accident kindled a third conflagration, which
consumed in a few hours the measure of three of the largest
cities of France. ^83 In the close of evening, the barons checked
their troops, and fortified their stations: They were awed by the
extent and populousness of the capital, which might yet require
the labor of a month, if the churches and palaces were conscious
of their internal strength. But in the morning, a suppliant
procession, with crosses and images, announced the submission of
the Greeks, and deprecated the wrath of the conquerors: the
usurper escaped through the golden gate: the palaces of
Blachern&aelig; and Boucoleon were occupied by the count of
Flanders and the marquis of Montferrat; and the empire, which
still bore the name of Constantine, and the title of Roman, was
subverted by the arms of the Latin pilgrims. ^84</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: This negotiation, probable in itself, and
attested by Nicetas, (p 65,) is omitted as scandalous by the
delicacy of Dandolo and Villehardouin. *</p>

<p>Note: * Wilken places it before the death of Alexius, vol. v.
p. 276. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: Baldwin mentions both attempts to fire the
fleet, (Gest. c. 92, p. 534, 535;) Villehardouin, (No. 113--15)
only describes the first. It is remarkable that neither of these
warriors observe any peculiar properties in the Greek fire.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: Ducange (No. 119) pours forth a torrent of
learning on the <strong><em>Gonfanon Imperial</em></strong>. This
banner of the Virgin is shown at Venice as a trophy and relic: if
it be genuine the pious doge must have cheated the monks of
Citeaux.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: Villehardouin (No. 126) confesses, that mult ere
grant peril; and Guntherus (Hist. C. P. c. 13) affirms, that
nulla spes victori&aelig; arridere poterat. Yet the knight
despises those who thought of flight, and the monk praises his
countrymen who were resolved on death.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: Baldwin, and all the writers, honor the names of
these two galleys, felici auspicio.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Pietro Alberti, a Venetian noble and Andrew
d'Amboise a French knight. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: With an allusion to Homer, Nicetas calls him
enneorguioV, nine orgy&aelig;, or eighteen yards high, a stature
which would, indeed, have excused the terror of the Greek. On
this occasion, the historian seems fonder of the marvellous than
of his country, or perhaps of truth. Baldwin exclaims in the
words of the psalmist, persequitur unus ex nobis centum
alienos.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: Villehardouin (No. 130) is again ignorant of the
authors of <strong><em>this</em></strong> more legitimate fire,
which is ascribed by Gunther to a quidam comes Teutonicus, (c.
14.) They seem ashamed, the incendiaries!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: For the second siege and conquest of
Constantinople, see Villehardouin (No. 113--132,) Baldwin's iid
Epistle to Innocent III., (Gesta c. 92, p. 534--537,) with the
whole reign of Mourzoufle, in Nicetas, (p 363--375;) and borrowed
some hints from Dandolo (Chron. Venet. p. 323--330) and Gunther,
(Hist. C. P. c. 14--18,) who added the decorations of prophecy
and vision. The former produces an oracle of the Erythr&aelig;an
sibyl, of a great armament on the Adriatic, under a blind chief,
against Byzantium, &amp;c. Curious enough, were the prediction
anterior to the fact.]</p>

<p>Constantinople had been taken by storm; and no restraints,
except those of religion and humanity, were imposed on the
conquerors by the laws of war. Boniface, marquis of Montferrat,
still acted as their general; and the Greeks, who revered his
name as that of their future sovereign, were heard to exclaim in
a lamentable tone, "Holy marquis-king, have mercy upon us!" His
prudence or compassion opened the gates of the city to the
fugitives; and he exhorted the soldiers of the cross to spare the
lives of their fellow-Christians. The streams of blood that
flowed down the pages of Nicetas may be reduced to the slaughter
of two thousand of his unresisting countrymen; ^85 and the
greater part was massacred, not by the strangers, but by the
Latins, who had been driven from the city, and who exercised the
revenge of a triumphant faction. Yet of these exiles, some were
less mindful of injuries than of benefits; and Nicetas himself
was indebted for his safety to the generosity of a Venetian
merchant. Pope Innocent the Third accuses the pilgrims for
respecting, in their lust, neither age nor sex, nor religious
profession; and bitterly laments that the deeds of darkness,
fornication, adultery, and incest, were perpetrated in open day;
and that noble matrons and holy nuns were polluted by the grooms
and peasants of the Catholic camp. ^86 It is indeed probable that
the license of victory prompted and covered a multitude of sins:
but it is certain, that the capital of the East contained a stock
of venal or willing beauty, sufficient to satiate the desires of
twenty thousand pilgrims; and female prisoners were no longer
subject to the right or abuse of domestic slavery. The marquis of
Montferrat was the patron of discipline and decency; the count of
Flanders was the mirror of chastity: they had forbidden, under
pain of death, the rape of married women, or virgins, or nuns;
and the proclamation was sometimes invoked by the vanquished ^87
and respected by the victors. Their cruelty and lust were
moderated by the authority of the chiefs, and feelings of the
soldiers; for we are no longer describing an irruption of the
northern savages; and however ferocious they might still appear,
time, policy, and religion had civilized the manners of the
French, and still more of the Italians. But a free scope was
allowed to their avarice, which was glutted, even in the holy
week, by the pillage of Constantinople. The right of victory,
unshackled by any promise or treaty, had confiscated the public
and private wealth of the Greeks; and every hand, according to
its size and strength, might lawfully execute the sentence and
seize the forfeiture. A portable and universal standard of
exchange was found in the coined and uncoined metals of gold and
silver, which each captor, at home or abroad, might convert into
the possessions most suitable to his temper and situation. Of the
treasures, which trade and luxury had accumulated, the silks,
velvets, furs, the gems, spices, and rich movables, were the most
precious, as they could not be procured for money in the ruder
countries of Europe. An order of rapine was instituted; nor was
the share of each individual abandoned to industry or chance.
Under the tremendous penalties of perjury, excommunication, and
death, the Latins were bound to deliver their plunder into the
common stock: three churches were selected for the deposit and
distribution of the spoil: a single share was allotted to a
foot-soldier; two for a sergeant on horseback; four to a knight;
and larger proportions according to the rank and merit of the
barons and princes. For violating this sacred engagement, a
knight belonging to the count of St. Paul was hanged with his
shield and coat of arms round his neck; his example might render
similar offenders more artful and discreet; but avarice was more
powerful than fear; and it is generally believed that the secret
far exceeded the acknowledged plunder. Yet the magnitude of the
prize surpassed the largest scale of experience or expectation.
^88 After the whole had been equally divided between the French
and Venetians, fifty thousand marks were deducted to satisfy the
debts of the former and the demands of the latter. The residue of
the French amounted to four hundred thousand marks of silver, ^89
about eight hundred thousand pounds sterling; nor can I better
appreciate the value of that sum in the public and private
transactions of the age, than by defining it as seven times the
annual revenue of the kingdom of England. ^90</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: Ceciderunt tamen e&acirc; die civium quasi duo
millia, &amp;c., (Gunther, c. 18.) Arithmetic is an excellent
touchstone to try the amplifications of passion and
rhetoric.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: Quidam (says Innocent III., Gesta, c. 94, p.
538) nec religioni, nec &aelig;tati, nec sexui pepercerunt: sed
fornicationes, adulteria, et incestus in oculis omnium
exercentes, non sol&ucirc;m maritatas et viduas, sed et matronas
et virgines Deoque dicatas, exposuerunt spurcitiis garcionum.
Villehardouin takes no notice of these common incidents.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: Nicetas saved, and afterwards married, a noble
virgin, (p. 380,) whom a soldier, eti martusi polloiV onhdon
epibrimwmenoV, had almost violated in spite of the entolai,
entalmata eu gegonotwn.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: Of the general mass of wealth, Gunther observes,
ut de pauperibus et advenis cives ditissimi redderentur, (Hist.
C. P. c. 18; (Villehardouin, (No. 132,) that since the creation,
ne fu tant gaaigni&eacute; dans une ville; Baldwin, (Gesta, c.
92,) ut tantum tota non videatur possidere Latinitas.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: Villehardouin, No. 133--135. Instead of 400,000,
there is a various reading of 500,000. The Venetians had offered
to take the whole booty, and to give 400 marks to each knight,
200 to each priest and horseman, and 100 to each foot-soldier:
they would have been great losers, (Le Beau, Hist. du. Bas Empire
tom. xx. p. 506. I know not from whence.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: At the council of Lyons (A.D. 1245) the English
ambassadors stated the revenue of the crown as below that of the
foreign clergy, which amounted to 60,000 marks a year, (Matthew
Paris, p. 451 Hume's Hist. of England, vol. ii. p. 170.)]</p>

<p>In this great revolution we enjoy the singular felicity of
comparing the narratives of Villehardouin and Nicetas, the
opposite feelings of the marshal of Champagne and the Byzantine
senator. ^91 At the first view it should seem that the wealth of
Constantinople was only transferred from one nation to another;
and that the loss and sorrow of the Greeks is exactly balanced by
the joy and advantage of the Latins. But in the miserable account
of war, the gain is never equivalent to the loss, the pleasure to
the pain; the smiles of the Latins were transient and fallacious;
the Greeks forever wept over the ruins of their country; and
their real calamities were aggravated by sacrilege and mockery.
What benefits accrued to the conquerors from the three fires
which annihilated so vast a portion of the buildings and riches
of the city? What a stock of such things, as could neither be
used nor transported, was maliciously or wantonly destroyed! How
much treasure was idly wasted in gaming, debauchery, and riot!
And what precious objects were bartered for a vile price by the
impatience or ignorance of the soldiers, whose reward was stolen
by the base industry of the last of the Greeks! These alone, who
had nothing to lose, might derive some profit from the
revolution; but the misery of the upper ranks of society is
strongly painted in the personal adventures of Nicetas himself
His stately palace had been reduced to ashes in the second
conflagration; and the senator, with his family and friends,
found an obscure shelter in another house which he possessed near
the church of St. Sophia. It was the door of this mean habitation
that his friend, the Venetian merchant, guarded in the disguise
of a soldier, till Nicetas could save, by a precipitate flight,
the relics of his fortune and the chastity of his daughter. In a
cold, wintry season, these fugitives, nursed in the lap of
prosperity, departed on foot; his wife was with child; the
desertion of their slaves compelled them to carry their baggage
on their own shoulders; and their women, whom they placed in the
centre, were exhorted to conceal their beauty with dirt, instead
of adorning it with paint and jewels Every step was exposed to
insult and danger: the threats of the strangers were less painful
than the taunts of the plebeians, with whom they were now
levelled; nor did the exiles breathe in safety till their
mournful pilgrimage was concluded at Selymbria, above forty miles
from the capital. On the way they overtook the patriarch, without
attendance and almost without apparel, riding on an ass, and
reduced to a state of apostolical poverty, which, had it been
voluntary, might perhaps have been meritorious. In the mean
while, his desolate churches were profaned by the licentiousness
and party zeal of the Latins. After stripping the gems and
pearls, they converted the chalices into drinking-cups; their
tables, on which they gamed and feasted, were covered with the
pictures of Christ and the saints; and they trampled under foot
the most venerable objects of the Christian worship. In the
cathedral of St. Sophia, the ample veil of the sanctuary was rent
asunder for the sake of the golden fringe; and the altar, a
monument of art and riches, was broken in pieces and shared among
the captors. Their mules and horses were laden with the wrought
silver and gilt carvings, which they tore down from the doors and
pulpit; and if the beasts stumbled under the burden, they were
stabbed by their impatient drivers, and the holy pavement
streamed with their impure blood. A prostitute was seated on the
throne of the patriarch; and that daughter of Belial, as she is
styled, sung and danced in the church, to ridicule the hymns and
processions of the Orientals. Nor were the repositories of the
royal dead secure from violation: in the church of the Apostles,
the tombs of the emperors were rifled; and it is said, that after
six centuries the corpse of Justinian was found without any signs
of decay or putrefaction. In the streets, the French and Flemings
clothed themselves and their horses in painted robes and flowing
head-dresses of linen; and the coarse intemperance of their
feasts ^92 insulted the splendid sobriety of the East. To expose
the arms of a people of scribes and scholars, they affected to
display a pen, an inkhorn, and a sheet of paper, without
discerning that the instruments of science and valor were
<strong><em>alike</em></strong> feeble and useless in the hands
of the modern Greeks.</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: The disorders of the sack of Constantinople, and
his own adventures, are feelingly described by Nicetas, p.
367--369, and in the Status Urb. C. P. p. 375--384. His
complaints, even of sacrilege, are justified by Innocent III.,
(Gesta, c. 92;) but Villehardouin does not betray a symptom of
pity or remorse.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: If I rightly apprehend the Greek of Nicetas's
receipts, their favorite dishes were boiled buttocks of beef,
salt pork and peas, and soup made of garlic and sharp or sour
herbs, (p. 382.)]</p>

<p>Their reputation and their language encouraged them, however,
to despise the ignorance and to overlook the progress of the
Latins. ^93 In the love of the arts, the national difference was
still more obvious and real; the Greeks preserved with reverence
the works of their ancestors, which they could not imitate; and,
in the destruction of the statues of Constantinople, we are
provoked to join in the complaints and invectives of the
Byzantine historian. ^94 We have seen how the rising city was
adorned by the vanity and despotism of the Imperial founder: in
the ruins of paganism, some gods and heroes were saved from the
axe of superstition; and the forum and hippodrome were dignified
with the relics of a better age. Several of these are described
by Nicetas, ^95 in a florid and affected style; and from his
descriptions I shall select some interesting particulars.
<strong>1.</strong> The victorious charioteers were cast in
bronze, at their own or the public charge, and fitly placed in
the hippodrome: they stood aloft in their chariots, wheeling
round the goal: the spectators could admire their attitude, and
judge of the resemblance; and of these figures, the most perfect
might have been transported from the Olympic stadium.
<strong>2.</strong> The sphinx, river-horse, and crocodile,
denote the climate and manufacture of Egypt and the spoils of
that ancient province. <strong>3.</strong> The she-wolf suckling
Romulus and Remus, a subject alike pleasing to the
<strong><em>old</em></strong> and the
<strong><em>new</em></strong> Romans, but which could really be
treated before the decline of the Greek sculpture.
<strong>4.</strong> An eagle holding and tearing a serpent in his
talons, a domestic monument of the Byzantines, which they
ascribed, not to a human artist, but to the magic power of the
philosopher Apollonius, who, by this talisman, delivered the city
from such venomous reptiles. <strong>5.</strong> An ass and his
driver, which were erected by Augustus in his colony of
Nicopolis, to commemorate a verbal omen of the victory of Actium.
<strong>6.</strong> An equestrian statue which passed, in the
vulgar opinion, for Joshua, the Jewish conqueror, stretching out
his hand to stop the course of the descending sun. A more
classical tradition recognized the figures of Bellerophon and
Pegasus; and the free attitude of the steed seemed to mark that
he trod on air, rather than on the earth. <strong>7.</strong> A
square and lofty obelisk of brass; the sides were embossed with a
variety of picturesque and rural scenes, birds singing; rustics
laboring, or playing on their pipes; sheep bleating; lambs
skipping; the sea, and a scene of fish and fishing; little naked
cupids laughing, playing, and pelting each other with apples;
and, on the summit, a female figure, turning with the slightest
breath, and thence denominated <strong><em>the wind's
attendant</em></strong>. <strong>8.</strong> The Phrygian
shepherd presenting to Venus the prize of beauty, the apple of
discord. <strong>9.</strong> The incomparable statue of Helen,
which is delineated by Nicetas in the words of admiration and
love: her well-turned feet, snowy arms, rosy lips, bewitching
smiles, swimming eyes, arched eyebrows, the harmony of her shape,
the lightness of her drapery, and her flowing locks that waved in
the wind; a beauty that might have moved her Barbarian destroyers
to pity and remorse. <strong>10.</strong> The manly or divine
form of Hercules, ^96 as he was restored to life by the
masterhand of Lysippus; of such magnitude, that his thumb was
equal to his waist, his leg to the stature, of a common man: ^97
his chest ample, his shoulders broad, his limbs strong and
muscular, his hair curled, his aspect commanding. Without his
bow, or quiver, or club, his lion's skin carelessly thrown over
him, he was seated on an osier basket, his right leg and arm
stretched to the utmost, his left knee bent, and supporting his
elbow, his head reclining on his left hand, his countenance
indignant and pensive. <strong>11.</strong> A colossal statue of
Juno, which had once adorned her temple of Samos, the enormous
head by four yoke of oxen was laboriously drawn to the palace.
<strong>12.</strong> Another colossus, of Pallas or Minerva,
thirty feet in height, and representing with admirable spirit the
attributes and character of the martial maid. Before we accuse
the Latins, it is just to remark, that this Pallas was destroyed
after the first siege, by the fear and superstition of the Greeks
themselves. ^98 The other statues of brass which I have
enumerated were broken and melted by the unfeeling avarice of the
crusaders: the cost and labor were consumed in a moment; the soul
of genius evaporated in smoke; and the remnant of base metal was
coined into money for the payment of the troops. Bronze is not
the most durable of monuments: from the marble forms of Phidias
and Praxiteles, the Latins might turn aside with stupid contempt;
^99 but unless they were crushed by some accidental injury, those
useless stones stood secure on their pedestals. ^100 The most
enlightened of the strangers, above the gross and sensual
pursuits of their countrymen, more piously exercised the right of
conquest in the search and seizure of the relics of the saints.
^101 Immense was the supply of heads and bones, crosses and
images, that were scattered by this revolution over the churches
of Europe; and such was the increase of pilgrimage and oblation,
that no branch, perhaps, of more lucrative plunder was imported
from the East. ^102 Of the writings of antiquity, many that still
existed in the twelfth century, are now lost. But the pilgrims
were not solicitous to save or transport the volumes of an
unknown tongue: the perishable substance of paper or parchment
can only be preserved by the multiplicity of copies; the
literature of the Greeks had almost centred in the metropolis;
and, without computing the extent of our loss, we may drop a tear
over the libraries that have perished in the triple fire of
Constantinople. ^103</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: Nicetas uses very harsh expressions, par
agrammatoiV BarbaroiV, kai teleon analfabhtoiV, (Fragment, apud
Fabric. Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 414.) This reproach, it
is true, applies most strongly to their ignorance of Greek and of
Homer. In their own language, the Latins of the xiith and xiiith
centuries were not destitute of literature. See Harris's
Philological Inquiries, p. iii. c. 9, 10, 11.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: Nicetas was of Chon&aelig; in Phrygia, (the old
Coloss&aelig; of St. Paul:) he raised himself to the honors of
senator, judge of the veil, and great logothete; beheld the fall
of the empire, retired to Nice, and composed an elaborate history
from the death of Alexius Comnenus to the reign of Henry.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: A manuscript of Nicetas in the Bodleian library
contains this curious fragment on the statues of Constantinople,
which fraud, or shame, or rather carelessness, has dropped in the
common editions. It is published by Fabricius, (Bibliot.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 405--416,) and immoderately praised by
the late ingenious Mr. Harris of Salisbury, (Philological
Inquiries, p. iii. c. 5, p. 301--312.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: To illustrate the statue of Hercules, Mr. Harris
quotes a Greek epigram, and engraves a beautiful gem, which does
not, however, copy the attitude of the statue: in the latter,
Hercules had not his club, and his right leg and arm were
extended.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: I transcribe these proportions, which appear to
me inconsistent with each other; and may possibly show, that the
boasted taste of Nicetas was no more than affectation and
vanity.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 98: Nicetas in Isaaco Angelo et Alexio, c. 3, p.
359. The Latin editor very properly observes, that the historian,
in his bombast style, produces ex pulice elephantem.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 99: In two passages of Nicetas (edit. Paris, p. 360.
Fabric. p. 408) the Latins are branded with the lively reproach
of oi tou kalou anerastoi barbaroi, and their avarice of brass is
clearly expressed. Yet the Venetians had the merit of removing
four bronze horses from Constantinople to the place of St. Mark,
(Sanuto, Vite del Dogi, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum,
tom. xxii. p. 534.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 100: Winckelman, Hist. de l'Art. tom. iii. p. 269,
270.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 101: See the pious robbery of the abbot Martin, who
transferred a rich cargo to his monastery of Paris, diocese of
Basil, (Gunther, Hist. C. P. c. 19, 23, 24.) Yet in secreting
this booty, the saint incurred an excommunication, and perhaps
broke his oath. (Compare Wilken vol. v. p. 308. -- M.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 102: Fleury, Hist. Eccles tom. xvi. p.
139--145.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 103: I shall conclude this chapter with the notice
of a modern history, which illustrates the taking of
Constantinople by the Latins; but which has fallen somewhat late
into my hands. Paolo Ramusio, the son of the compiler of Voyages,
was directed by the senate of Venice to write the history of the
conquest: and this order, which he received in his youth, he
executed in a mature age, by an elegant Latin work, de Bello
Constantinopolitano et Imperatoribus Comnenis per Gallos et
Venetos restitutis, (Venet. 1635, in folio.) Ramusio, or
Rhamnusus, transcribes and translates, sequitur ad unguem, a MS.
of Villehardouin, which he possessed; but he enriches his
narrative with Greek and Latin materials, and we are indebted to
him for a correct state of the fleet, the names of the fifty
Venetian nobles who commanded the galleys of the republic, and
the patriot opposition of Pantaleon Barbus to the choice of the
doge for emperor.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French
And Venetians. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians, -- Five
Latin Emperors Of The Houses Of Flanders And Courtenay. -- Their
Wars Against The Bulgarians And Greeks. -- Weakness And Poverty
Of The Latin Empire. -- Recovery Of Constantinople By The Greeks.
-- General Consequences Of The Crusades.</p>

<p>After the death of the lawful princes, the French and
Venetians, confident of justice and victory, agreed to divide and
regulate their future possessions. ^1 It was stipulated by
treaty, that twelve electors, six of either nation, should be
nominated; that a majority should choose the emperor of the East;
and that, if the votes were equal, the decision of chance should
ascertain the successful candidate. To him, with all the titles
and prerogatives of the Byzantine throne, they assigned the two
palaces of Boucoleon and Blachern&aelig;, with a fourth part of
the Greek monarchy. It was defined that the three remaining
portions should be equally shared between the republic of Venice
and the barons of France; that each feudatory, with an honorable
exception for the doge, should acknowledge and perform the duties
of homage and military service to the supreme head of the empire;
that the nation which gave an emperor, should resign to their
brethren the choice of a patriarch; and that the pilgrims,
whatever might be their impatience to visit the Holy Land, should
devote another year to the conquest and defence of the Greek
provinces. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Latins,
the treaty was confirmed and executed; and the first and most
important step was the creation of an emperor. The six electors
of the French nation were all ecclesiastics, the abbot of Loces,
the archbishop elect of Acre in Palestine, and the bishops of
Troyes, Soissons, Halberstadt, and Bethlehem, the last of whom
exercised in the camp the office of pope's legate: their
profession and knowledge were respectable; and as
<strong><em>they</em></strong> could not be the objects, they
were best qualified to be the authors of the choice. The six
Venetians were the principal servants of the state, and in this
list the noble families of Querini and Contarini are still proud
to discover their ancestors. The twelve assembled in the chapel
of the palace; and after the solemn invocation of the Holy Ghost,
they proceeded to deliberate and vote. A just impulse of respect
and gratitude prompted them to crown the virtues of the doge; his
wisdom had inspired their enterprise; and the most youthful
knights might envy and applaud the exploits of blindness and age.
But the patriot Dandolo was devoid of all personal ambition, and
fully satisfied that he had been judged worthy to reign. His
nomination was overruled by the Venetians themselves: his
countrymen, and perhaps his friends, ^2 represented, with the
eloquence of truth, the mischiefs that might arise to national
freedom and the common cause, from the union of two incompatible
characters, of the first magistrate of a republic and the emperor
of the East. The exclusion of the doge left room for the more
equal merits of Boniface and Baldwin; and at their names all
meaner candidates respectfully withdrew. The marquis of
Montferrat was recommended by his mature age and fair reputation,
by the choice of the adventurers, and the wishes of the Greeks;
nor can I believe that Venice, the mistress of the sea, could be
seriously apprehensive of a petty lord at the foot of the Alps.
^3 But the count of Flanders was the chief of a wealthy and
warlike people: he was valiant, pious, and chaste; in the prime
of life, since he was only thirty-two years of age; a descendant
of Charlemagne, a cousin of the king of France, and a compeer of
the prelates and barons who had yielded with reluctance to the
command of a foreigner. Without the chapel, these barons, with
the doge and marquis at their head, expected the decision of the
twelve electors. It was announced by the bishop of Soissons, in
the name of his colleagues: "Ye have sworn to obey the prince
whom we should choose: by our unanimous suffrage, Baldwin count
of Flanders and Hainault is now your sovereign, and the emperor
of the East." He was saluted with loud applause, and the
proclamation was reechoed through the city by the joy of the
Latins, and the trembling adulation of the Greeks. Boniface was
the first to kiss the hand of his rival, and to raise him on the
buckler: and Baldwin was transported to the cathedral, and
solemnly invested with the purple buskins. At the end of three
weeks he was crowned by the legate, in the vacancy of the
patriarch; but the Venetian clergy soon filled the chapter of St.
Sophia, seated Thomas Morosini on the ecclesiastical throne, and
employed every art to perpetuate in their own nation the honors
and benefices of the Greek church. ^4 Without delay the successor
of Constantine instructed Palestine, France, and Rome, of this
memorable revolution. To Palestine he sent, as a trophy, the
gates of Constantinople, and the chain of the harbor; ^5 and
adopted, from the Assise of Jerusalem, the laws or customs best
adapted to a French colony and conquest in the East. In his
epistles, the natives of France are encouraged to swell that
colony, and to secure that conquest, to people a magnificent city
and a fertile land, which will reward the labors both of the
priest and the soldier. He congratulates the Roman pontiff on the
restoration of his authority in the East; invites him to
extinguish the Greek schism by his presence in a general council;
and implores his blessing and forgiveness for the disobedient
pilgrims. Prudence and dignity are blended in the answer of
Innocent. ^6 In the subversion of the Byzantine empire, he
arraigns the vices of man, and adores the providence of God; the
conquerors will be absolved or condemned by their future conduct;
the validity of their treaty depends on the judgment of St.
Peter; but he inculcates their most sacred duty of establishing a
just subordination of obedience and tribute, from the Greeks to
the Latins, from the magistrate to the clergy, and from the
clergy to the pope.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: See the original treaty of partition, in the
Venetian Chronicle of Andrew Dandolo, p. 326--330, and the
subsequent election in Ville hardouin, No. 136--140, with Ducange
in his Observations, and the book of his Histoire de
Constantinople sous l'Empire des Fran&ccedil;ois.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: After mentioning the nomination of the doge by a
French elector his kinsman Andrew Dandolo approves his exclusion,
quidam Venetorum fidelis et nobilis senex, usus oratione satis
probabili, &amp;c., which has been embroidered by modern writers
from Blondus to Le Beau.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Nicetas, (p. 384,) with the vain ignorance of a
Greek, describes the marquis of Montferrat as a
<strong><em>maritime</em></strong> power. Dampardian de oikeisqai
paralion. Was he deceived by the Byzantine theme of Lombardy
which extended along the coast of Calabria?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: They exacted an oath from Thomas Morosini to
appoint no canons of St. Sophia the lawful electors, except
Venetians who had lived ten years at Venice, &amp;c. But the
foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national
monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of Constantinople, only
the first and the last were Venetians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Nicetas, p. 383.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: The Epistles of Innocent III. are a rich fund for
the ecclesiastical and civil institution of the Latin empire of
Constantinople; and the most important of these epistles (of
which the collection in 2 vols. in folio is published by Stephen
Baluze) are inserted in his Gesta, in Muratori, Script. Rerum
Italicarum,, tom. iii. p. l. c. 94--105.]</p>

<p>In the division of the Greek provinces, ^7 the share of the
Venetians was more ample than that of the Latin emperor. No more
than one fourth was appropriated to his domain; a clear moiety of
the remainder was reserved for Venice; and the other moiety was
distributed among the adventures of France and Lombardy. The
venerable Dandolo was proclaimed despot of Romania, and invested
after the Greek fashion with the purple buskins. He ended at
Constantinople his long and glorious life; and if the prerogative
was personal, the title was used by his successors till the
middle of the fourteenth century, with the singular, though true,
addition of lords of one fourth and a half of the Roman empire.
^8 The doge, a slave of state, was seldom permitted to depart
from the helm of the republic; but his place was supplied by the
<strong><em>bail</em></strong>, or regent, who exercised a
supreme jurisdiction over the colony of Venetians: they possessed
three of the eight quarters of the city; and his independent
tribunal was composed of six judges, four counsellors, two
chamberlains two fiscal advocates, and a constable. Their long
experience of the Eastern trade enabled them to select their
portion with discernment: they had rashly accepted the dominion
and defence of Adrianople; but it was the more reasonable aim of
their policy to form a chain of factories, and cities, and
islands, along the maritime coast, from the neighborhood of
Ragusa to the Hellespont and the Bosphorus. The labor and cost of
such extensive conquests exhausted their treasury: they abandoned
their maxims of government, adopted a feudal system, and
contented themselves with the homage of their nobles, ^9 for the
possessions which these private vassals undertook to reduce and
maintain. And thus it was that the family of Sanut acquired the
duchy of Naxos, which involved the greatest part of the
archipelago. For the price of ten thousand marks, the republic
purchased of the marquis of Montferrat the fertile Island of
Crete or Candia, with the ruins of a hundred cities; ^10 but its
improvement was stinted by the proud and narrow spirit of an
aristocracy; ^11 and the wisest senators would confess that the
sea, not the land, was the treasury of St. Mark. In the moiety of
the adventurers the marquis Boniface might claim the most liberal
reward; and, besides the Isle of Crete, his exclusion from the
throne was compensated by the royal title and the provinces
beyond the Hellespont. But he prudently exchanged that distant
and difficult conquest for the kingdom of Thessalonica Macedonia,
twelve days' journey from the capital, where he might be
supported by the neighboring powers of his brother-in-law the
king of Hungary. His progress was hailed by the voluntary or
reluctant acclamations of the natives; and Greece, the proper and
ancient Greece, again received a Latin conqueror, ^12 who trod
with indifference that classic ground. He viewed with a careless
eye the beauties of the valley of Tempe; traversed with a
cautious step the straits of Thermopyl&aelig;; occupied the
unknown cities of Thebes, Athens, and Argos; and assaulted the
fortifications of Corinth and Napoli, ^13 which resisted his
arms. The lots of the Latin pilgrims were regulated by chance, or
choice, or subsequent exchange; and they abused, with intemperate
joy, their triumph over the lives and fortunes of a great people.
After a minute survey of the provinces, they weighed in the
scales of avarice the revenue of each district, the advantage of
the situation, and the ample on scanty supplies for the
maintenance of soldiers and horses. Their presumption claimed and
divided the long-lost dependencies of the Roman sceptre: the Nile
and Euphrates rolled through their imaginary realms; and happy
was the warrior who drew for his prize the palace of the Turkish
sultan of Iconium. ^14 I shall not descend to the pedigree of
families and the rent-roll of estates, but I wish to specify that
the counts of Blois and St. Pol were invested with the duchy of
Nice and the lordship of Demotica: ^15 the principal fiefs were
held by the service of constable, chamberlain, cup-bearer,
butler, and chief cook; and our historian, Jeffrey of
Villehardouin, obtained a fair establishment on the banks of the
Hebrus, and united the double office of marshal of Champagne and
Romania. At the head of his knights and archers, each baron
mounted on horseback to secure the possession of his share, and
their first efforts were generally successful. But the public
force was weakened by their dispersion; and a thousand quarrels
must arise under a law, and among men, whose sole umpire was the
sword. Within three months after the conquest of Constantinople,
the emperor and the king of Thessalonica drew their hostile
followers into the field; they were reconciled by the authority
of the doge, the advice of the marshal, and the firm freedom of
their peers. ^16</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: In the treaty of partition, most of the names are
corrupted by the scribes: they might be restored, and a good map,
suited to the last age of the Byzantine empire, would be an
improvement of geography. But, alas D'Anville is no more!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: Their style was dominus quart&aelig; partis et
dimidi&aelig; imperii Romani, till Giovanni Dolfino, who was
elected doge in the year of 1356, (Sanuto, p. 530, 641.) For the
government of Constantinople, see Ducange, Histoire de C. P. i.
37.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: Ducange (Hist. de C. P. ii. 6) has marked the
conquests made by the state or nobles of Venice of the Islands of
Candia, Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Naxos, Paros, Melos, Andros,
Mycone, Syro, Cea, and Lemnos.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: Boniface sold the Isle of Candia, August 12,
A.D. 1204. See the act in Sanuto, p. 533: but I cannot understand
how it could be his mother's portion, or how she could be the
daughter of an emperor Alexius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: In the year 1212, the doge Peter Zani sent a
colony to Candia, drawn from every quarter of Venice. But in
their savage manners and frequent rebellions, the Candiots may be
compared to the Corsicans under the yoke of Genoa; and when I
compare the accounts of Belon and Tournefort, I cannot discern
much difference between the Venetian and the Turkish island.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: Villehardouin (No. 159, 160, 173--177) and
Nicetas (p. 387--394) describe the expedition into Greece of the
marquis Boniface. The Choniate might derive his information from
his brother Michael, archbishop of Athens, whom he paints as an
orator, a statesman, and a saint. His encomium of Athens, and the
description of Tempe, should be published from the Bodleian MS.
of Nicetas, (Fabric. Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 405,) and
would have deserved Mr. Harris's inquiries.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: Napoli de Romania, or Nauplia, the ancient
seaport of Argos, is still a place of strength and consideration,
situate on a rocky peninsula, with a good harbor, (Chandler's
Travels into Greece, p. 227.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: I have softened the expression of Nicetas, who
strives to expose the presumption of the Franks. See the Rebus
post C. P. expugnatam, p. 375--384.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: A city surrounded by the River Hebrus, and six
leagues to the south of Adrianople, received from its double wall
the Greek name of Didymoteichos, insensibly corrupted into
Demotica and Dimot. I have preferred the more convenient and
modern appellation of Demotica. This place was the last Turkish
residence of Charles XII.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: Their quarrel is told by Villehardouin (No.
146--158) with the spirit of freedom. The merit and reputation of
the marshal are so acknowledged by the Greek historian (p. 387)
mega para touV tvn Dauinwn dunamenou strateumasi: unlike some
modern heroes, whose exploits are only visible in their own
memoirs. *</p>

<p>Note: * William de Champlite, brother of the count of Dijon,
assumed the title of Prince of Achaia: on the death of his
brother, he returned, with regret, to France, to assume his
paternal inheritance, and left Villehardouin his
"<strong><em>bailli</em></strong>," on condition that if he did
not return within a year Villehardouin was to retain an
investiture. Brosset's Add. to Le Beau, vol. xvii. p. 200. M.
Brosset adds, from the Greek chronicler edited by M. Buchon, the
somewhat unknightly trick by which Villehardouin disembarrassed
himself from the troublesome claim of Robert, the cousin of the
count of Dijon. to the succession. He contrived that Robert
should arrive just fifteen days too late; and with the general
concurrence of the assembled knights was himself invested with
the principality. Ibid. p. 283. M.]</p>

<p>Two fugitives, who had reigned at Constantinople, still
asserted the title of emperor; and the subjects of their fallen
throne might be moved to pity by the misfortunes of the elder
Alexius, or excited to revenge by the spirit of Mourzoufle. A
domestic alliance, a common interest, a similar guilt, and the
merit of extinguishing his enemies, a brother and a nephew,
induced the more recent usurper to unite with the former the
relics of his power. Mourzoufle was received with smiles and
honors in the camp of his father Alexius; but the wicked can
never love, and should rarely trust, their fellow-criminals; he
was seized in the bath, deprived of his eyes, stripped of his
troops and treasures, and turned out to wander an object of
horror and contempt to those who with more propriety could hate,
and with more justice could punish, the assassin of the emperor
Isaac and his son. As the tyrant, pursued by fear or remorse, was
stealing over to Asia, he was seized by the Latins of
Constantinople, and condemned, after an open trial, to an
ignominious death. His judges debated the mode of his execution,
the axe, the wheel, or the stake; and it was resolved that
Mourzoufle ^17 should ascend the Theodosian column, a pillar of
white marble of one hundred and forty-seven feet in height. ^18
From the summit he was cast down headlong, and dashed in pieces
on the pavement, in the presence of innumerable spectators, who
filled the forum of Taurus, and admired the accomplishment of an
old prediction, which was explained by this singular event. ^19
The fate of Alexius is less tragical: he was sent by the marquis
a captive to Italy, and a gift to the king of the Romans; but he
had not much to applaud his fortune, if the sentence of
imprisonment and exile were changed from a fortress in the Alps
to a monastery in Asia. But his daughter, before the national
calamity, had been given in marriage to a young hero who
continued the succession, and restored the throne, of the Greek
princes. ^20 The valor of Theodore Lascaris was signalized in the
two sieges of Constantinople. After the flight of Mourzoufle,
when the Latins were already in the city, he offered himself as
their emperor to the soldiers and people; and his ambition, which
might be virtuous, was undoubtedly brave. Could he have infused a
soul into the multitude, they might have crushed the strangers
under their feet: their abject despair refused his aid; and
Theodore retired to breathe the air of freedom in Anatolia,
beyond the immediate view and pursuit of the conquerors. Under
the title, at first of despot, and afterwards of emperor, he drew
to his standard the bolder spirits, who were fortified against
slavery by the contempt of life; and as every means was lawful
for the public safety implored without scruple the alliance of
the Turkish sultan Nice, where Theodore established his
residence, Prusa and Philadelphia, Smyrna and Ephesus, opened
their gates to their deliverer: he derived strength and
reputation from his victories, and even from his defeats; and the
successor of Constantine preserved a fragment of the empire from
the banks of the M&aelig;ander to the suburbs of Nicomedia, and
at length of Constantinople. Another portion, distant and
obscure, was possessed by the lineal heir of the Comneni, a son
of the virtuous Manuel, a grandson of the tyrant Andronicus. His
name was Alexius; and the epithet of great ^* was applied perhaps
to his stature, rather than to his exploits. By the indulgence of
the Angeli, he was appointed governor or duke of Trebizond: ^21
^! his birth gave him ambition, the revolution independence; and,
without changing his title, he reigned in peace from Sinope to
the Phasis, along the coast of the Black Sea. His nameless son
and successor ^!! is described as the vassal of the sultan, whom
he served with two hundred lances: that Comnenian prince was no
more than duke of Trebizond, and the title of emperor was first
assumed by the pride and envy of the grandson of Alexius. In the
West, a third fragment was saved from the common shipwreck by
Michael, a bastard of the house of Angeli, who, before the
revolution, had been known as a hostage, a soldier, and a rebel.
His flight from the camp of the marquis Boniface secured his
freedom; by his marriage with the governor's daughter, he
commanded the important place of Durazzo, assumed the title of
despot, and founded a strong and conspicuous principality in
Epirus, &AElig;tolia, and Thessaly, which have ever been peopled
by a warlike race. The Greeks, who had offered their service to
their new sovereigns, were excluded by the haughty Latins ^22
from all civil and military honors, as a nation born to tremble
and obey. Their resentment prompted them to show that they might
have been useful friends, since they could be dangerous enemies:
their nerves were braced by adversity: whatever was learned or
holy, whatever was noble or valiant, rolled away into the
independent states of Trebizond, Epirus, and Nice; and a single
patrician is marked by the ambiguous praise of attachment and
loyalty to the Franks. The vulgar herd of the cities and the
country would have gladly submitted to a mild and regular
servitude; and the transient disorders of war would have been
obliterated by some years of industry and peace. But peace was
banished, and industry was crushed, in the disorders of the
feudal system. The <strong><em>Roman</em></strong> emperors of
Constantinople, if they were endowed with abilities, were armed
with power for the protection of their subjects: their laws were
wise, and their administration was simple. The Latin throne was
filled by a titular prince, the chief, and often the servant, of
his licentious confederates; the fiefs of the empire, from a
kingdom to a castle, were held and ruled by the sword of the
barons; and their discord, poverty, and ignorance, extended the
ramifications of tyranny to the most sequestered villages. The
Greeks were oppressed by the double weight of the priest, who
were invested with temporal power, and of the soldier, who was
inflamed by fanatic hatred; and the insuperable bar of religion
and language forever separated the stranger and the native. As
long as the crusaders were united at Constantinople, the memory
of their conquest, and the terror of their arms, imposed silence
on the captive land: their dispersion betrayed the smallness of
their numbers and the defects of their discipline; and some
failures and mischances revealed the secret, that they were not
invincible. As the fears of the Greeks abated, their hatred
increased. They murdered; they conspired; and before a year of
slavery had elapsed, they implored, or accepted, the succor of a
Barbarian, whose power they had felt, and whose gratitude they
trusted. ^23</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: See the fate of Mourzoufle in Nicetas, (p. 393,)
Villehardouin, (No. 141--145, 163,) and Guntherus, (c. 20, 21.)
Neither the marshal nor the monk afford a grain of pity for a
tyrant or rebel, whose punishment, however, was more unexampled
than his crime.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: The column of Arcadius, which represents in
basso relievo his victories, or those of his father Theodosius,
is still extant at Constantinople. It is described and measured,
Gyllius, (Topograph. iv. 7,) Banduri, (ad l. i. Antiquit. C. P.
p. 507, &amp;c.,) and Tournefort, (Voyage du Levant, tom. ii.
lettre xii. p. 231.) [Compare Wilken, note, vol. v p. 388. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: The nonsense of Gunther and the modern Greeks
concerning this <strong><em>columna fatidica</em></strong>, is
unworthy of notice; but it is singular enough, that fifty years
before the Latin conquest, the poet Tzetzes, (Chiliad, ix. 277)
relates the dream of a matron, who saw an army in the forum, and
a man sitting on the column, clapping his hands, and uttering a
loud exclamation. *</p>

<p>Note: * We read in the "Chronicle of the Conquest of
Constantinople, and of the Establishment of the French in the
Morea," translated by J A Buchon, Paris, 1825, p. 64 that Leo
VI., called the Philosopher, had prophesied that a perfidious
emperor should be precipitated from the top of this column. The
crusaders considered themselves under an obligation to fulfil
this prophecy. Brosset, note on Le Beau, vol. xvii. p. 180. M
Brosset announces that a complete edition of this work, of which
the original Greek of the first book only has been published by
M. Buchon in preparation, to form part of the new series of the
Byzantine historian. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: The dynasties of Nice, Trebizond, and Epirus (of
which Nicetas saw the origin without much pleasure or hope) are
learnedly explored, and clearly represented, in the Famili&aelig;
Byzantin&aelig; of Ducange.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This was a title, not a personal appellation.
Joinville speaks of the "Grant Comnenie, et sire de
Traffezzontes." Fallmerayer, p. 82. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: Except some facts in Pachymer and Nicephorus
Gregoras, which will hereafter be used, the Byzantine writers
disdain to speak of the empire of Trebizond, or principality of
the <strong><em>Lazi</em></strong>; and among the Latins, it is
conspicuous only in the romancers of the xivth or xvth centuries.
Yet the indefatigable Ducange has dug out (Fam. Byz. p. 192) two
authentic passages in Vincent of Beauvais (l. xxxi. c. 144) and
the prothonotary Ogerius, (apud Wading, A.D. 1279, No. 4.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: On the revolutions of Trebizond under the later
empire down to this period, see Fallmerayer, Geschichte des
Kaiserthums von Trapezunt, ch. iii. The wife of Manuel fled with
her infant sons and her treasure from the relentless enmity of
Isaac Angelus. Fallmerayer conjectures that her arrival enabled
the Greeks of that region to make head against the formidable
Thamar, the Georgian queen of Teflis, p. 42. They gradually
formed a dominion on the banks of the Phasis, which the
distracted government of the Angeli neglected or were unable to
suppress. On the capture of Constantinople by the Latins, Alexius
was joined by many noble fugitives from Constantinople. He had
always retained the names of C&aelig;sar and BasileuV. He now
fixed the seat of his empire at Trebizond; but he had never
abandoned his pretensions to the Byzantine throne, ch. iii.
Fallmerayer appears to make out a triumphant case as to the
assumption of the royal title by Alexius the First. Since the
publication of M. Fallmerayer's work, (M&uuml;nchen, 1827,) M.
Tafel has published, at the end of the opuscula of Eustathius, a
curious chronicle of Trebizond by Michael Panaretas, (Frankfort,
1832.) It gives the succession of the emperors, and some other
curious circumstances of their wars with the several Mahometan
powers. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: The successor of Alexius was his son-in-law
Andronicus I., of the Comnenian family, surnamed Gidon. There
were five successions between Alexius and John, according to
Fallmerayer, p. 103. The troops of Trebizond fought in the army
of Dschelaleddin, the Karismian, against Alaleddin, the Seljukian
sultan of Roum, but as allies rather than vassals, p. 107. It was
after the defeat of Dschelaleddin that they furnished their
contingent to Alai-eddin. Fallmerayer struggles in vain to
mitigate this mark of the subjection of the Comneni to the
sultan. p. 116. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: The portrait of the French Latins is drawn in
Nicetas by the hand of prejudice and resentment: ouden tvn allwn
eqnvn eiV ''AreoV ?rga parasumbeblhsqai sjisin hneiconto all'
oude tiV tvn caritwn h tvn ?mousvn para toiV barbaroiV toutoiV
epexenizeto, kai para touto oimai thn jusin hsan anhmeroi, kai
ton xolon eixon tou logou prstreconta. [P. 791 Ed. Bek.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: I here begin to use, with freedom and
confidence, the eight books of the Histoire de C. P. sous
l'Empire des Fran&ccedil;ois, which Ducange has given as a
supplement to Villehardouin; and which, in a barbarous style,
deserves the praise of an original and classic work.]</p>

<p>The Latin conquerors had been saluted with a solemn and early
embassy from John, or Joannice, or Calo-John, the revolted chief
of the Bulgarians and Walachians. He deemed himself their
brother, as the votary of the Roman pontiff, from whom he had
received the regal title and a holy banner; and in the subversion
of the Greek monarchy, he might aspire to the name of their
friend and accomplice. But Calo-John was astonished to find, that
the Count of Flanders had assumed the pomp and pride of the
successors of Constantine; and his ambassadors were dismissed
with a haughty message, that the rebel must deserve a pardon, by
touching with his forehead the footstool of the Imperial throne.
His resentment ^24 would have exhaled in acts of violence and
blood: his cooler policy watched the rising discontent of the
Greeks; affected a tender concern for their sufferings; and
promised, that their first struggles for freedom should be
supported by his person and kingdom. The conspiracy was
propagated by national hatred, the firmest band of association
and secrecy: the Greeks were impatient to sheathe their daggers
in the breasts of the victorious strangers; but the execution was
prudently delayed, till Henry, the emperor's brother, had
transported the flower of his troops beyond the Hellespont. Most
of the towns and villages of Thrace were true to the moment and
the signal; and the Latins, without arms or suspicion, were
slaughtered by the vile and merciless revenge of their slaves.
From Demotica, the first scene of the massacre, the surviving
vassals of the count of St. Pol escaped to Adrianople; but the
French and Venetians, who occupied that city, were slain or
expelled by the furious multitude: the garrisons that could
effect their retreat fell back on each other towards the
metropolis; and the fortresses, that separately stood against the
rebels, were ignorant of each other's and of their sovereign's
fate. The voice of fame and fear announced the revolt of the
Greeks and the rapid approach of their Bulgarian ally; and
Calo-John, not depending on the forces of his own kingdom, had
drawn from the Scythian wilderness a body of fourteen thousand
Comans, who drank, as it was said, the blood of their captives,
and sacrificed the Christians on the altars of their gods.
^25</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: In Calo-John's answer to the pope we may find
his claims and complaints, (Gesta Innocent III. c. 108, 109:) he
was cherished at Rome as the prodigal son.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: The Comans were a Tartar or Turkman horde, which
encamped in the xiith and xiiith centuries on the verge of
Moldavia. The greater part were pagans, but some were Mahometans,
and the whole horde was converted to Christianity (A.D. 1370) by
Lewis, king of Hungary.]</p>

<p>Alarmed by this sudden and growing danger, the emperor
despatched a swift messenger to recall Count Henry and his
troops; and had Baldwin expected the return of his gallant
brother, with a supply of twenty thousand Armenians, he might
have encountered the invader with equal numbers and a decisive
superiority of arms and discipline. But the spirit of chivalry
could seldom discriminate caution from cowardice; and the emperor
took the field with a hundred and forty knights, and their train
of archers and sergeants. The marshal, who dissuaded and obeyed,
led the vanguard in their march to Adrianople; the main body was
commanded by the count of Blois; the aged doge of Venice followed
with the rear; and their scanty numbers were increased from all
sides by the fugitive Latins. They undertook to besiege the
rebels of Adrianople; and such was the pious tendency of the
crusades that they employed the holy week in pillaging the
country for their subsistence, and in framing engines for the
destruction of their fellow-Christians. But the Latins were soon
interrupted and alarmed by the light cavalry of the Comans, who
boldly skirmished to the edge of their imperfect lines: and a
proclamation was issued by the marshal of Romania, that, on the
trumpet's sound, the cavalry should mount and form; but that
none, under pain of death, should abandon themselves to a
desultory and dangerous pursuit. This wise injunction was first
disobeyed by the count of Blois, who involved the emperor in his
rashness and ruin. The Comans, of the Parthian or Tartar school,
fled before their first charge; but after a career of two
leagues, when the knights and their horses were almost
breathless, they suddenly turned, rallied, and encompassed the
heavy squadrons of the Franks. The count was slain on the field;
the emperor was made prisoner; and if the one disdained to fly,
if the other refused to yield, their personal bravery made a poor
atonement for their ignorance, or neglect, of the duties of a
general. ^26</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: Nicetas, from ignorance or malice, imputes the
defeat to the cowardice of Dandolo, (p. 383;) but Villehardouin
shares his own glory with his venerable friend, qui viels home
&eacute;re et gote ne veoit, mais mult &eacute;re sages et preus
et vigueros, (No. 193.) *</p>

<p>Note: * Gibbon appears to me to have misapprehended the
passage of Nicetas. He says, "that principal and subtlest
mischief. that primary cause of all the horrible miseries
suffered by the <strong><em>Romans</em></strong>," i. e. the
Byzantines. It is an effusion of malicious triumph against the
Venetians, to whom he always ascribes the capture of
Constantinople. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French
And Venetians. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>Proud of his victory and his royal prize, the Bulgarian
advanced to relieve Adrianople and achieve the destruction of the
Latins. They must inevitably have been destroyed, if the marshal
of Romania had not displayed a cool courage and consummate skill;
uncommon in all ages, but most uncommon in those times, when war
was a passion, rather than a science. His grief and fears were
poured into the firm and faithful bosom of the doge; but in the
camp he diffused an assurance of safety, which could only be
realized by the general belief. All day he maintained his
perilous station between the city and the Barbarians:
Villehardouin decamped in silence at the dead of night; and his
masterly retreat of three days would have deserved the praise of
Xenophon and the ten thousand. In the rear, the marshal supported
the weight of the pursuit; in the front, he moderated the
impatience of the fugitives; and wherever the Comans approached,
they were repelled by a line of impenetrable spears. On the third
day, the weary troops beheld the sea, the solitary town of
Rodosta, ^27 and their friends, who had landed from the Asiatic
shore. They embraced, they wept; but they united their arms and
counsels; and in his brother's absence, Count Henry assumed the
regency of the empire, at once in a state of childhood and
caducity. ^28 If the Comans withdrew from the summer heats, seven
thousand Latins, in the hour of danger, deserted Constantinople,
their brethren, and their vows. Some partial success was
overbalanced by the loss of one hundred and twenty knights in the
field of Rusium; and of the Imperial domain, no more was left
than the capital, with two or three adjacent fortresses on the
shores of Europe and Asia. The king of Bulgaria was resistless
and inexorable; and Calo-John respectfully eluded the demands of
the pope, who conjured his new proselyte to restore peace and the
emperor to the afflicted Latins. The deliverance of Baldwin was
no longer, he said, in the power of man: that prince had died in
prison; and the manner of his death is variously related by
ignorance and credulity. The lovers of a tragic legend will be
pleased to hear, that the royal captive was tempted by the
amorous queen of the Bulgarians; that his chaste refusal exposed
him to the falsehood of a woman and the jealousy of a savage;
that his hands and feet were severed from his body; that his
bleeding trunk was cast among the carcasses of dogs and horses;
and that he breathed three days, before he was devoured by the
birds of prey. ^29 About twenty years afterwards, in a wood of
the Netherlands, a hermit announced himself as the true Baldwin,
the emperor of Constantinople, and lawful sovereign of Flanders.
He related the wonders of his escape, his adventures, and his
penance, among a people prone to believe and to rebel; and, in
the first transport, Flanders acknowledged her long-lost
sovereign. A short examination before the French court detected
the impostor, who was punished with an ignominious death; but the
Flemings still adhered to the pleasing error; and the countess
Jane is accused by the gravest historians of sacrificing to her
ambition the life of an unfortunate father. ^30</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: The truth of geography, and the original text of
Villehardouin, (No. 194,) place Rodosto three days' journey
(trois jorn&eacute;es) from Adrianople: but Vigenere, in his
version, has most absurdly substituted <strong><em>trois
heures</em></strong>; and this error, which is not corrected by
Ducange has entrapped several moderns, whose names I shall
spare.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: The reign and end of Baldwin are related by
Villehardouin and Nicetas, (p. 386--416;) and their omissions are
supplied by Ducange in his Observations, and to the end of his
first book.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: After brushing away all doubtful and improbable
circumstances, we may prove the death of Baldwin, 1. By the firm
belief of the French barons, (Villehardouin, No. 230.) 2. By the
declaration of Calo-John himself, who excuses his not releasing
the captive emperor, quia debitum carnis exsolverat cum carcere
teneretur, (Gesta Innocent III. c. 109.) *</p>

<p>Note: * Compare Von Raumer. Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, vol.
ii. p. 237. Petitot, in his preface to Villehardouin in the
Collection des M&eacute;moires, relatifs a l'Histoire de France,
tom. i. p. 85, expresses his belief in the first part of the
"tragic legend." -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: See the story of this impostor from the French
and Flemish writers in Ducange, Hist. de C. P. iii. 9; and the
ridiculous fables that were believed by the monks of St. Alban's,
in Matthew Paris, Hist. Major, p. 271, 272.]</p>

<p>In all civilized hostility, a treaty is established for the
exchange or ransom of prisoners; and if their captivity be
prolonged, their condition is known, and they are treated
according to their rank with humanity or honor. But the savage
Bulgarian was a stranger to the laws of war: his prisons were
involved in darkness and silence; and above a year elapsed before
the Latins could be assured of the death of Baldwin, before his
brother, the regent Henry, would consent to assume the title of
emperor. His moderation was applauded by the Greeks as an act of
rare and inimitable virtue. Their light and perfidious ambition
was eager to seize or anticipate the moment of a vacancy, while a
law of succession, the guardian both of the prince and people,
was gradually defined and confirmed in the hereditary monarchies
of Europe. In the support of the Eastern empire, Henry was
gradually left without an associate, as the heroes of the crusade
retired from the world or from the war. The doge of Venice, the
venerable Dandolo, in the fulness of years and glory, sunk into
the grave. The marquis of Montferrat was slowly recalled from the
Peloponnesian war to the revenge of Baldwin and the defence of
Thessalonica. Some nice disputes of feudal homage and service
were reconciled in a personal interview between the emperor and
the king; they were firmly united by mutual esteem and the common
danger; and their alliance was sealed by the nuptials of Henry
with the daughter of the Italian prince. He soon deplored the
loss of his friend and father. At the persuasion of some faithful
Greeks, Boniface made a bold and successful inroad among the
hills of Rhodope: the Bulgarians fled on his approach; they
assembled to harass his retreat. On the intelligence that his
rear was attacked, without waiting for any defensive armor, he
leaped on horseback, couched his lance, and drove the enemies
before him; but in the rash pursuit he was pierced with a mortal
wound; and the head of the king of Thessalonica was presented to
Calo-John, who enjoyed the honors, without the merit, of victory.
It is here, at this melancholy event, that the pen or the voice
of Jeffrey of Villehardouin seems to drop or to expire; ^31 and
if he still exercised his military office of marshal of Romania,
his subsequent exploits are buried in oblivion. ^32 The character
of Henry was not unequal to his arduous situation: in the siege
of Constantinople, and beyond the Hellespont, he had deserved the
fame of a valiant knight and a skilful commander; and his courage
was tempered with a degree of prudence and mildness unknown to
his impetuous brother. In the double war against the Greeks of
Asia and the Bulgarians of Europe, he was ever the foremost on
shipboard or on horseback; and though he cautiously provided for
the success of his arms, the drooping Latins were often roused by
his example to save and to second their fearless emperor. But
such efforts, and some supplies of men and money from France,
were of less avail than the errors, the cruelty, and death, of
their most formidable adversary. When the despair of the Greek
subjects invited Calo-John as their deliverer, they hoped that he
would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon
taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to
execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his
intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and
of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube. Many towns
and villages of Thrace were already evacuated: a heap of ruins
marked the place of Philippopolis, and a similar calamity was
expected at Demotica and Adrianople, by the first authors of the
revolt. They raised a cry of grief and repentance to the throne
of Henry; the emperor alone had the magnanimity to forgive and
trust them. No more than four hundred knights, with their
sergeants and archers, could be assembled under his banner; and
with this slender force he fought ^* and repulsed the Bulgarian,
who, besides his infantry, was at the head of forty thousand
horse. In this expedition, Henry felt the difference between a
hostile and a friendly country: the remaining cities were
preserved by his arms; and the savage, with shame and loss, was
compelled to relinquish his prey. The siege of Thessalonica was
the last of the evils which Calo-John inflicted or suffered: he
was stabbed in the night in his tent; and the general, perhaps
the assassin, who found him weltering in his blood, ascribed the
blow, with general applause, to the lance of St. Demetrius. ^33
After several victories, the prudence of Henry concluded an
honorable peace with the successor of the tyrant, and with the
Greek princes of Nice and Epirus. If he ceded some doubtful
limits, an ample kingdom was reserved for himself and his
feudatories; and his reign, which lasted only ten years, afforded
a short interval of prosperity and peace. Far above the narrow
policy of Baldwin and Boniface, he freely intrusted to the Greeks
the most important offices of the state and army; and this
liberality of sentiment and practice was the more seasonable, as
the princes of Nice and Epirus had already learned to seduce and
employ the mercenary valor of the Latins. It was the aim of Henry
to unite and reward his deserving subjects, of every nation and
language; but he appeared less solicitous to accomplish the
impracticable union of the two churches. Pelagius, the pope's
legate, who acted as the sovereign of Constantinople, had
interdicted the worship of the Greeks, and sternly imposed the
payment of tithes, the double procession of the Holy Ghost, and a
blind obedience to the Roman pontiff. As the weaker party, they
pleaded the duties of conscience, and implored the rights of
toleration: "Our bodies," they said, "are C&aelig;sar's, but our
souls belong only to God. The persecution was checked by the
firmness of the emperor: ^34 and if we can believe that the same
prince was poisoned by the Greeks themselves, we must entertain a
contemptible idea of the sense and gratitude of mankind. His
valor was a vulgar attribute, which he shared with ten thousand
knights; but Henry possessed the superior courage to oppose, in a
superstitious age, the pride and avarice of the clergy. In the
cathedral of St. Sophia he presumed to place his throne on the
right hand of the patriarch; and this presumption excited the
sharpest censure of Pope Innocent the Third. By a salutary edict,
one of the first examples of the laws of mortmain, he prohibited
the alienation of fiefs: many of the Latins, desirous of
returning to Europe, resigned their estates to the church for a
spiritual or temporal reward; these holy lands were immediately
discharged from military service, and a colony of soldiers would
have been gradually transformed into a college of priests.
^35</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: Villehardouin, No. 257. I quote, with regret,
this lamentable conclusion, where we lose at once the original
history, and the rich illustrations of Ducange. The last pages
may derive some light from Henry's two epistles to Innocent III.,
(Gesta, c. 106, 107.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: The marshal was alive in 1212, but he probably
died soon afterwards, without returning to France, (Ducange,
Observations sur Villehardouin, p. 238.) His fief of Messinople,
the gift of Boniface, was the ancient Maximianopolis, which
flourished in the time of Ammianus Marcellinus, among the cities
of Thrace, (No. 141.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: There was no battle. On the advance of the
Latins, John suddenly broke up his camp and retreated. The Latins
considered this unexpected deliverance almost a miracle. Le Beau
suggests the probability that the detection of the Comans, who
usually quitted the camp during the heats of summer, may have
caused the flight of the Bulgarians. Nicetas, c. 8 Villebardouin,
c. 225. Le Beau, vol. xvii. p. 242. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: The church of this patron of Thessalonica was
served by the canons of the holy sepulchre, and contained a
divine ointment which distilled daily and stupendous miracles,
(Ducange, Hist. de C. P. ii. 4.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: Acropolita (c. 17) observes the persecution of
the legate, and the toleration of Henry, ('Erh, * as he calls
him) kludwna katestorese.</p>

<p>Note: * Or rather 'ErrhV. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: See the reign of Henry, in Ducange, (Hist. de C.
P. l. i. c. 35--41, l. ii. c. 1--22,) who is much indebted to the
Epistles of the Popes. Le Beau (Hist. du Bas Empire, tom. xxi. p.
120--122) has found, perhaps in Doutreman, some laws of Henry,
which determined the service of fiefs, and the prerogatives of
the emperor.]</p>

<p>The virtuous Henry died at Thessalonica, in the defence of
that kingdom, and of an infant, the son of his friend Boniface.
In the two first emperors of Constantinople the male line of the
counts of Flanders was extinct. But their sister Yolande was the
wife of a French prince, the mother of a numerous progeny; and
one of her daughters had married Andrew king of Hungary, a brave
and pious champion of the cross. By seating him on the Byzantine
throne, the barons of Romania would have acquired the forces of a
neighboring and warlike kingdom; but the prudent Andrew revered
the laws of succession; and the princess Yolande, with her
husband Peter of Courtenay, count of Auxerre, was invited by the
Latins to assume the empire of the East. The royal birth of his
father, the noble origin of his mother, recommended to the barons
of France the first cousin of their king. His reputation was
fair, his possessions were ample, and in the bloody crusade
against the Albigeois, the soldiers and the priests had been
abundantly satisfied of his zeal and valor. Vanity might applaud
the elevation of a French emperor of Constantinople; but prudence
must pity, rather than envy, his treacherous and imaginary
greatness. To assert and adorn his title, he was reduced to sell
or mortgage the best of his patrimony. By these expedients, the
liberality of his royal kinsman Philip Augustus, and the national
spirit of chivalry, he was enabled to pass the Alps at the head
of one hundred and forty knights, and five thousand five hundred
sergeants and archers. After some hesitation, Pope Honorius the
Third was persuaded to crown the successor of Constantine: but he
performed the ceremony in a church without the walls, lest he
should seem to imply or to bestow any right of sovereignty over
the ancient capital of the empire. The Venetians had engaged to
transport Peter and his forces beyond the Adriatic, and the
empress, with her four children, to the Byzantine palace; but
they required, as the price of their service, that he should
recover Durazzo from the despot of Epirus. Michael Angelus, or
Comnenus, the first of his dynasty, had bequeathed the succession
of his power and ambition to Theodore, his legitimate brother,
who already threatened and invaded the establishments of the
Latins. After discharging his debt by a fruitless assault, the
emperor raised the siege to prosecute a long and perilous journey
over land from Durazzo to Thessalonica. He was soon lost in the
mountains of Epirus: the passes were fortified; his provisions
exhausted; he was delayed and deceived by a treacherous
negotiation; and, after Peter of Courtenay and the Roman legate
had been arrested in a banquet, the French troops, without
leaders or hopes, were eager to exchange their arms for the
delusive promise of mercy and bread. The Vatican thundered; and
the impious Theodore was threatened with the vengeance of earth
and heaven; but the captive emperor and his soldiers were
forgotten, and the reproaches of the pope are confined to the
imprisonment of his legate. No sooner was he satisfied by the
deliverance of the priests and a promise of spiritual obedience,
than he pardoned and protected the despot of Epirus. His
peremptory commands suspended the ardor of the Venetians and the
king of Hungary; and it was only by a natural or untimely death
^36 that Peter of Courtenay was released from his hopeless
captivity. ^37</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: Acropolita (c. 14) affirms, that Peter of
Courtenay died by the sword, (ergon macairaV genesqai;) but from
his dark expressions, I should conclude a previous captivity, wV
pantaV ardhn desmwtaV poihsai sun pasi skeuesi. * The Chronicle
of Auxerre delays the emperor's death till the year 1219; and
Auxerre is in the neighborhood of Courtenay.</p>

<p>Note: * Whatever may have been the fact, this can hardly be
made out from the expressions of Acropolita. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: See the reign and death of Peter of Courtenay,
in Ducange, (Hist. de C. P. l. ii. c. 22--28,) who feebly strives
to excuse the neglect of the emperor by Honorius III.]</p>

<p>The long ignorance of his fate, and the presence of the lawful
sovereign, of Yolande, his wife or widow, delayed the
proclamation of a new emperor. Before her death, and in the midst
of her grief, she was delivered of a son, who was named Baldwin,
the last and most unfortunate of the Latin princes of
Constantinople. His birth endeared him to the barons of Romania;
but his childhood would have prolonged the troubles of a
minority, and his claims were superseded by the elder claims of
his brethren. The first of these, Philip of Courtenay, who
derived from his mother the inheritance of Namur, had the wisdom
to prefer the substance of a marquisate to the shadow of an
empire; and on his refusal, Robert, the second of the sons of
Peter and Yolande, was called to the throne of Constantinople.
Warned by his father's mischance, he pursued his slow and secure
journey through Germany and along the Danube: a passage was
opened by his sister's marriage with the king of Hungary; and the
emperor Robert was crowned by the patriarch in the cathedral of
St. Sophia. But his reign was an &aelig;ra of calamity and
disgrace; and the colony, as it was styled, of New France yielded
on all sides to the Greeks of Nice and Epirus. After a victory,
which he owed to his perfidy rather than his courage, Theodore
Angelus entered the kingdom of Thessalonica, expelled the feeble
Demetrius, the son of the marquis Boniface, erected his standard
on the walls of Adrianople; and added, by his vanity, a third or
a fourth name to the list of rival emperors. The relics of the
Asiatic province were swept away by John Vataces, the son-in-law
and successor of Theodore Lascaris, and who, in a triumphant
reign of thirty-three years, displayed the virtues both of peace
and war. Under his discipline, the swords of the French
mercenaries were the most effectual instruments of his conquests,
and their desertion from the service of their country was at once
a symptom and a cause of the rising ascendant of the Greeks. By
the construction of a fleet, he obtained the command of the
Hellespont, reduced the islands of Lesbos and Rhodes, attacked
the Venetians of Candia, and intercepted the rare and
parsimonious succors of the West. Once, and once only, the Latin
emperor sent an army against Vataces; and in the defeat of that
army, the veteran knights, the last of the original conquerors,
were left on the field of battle. But the success of a foreign
enemy was less painful to the pusillanimous Robert than the
insolence of his Latin subjects, who confounded the weakness of
the emperor and of the empire. His personal misfortunes will
prove the anarchy of the government and the ferociousness of the
times. The amorous youth had neglected his Greek bride, the
daughter of Vataces, to introduce into the palace a beautiful
maid, of a private, though noble family of Artois; and her mother
had been tempted by the lustre of the purple to forfeit her
engagements with a gentleman of Burgundy. His love was converted
into rage; he assembled his friends, forced the palace gates,
threw the mother into the sea, and inhumanly cut off the nose and
lips of the wife or concubine of the emperor. Instead of
punishing the offender, the barons avowed and applauded the
savage deed, ^38 which, as a prince and as a man, it was
impossible that Robert should forgive. He escaped from the guilty
city to implore the justice or compassion of the pope: the
emperor was coolly exhorted to return to his station; before he
could obey, he sunk under the weight of grief, shame, and
impotent resentment. ^39</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: Marinus Sanutus (Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l. ii.
p. 4, c. 18, p. 73) is so much delighted with this bloody deed,
that he has transcribed it in his margin as a bonum exemplum. Yet
he acknowledges the damsel for the lawful wife of Robert.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: See the reign of Robert, in Ducange, (Hist. de
C. P. l. ii. c.--12.)]</p>

<p>It was only in the age of chivalry, that valor could ascend
from a private station to the thrones of Jerusalem and
Constantinople. The titular kingdom of Jerusalem had devolved to
Mary, the daughter of Isabella and Conrad of Montferrat, and the
granddaughter of Almeric or Amaury. She was given to John of
Brienne, of a noble family in Champagne, by the public voice, and
the judgment of Philip Augustus, who named him as the most worthy
champion of the Holy Land. ^40 In the fifth crusade, he led a
hundred thousand Latins to the conquest of Egypt: by him the
siege of Damietta was achieved; and the subsequent failure was
justly ascribed to the pride and avarice of the legate. After the
marriage of his daughter with Frederic the Second, ^41 he was
provoked by the emperor's ingratitude to accept the command of
the army of the church; and though advanced in life, and
despoiled of royalty, the sword and spirit of John of Brienne
were still ready for the service of Christendom. In the seven
years of his brother's reign, Baldwin of Courtenay had not
emerged from a state of childhood, and the barons of Romania felt
the strong necessity of placing the sceptre in the hands of a man
and a hero. The veteran king of Jerusalem might have disdained
the name and office of regent; they agreed to invest him for his
life with the title and prerogatives of emperor, on the sole
condition that Baldwin should marry his second daughter, and
succeed at a mature age to the throne of Constantinople. The
expectation, both of the Greeks and Latins, was kindled by the
renown, the choice, and the presence of John of Brienne; and they
admired his martial aspect, his green and vigorous age of more
than fourscore years, and his size and stature, which surpassed
the common measure of mankind. ^42 But avarice, and the love of
ease, appear to have chilled the ardor of enterprise: ^* his
troops were disbanded, and two years rolled away without action
or honor, till he was awakened by the dangerous alliance of
Vataces emperor of Nice, and of Azan king of Bulgaria. They
besieged Constantinople by sea and land, with an army of one
hundred thousand men, and a fleet of three hundred ships of war;
while the entire force of the Latin emperor was reduced to one
hundred and sixty knights, and a small addition of sergeants and
archers. I tremble to relate, that instead of defending the city,
the hero made a sally at the head of his cavalry; and that of
forty-eight squadrons of the enemy, no more than three escaped
from the edge of his invincible sword. Fired by his example, the
infantry and the citizens boarded the vessels that anchored close
to the walls; and twenty-five were dragged in triumph into the
harbor of Constantinople. At the summons of the emperor, the
vassals and allies armed in her defence; broke through every
obstacle that opposed their passage; and, in the succeeding year,
obtained a second victory over the same enemies. By the rude
poets of the age, John of Brienne is compared to Hector, Roland,
and Judas Machab&aelig;us: ^43 but their credit, and his glory,
receive some abatement from the silence of the Greeks. The empire
was soon deprived of the last of her champions; and the dying
monarch was ambitious to enter paradise in the habit of a
Franciscan friar. ^44</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: Rex igitur Franci&aelig;, deliberatione
habit&acirc;, respondit nuntiis, se daturum hominem Syri&aelig;
partibus aptum; in armis probum (<strong><em>preux</em></strong>)
in bellis securum, in agendis providum, Johannem comitem
Brennensem. Sanut. Secret. Fidelium, l. iii. p. xi. c. 4, p. 205
Matthew Paris, p. 159.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Giannone (Istoria Civile, tom. ii. l. xvi. p.
380--385) discusses the marriage of Frederic II. with the
daughter of John of Brienne, and the double union of the crowns
of Naples and Jerusalem.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: Acropolita, c. 27. The historian was at that
time a boy, and educated at Constantinople. In 1233, when he was
eleven years old, his father broke the Latin chain, left a
splendid fortune, and escaped to the Greek court of Nice, where
his son was raised to the highest honors.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: John de Brienne, elected emperor 1229, wasted two
years in preparations, and did not arrive at Constantinople till
1231. Two years more glided away in inglorious inaction; he then
made some ineffective warlike expeditions. Constantinople was not
besieged till 1234.--M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: Philip Mouskes, bishop of Tournay, (A.D.
1274--1282,) has composed a poem, or rather string of verses, in
bad old Flemish French, on the Latin emperors of Constantinople,
which Ducange has published at the end of Villehardouin; see p.
38, for the prowess of John of Brienne.</p>

<p>N'Aie, Ector, Roll' ne Ogiers</p>

<p>Ne Judas Machabeus li fiers</p>

<p>Tant ne fit d'armes en estors</p>

<p>Com fist li Rois Jehans cel jors</p>

<p>Et il defors et il dedans</p>

<p>La paru sa force et ses sens</p>

<p>Et li hardiment qu'il avoit.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: See the reign of John de Brienne, in Ducange,
Hist. de C. P. l. ii. c. 13--26.]</p>

<p>In the double victory of John of Brienne, I cannot discover
the name or exploits of his pupil Baldwin, who had attained the
age of military service, and who succeeded to the imperial
dignity on the decease of his adoptive father. ^45 The royal
youth was employed on a commission more suitable to his temper;
he was sent to visit the Western courts, of the pope more
especially, and of the king of France; to excite their pity by
the view of his innocence and distress; and to obtain some
supplies of men or money for the relief of the sinking empire. He
thrice repeated these mendicant visits, in which he seemed to
prolong his stay and postpone his return; of the five-and-twenty
years of his reign, a greater number were spent abroad than at
home; and in no place did the emperor deem himself less free and
secure than in his native country and his capital. On some public
occasions, his vanity might be soothed by the title of Augustus,
and by the honors of the purple; and at the general council of
Lyons, when Frederic the Second was excommunicated and deposed,
his Oriental colleague was enthroned on the right hand of the
pope. But how often was the exile, the vagrant, the Imperial
beggar, humbled with scorn, insulted with pity, and degraded in
his own eyes and those of the nations! In his first visit to
England, he was stopped at Dover by a severe reprimand, that he
should presume, without leave, to enter an independent kingdom.
After some delay, Baldwin, however, was permitted to pursue his
journey, was entertained with cold civility, and thankfully
departed with a present of seven hundred marks. ^46 From the
avarice of Rome he could only obtain the proclamation of a
crusade, and a treasure of indulgences; a coin whose currency was
depreciated by too frequent and indiscriminate abuse. His birth
and misfortunes recommended him to the generosity of his cousin
Louis the Ninth; but the martial zeal of the saint was diverted
from Constantinople to Egypt and Palestine; and the public and
private poverty of Baldwin was alleviated, for a moment, by the
alienation of the marquisate of Namur and the lordship of
Courtenay, the last remains of his inheritance. ^47 By such
shameful or ruinous expedients, he once more returned to Romania,
with an army of thirty thousand soldiers, whose numbers were
doubled in the apprehension of the Greeks. His first despatches
to France and England announced his victories and his hopes: he
had reduced the country round the capital to the distance of
three days' journey; and if he succeeded against an important,
though nameless, city, (most probably Chiorli,) the frontier
would be safe and the passage accessible. But these expectations
(if Baldwin was sincere) quickly vanished like a dream: the
troops and treasures of France melted away in his unskilful
hands; and the throne of the Latin emperor was protected by a
dishonorable alliance with the Turks and Comans. To secure the
former, he consented to bestow his niece on the unbelieving
sultan of Cogni; to please the latter, he complied with their
Pagan rites; a dog was sacrificed between the two armies; and the
contracting parties tasted each other's blood, as a pledge of
their fidelity. ^48 In the palace, or prison, of Constantinople,
the successor of Augustus demolished the vacant houses for winter
fuel, and stripped the lead from the churches for the daily
expense of his family. Some usurious loans were dealt with a
scanty hand by the merchants of Italy; and Philip, his son and
heir, was pawned at Venice as the security for a debt. ^49
Thirst, hunger, and nakedness, are positive evils: but wealth is
relative; and a prince who would be rich in a private station,
may be exposed by the increase of his wants to all the anxiety
and bitterness of poverty.</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: See the reign of Baldwin II. till his expulsion
from Constantinople, in Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. iv. c. 1--34,
the end l. v. c. 1--33.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Matthew Paris relates the two visits of Baldwin
II. to the English court, p. 396, 637; his return to Greece
armat&acirc; man&ucirc;, p. 407 his letters of his nomen
formidabile, &amp;c., p. 481, (a passage which has escaped
Ducange;) his expulsion, p. 850.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: Louis IX. disapproved and stopped the alienation
of Courtenay (Ducange, l. iv. c. 23.) It is now annexed to the
royal demesne but granted for a term
(<strong><em>engag&eacute;</em></strong>) to the family of
Boulainvilliers. Courtenay, in the election of Nemours in the
Isle de France, is a town of 900 inhabitants, with the remains of
a castle, (M&eacute;langes tir&eacute;s d'une Grande
Biblioth&egrave;que, tom. xlv. p. 74--77.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: Joinville, p. 104, edit. du Louvre. A Coman
prince, who died without baptism, was buried at the gates of
Constantinople with a live retinue of slaves and horses.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Sanut. Secret. Fidel. Crucis, l. ii. p. iv. c.
18, p. 73.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French
And Venetians. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>But in this abject distress, the emperor and empire were still
possessed of an ideal treasure, which drew its fantastic value
from the superstition of the Christian world. The merit of the
true cross was somewhat impaired by its frequent division; and a
long captivity among the infidels might shed some suspicion on
the fragments that were produced in the East and West. But
another relic of the Passion was preserved in the Imperial chapel
of Constantinople; and the crown of thorns which had been placed
on the head of Christ was equally precious and authentic. It had
formerly been the practice of the Egyptian debtors to deposit, as
a security, the mummies of their parents; and both their honor
and religion were bound for the redemption of the pledge. In the
same manner, and in the absence of the emperor, the barons of
Romania borrowed the sum of thirteen thousand one hundred and
thirty-four pieces of gold ^50 on the credit of the holy crown:
they failed in the performance of their contract; and a rich
Venetian, Nicholas Querini, undertook to satisfy their impatient
creditors, on condition that the relic should be lodged at
Venice, to become his absolute property, if it were not redeemed
within a short and definite term. The barons apprised their
sovereign of the hard treaty and impending loss and as the empire
could not afford a ransom of seven thousand pounds sterling,
Baldwin was anxious to snatch the prize from the Venetians, and
to vest it with more honor and emolument in the hands of the most
Christian king. ^51 Yet the negotiation was attended with some
delicacy. In the purchase of relics, the saint would have started
at the guilt of simony; but if the mode of expression were
changed, he might lawfully repay the debt, accept the gift, and
acknowledge the obligation. His ambassadors, two Dominicans, were
despatched to Venice to redeem and receive the holy crown which
had escaped the dangers of the sea and the galleys of Vataces. On
opening a wooden box, they recognized the seals of the doge and
barons, which were applied on a shrine of silver; and within this
shrine the monument of the Passion was enclosed in a golden vase.
The reluctant Venetians yielded to justice and power: the emperor
Frederic granted a free and honorable passage; the court of
France advanced as far as Troyes in Champagne, to meet with
devotion this inestimable relic: it was borne in triumph through
Paris by the king himself, barefoot, and in his shirt; and a free
gift of ten thousand marks of silver reconciled Baldwin to his
loss. The success of this transaction tempted the Latin emperor
to offer with the same generosity the remaining furniture of his
chapel; ^52 a large and authentic portion of the true cross; the
baby-linen of the Son of God, the lance, the sponge, and the
chain, of his Passion; the rod of Moses, and part of the skull of
St. John the Baptist. For the reception of these spiritual
treasures, twenty thousand marks were expended by St. Louis on a
stately foundation, the holy chapel of Paris, on which the muse
of Boileau has bestowed a comic immortality. The truth of such
remote and ancient relics, which cannot be proved by any human
testimony, must be admitted by those who believe in the miracles
which they have performed. About the middle of the last age, an
inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the
holy crown: ^53 the prodigy is attested by the most pious and
enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily
disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote
against religious credulity. ^54</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: Under the words
<strong><em>Perparus</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Perpera</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Hyperperum</em></strong>, Ducange is short and vague:
Monet&aelig; genus. From a corrupt passage of Guntherus, (Hist.
C. P. c. 8, p. 10,) I guess that the Perpera was the nummus
aureus, the fourth part of a mark of silver, or about ten
shillings sterling in value. In lead it would be too
contemptible.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: For the translation of the holy crown, &amp;c.,
from Constantinople to Paris, see Ducange (Hist. de C. P. l. iv.
c. 11--14, 24, 35) and Fleury, (Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xvii.
p. 201--204.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: M&eacute;langes tir&eacute;s d'une Grande
Biblioth&egrave;que, tom. xliii. p. 201--205. The Lutrin of
Boileau exhibits the inside, the soul and manners of the
<strong><em>Sainte Chapelle</em></strong>; and many facts
relative to the institution are collected and explained by his
commentators, Brosset and De St. Marc.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: It was performed A.D. 1656, March 24, on the
niece of Pascal; and that superior genius, with Arnauld, Nicole,
&amp;c., were on the spot, to believe and attest a miracle which
confounded the Jesuits, and saved Port Royal, (uvres de Racine,
tom. vi. p. 176--187, in his eloquent History of Port
Royal.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: Voltaire (Si&eacute;cle de Louis XIV. c. 37,
uvres, tom. ix. p. 178, 179) strives to invalidate the fact: but
Hume, (Essays, vol. ii. p. 483, 484,) with more skill and
success, seizes the battery, and turns the cannon against his
enemies.]</p>

<p>The Latins of Constantinople ^55 were on all sides encompassed
and pressed; their sole hope, the last delay of their ruin, was
in the division of their Greek and Bulgarian enemies; and of this
hope they were deprived by the superior arms and policy of
Vataces, emperor of Nice. From the Propontis to the rocky coast
of Pamphylia, Asia was peaceful and prosperous under his reign;
and the events of every campaign extended his influence in
Europe. The strong cities of the hills of Macedonia and Thrace
were rescued from the Bulgarians; and their kingdom was
circumscribed by its present and proper limits, along the
southern banks of the Danube. The sole emperor of the Romans
could no longer brook that a lord of Epirus, a Comnenian prince
of the West, should presume to dispute or share the honors of the
purple; and the humble Demetrius changed the color of his
buskins, and accepted with gratitude the appellation of despot.
His own subjects were exasperated by his baseness and incapacity;
they implored the protection of their supreme lord. After some
resistance, the kingdom of Thessalonica was united to the empire
of Nice; and Vataces reigned without a competitor from the
Turkish borders to the Adriatic Gulf. The princes of Europe
revered his merit and power; and had he subscribed an orthodox
creed, it should seem that the pope would have abandoned without
reluctance the Latin throne of Constantinople. But the death of
Vataces, the short and busy reign of Theodore his son, and the
helpless infancy of his grandson John, suspended the restoration
of the Greeks. In the next chapter, I shall explain their
domestic revolutions; in this place, it will be sufficient to
observe, that the young prince was oppressed by the ambition of
his guardian and colleague, Michael Pal&aelig;ologus, who
displayed the virtues and vices that belong to the founder of a
new dynasty. The emperor Baldwin had flattered himself, that he
might recover some provinces or cities by an impotent
negotiation. His ambassadors were dismissed from Nice with
mockery and contempt. At every place which they named,
Pal&aelig;ologus alleged some special reason, which rendered it
dear and valuable in his eyes: in the one he was born; in another
he had been first promoted to military command; and in a third he
had enjoyed, and hoped long to enjoy, the pleasures of the chase.
"And what then do you propose to give us?" said the astonished
deputies. "Nothing," replied the Greek, "not a foot of land. If
your master be desirous of peace, let him pay me, as an annual
tribute, the sum which he receives from the trade and customs of
Constantinople. On these terms, I may allow him to reign. If he
refuses, it is war. I am not ignorant of the art of war, and I
trust the event to God and my sword." ^56 An expedition against
the despot of Epirus was the first prelude of his arms. If a
victory was followed by a defeat; if the race of the Comneni or
Angeli survived in those mountains his efforts and his reign; the
captivity of Villehardouin, prince of Achaia, deprived the Latins
of the most active and powerful vassal of their expiring
monarchy. The republics of Venice and Genoa disputed, in the
first of their naval wars, the command of the sea and the
commerce of the East. Pride and interest attached the Venetians
to the defence of Constantinople; their rivals were tempted to
promote the designs of her enemies, and the alliance of the
Genoese with the schismatic conqueror provoked the indignation of
the Latin church. ^57</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: The gradual losses of the Latins may be traced
in the third fourth, and fifth books of the compilation of
Ducange: but of the Greek conquests he has dropped many
circumstances, which may be recovered from the larger history of
George Acropolita, and the three first books of Nicephorus,
Gregoras, two writers of the Byzantine series, who have had the
good fortune to meet with learned editors Leo Allatius at Rome,
and John Boivin in the Academy of Inscriptions of Paris.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: George Acropolita, c. 78, p. 89, 90. edit.
Paris.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: The Greeks, ashamed of any foreign aid, disguise
the alliance and succor of the Genoese: but the fact is proved by
the testimony of J Villani (Chron. l. vi. c. 71, in Muratori,
Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. xiii. p. 202, 203) and William de
Nangis, (Annales de St. Louis, p. 248 in the Louvre Joinville,)
two impartial foreigners; and Urban IV threatened to deprive
Genoa of her archbishop.]</p>

<p>Intent on his great object, the emperor Michael visited in
person and strengthened the troops and fortifications of Thrace.
The remains of the Latins were driven from their last
possessions: he assaulted without success the suburb of Galata;
and corresponded with a perfidious baron, who proved unwilling,
or unable, to open the gates of the metropolis. The next spring,
his favorite general, Alexius Strategopulus, whom he had
decorated with the title of C&aelig;sar, passed the Hellespont
with eight hundred horse and some infantry, ^58 on a secret
expedition. His instructions enjoined him to approach, to listen,
to watch, but not to risk any doubtful or dangerous enterprise
against the city. The adjacent territory between the Propontis
and the Black Sea was cultivated by a hardy race of peasants and
outlaws, exercised in arms, uncertain in their allegiance, but
inclined by language, religion, and present advantage, to the
party of the Greeks. They were styled the
<strong><em>volunteers</em></strong>; ^59 and by their free
service the army of Alexius, with the regulars of Thrace and the
Coman auxiliaries, ^60 was augmented to the number of
five-and-twenty thousand men. By the ardor of the volunteers, and
by his own ambition, the C&aelig;sar was stimulated to disobey
the precise orders of his master, in the just confidence that
success would plead his pardon and reward. The weakness of
Constantinople, and the distress and terror of the Latins, were
familiar to the observation of the volunteers; and they
represented the present moment as the most propitious to surprise
and conquest. A rash youth, the new governor of the Venetian
colony, had sailed away with thirty galleys, and the best of the
French knights, on a wild expedition to Daphnusia, a town on the
Black Sea, at the distance of forty leagues; ^* and the remaining
Latins were without strength or suspicion. They were informed
that Alexius had passed the Hellespont; but their apprehensions
were lulled by the smallness of his original numbers; and their
imprudence had not watched the subsequent increase of his army.
If he left his main body to second and support his operations, he
might advance unperceived in the night with a chosen detachment.
While some applied scaling-ladders to the lowest part of the
walls, they were secure of an old Greek, who would introduce
their companions through a subterraneous passage into his house;
they could soon on the inside break an entrance through the
golden gate, which had been long obstructed; and the conqueror
would be in the heart of the city before the Latins were
conscious of their danger. After some debate, the C&aelig;sar
resigned himself to the faith of the volunteers; they were
trusty, bold, and successful; and in describing the plan, I have
already related the execution and success. ^61 But no sooner had
Alexius passed the threshold of the golden gate, than he trembled
at his own rashness; he paused, he deliberated; till the
desperate volunteers urged him forwards, by the assurance that in
retreat lay the greatest and most inevitable danger. Whilst the
C&aelig;sar kept his regulars in firm array, the Comans dispersed
themselves on all sides; an alarm was sounded, and the threats of
fire and pillage compelled the citizens to a decisive resolution.
The Greeks of Constantinople remembered their native sovereigns;
the Genoese merchants their recent alliance and Venetian foes;
every quarter was in arms; and the air resounded with a general
acclamation of "Long life and victory to Michael and John, the
august emperors of the Romans!" Their rival, Baldwin, was
awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not
prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he
deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from
the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails
of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on
Daphnusia. Constantinople was irrecoverably lost; but the Latin
emperor and the principal families embarked on board the Venetian
galleys, and steered for the Isle of Euba, and afterwards for
Italy, where the royal fugitive was entertained by the pope and
Sicilian king with a mixture of contempt and pity. From the loss
of Constantinople to his death, he consumed thirteen years,
soliciting the Catholic powers to join in his restoration: the
lesson had been familiar to his youth; nor was his last exile
more indigent or shameful than his three former pilgrimages to
the courts of Europe. His son Philip was the heir of an ideal
empire; and the pretensions of his daughter Catherine were
transported by her marriage to Charles of Valois, the brother of
Philip the Fair, king of France. The house of Courtenay was
represented in the female line by successive alliances, till the
title of emperor of Constantinople, too bulky and sonorous for a
private name, modestly expired in silence and oblivion. ^62</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Some precautions must be used in reconciling the
discordant numbers; the 800 soldiers of Nicetas, the 25,000 of
Spandugino, (apud Ducange, l. v. c. 24;) the Greeks and Scythians
of Acropolita; and the numerous army of Michael, in the Epistles
of Pope Urban IV. (i. 129.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Qelhmatarioi. They are described and named by
Pachymer, (l. ii. c. 14.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: It is needless to seek these Comans in the
deserts of Tartary, or even of Moldavia. A part of the horde had
submitted to John Vataces, and was probably settled as a nursery
of soldiers on some waste lands of Thrace, (Cantacuzen. l. i. c.
2.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to several authorities, particularly
Abulfaradj. Chron. Arab. p. 336, this was a stratagem on the part
of the Greeks to weaken the garrison of Constantinople. The Greek
commander offered to surrender the town on the appearance of the
Venetians. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: The loss of Constantinople is briefly told by
the Latins: the conquest is described with more satisfaction by
the Greeks; by Acropolita, (c. 85,) Pachymer, (l. ii. c. 26, 27,)
Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. iv. c. 1, 2) See Ducange, Hist. de C. P.
l. v. c. 19--27.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: See the three last books (l. v.--viii.) and the
genealogical tables of Ducange. In the year 1382, the titular
emperor of Constantinople was James de Baux, duke of Andria in
the kingdom of Naples, the son of Margaret, daughter of Catherine
de Valois, daughter of Catharine, daughter of Philip, son of
Baldwin II., (Ducange, l. viii. c. 37, 38.) It is uncertain
whether he left any posterity.]</p>

<p>After this narrative of the expeditions of the Latins to
Palestine and Constantinople, I cannot dismiss the subject
without resolving the general consequences on the countries that
were the scene, and on the nations that were the actors, of these
memorable crusades. ^63 As soon as the arms of the Franks were
withdrawn, the impression, though not the memory, was erased in
the Mahometan realms of Egypt and Syria. The faithful disciples
of the prophet were never tempted by a profane desire to study
the laws or language of the idolaters; nor did the simplicity of
their primitive manners receive the slightest alteration from
their intercourse in peace and war with the unknown strangers of
the West. The Greeks, who thought themselves proud, but who were
only vain, showed a disposition somewhat less inflexible. In the
efforts for the recovery of their empire, they emulated the
valor, discipline, and tactics of their antagonists. The modern
literature of the West they might justly despise; but its free
spirit would instruct them in the rights of man; and some
institutions of public and private life were adopted from the
French. The correspondence of Constantinople and Italy diffused
the knowledge of the Latin tongue; and several of the fathers and
classics were at length honored with a Greek version. ^64 But the
national and religious prejudices of the Orientals were inflamed
by persecution, and the reign of the Latins confirmed the
separation of the two churches.</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: Abulfeda, who saw the conclusion of the
crusades, speaks of the kingdoms of the Franks, and those of the
Negroes, as equally unknown, (Prolegom. ad Geograph.) Had he not
disdained the Latin language, how easily might the Syrian prince
have found books and interpreters!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: A short and superficial account of these
versions from Latin into Greek is given by Huet, (de
Interpretatione et de claris Interpretibus (p. 131--135.) Maximus
Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, (A.D. 1327--1353) has
translated C&aelig;sar's Commentaries, the Somnium Scipionis, the
Metamorphoses and Heroides of Ovid, &amp;c., (Fabric. Bib.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 533.)]</p>

<p>If we compare the &aelig;ra of the crusades, the Latins of
Europe with the Greeks and Arabians, their respective degrees of
knowledge, industry, and art, our rude ancestors must be content
with the third rank in the scale of nations. Their successive
improvement and present superiority may be ascribed to a peculiar
energy of character, to an active and imitative spirit, unknown
to their more polished rivals, who at that time were in a
stationary or retrograde state. With such a disposition, the
Latins should have derived the most early and essential benefits
from a series of events which opened to their eyes the prospect
of the world, and introduced them to a long and frequent
intercourse with the more cultivated regions of the East. The
first and most obvious progress was in trade and manufactures, in
the arts which are strongly prompted by the thirst of wealth, the
calls of necessity, and the gratification of the sense or vanity.
Among the crowd of unthinking fanatics, a captive or a pilgrim
might sometimes observe the superior refinements of Cairo and
Constantinople: the first importer of windmills ^65 was the
benefactor of nations; and if such blessings are enjoyed without
any grateful remembrance, history has condescended to notice the
more apparent luxuries of silk and sugar, which were transported
into Italy from Greece and Egypt. But the intellectual wants of
the Latins were more slowly felt and supplied; the ardor of
studious curiosity was awakened in Europe by different causes and
more recent events; and, in the age of the crusades, they viewed
with careless indifference the literature of the Greeks and
Arabians. Some rudiments of mathematical and medicinal knowledge
might be imparted in practice and in figures; necessity might
produce some interpreters for the grosser business of merchants
and soldiers; but the commerce of the Orientals had not diffused
the study and knowledge of their languages in the schools of
Europe. ^66 If a similar principle of religion repulsed the idiom
of the Koran, it should have excited their patience and curiosity
to understand the original text of the gospel; and the same
grammar would have unfolded the sense of Plato and the beauties
of Homer. Yet in a reign of sixty years, the Latins of
Constantinople disdained the speech and learning of their
subjects; and the manuscripts were the only treasures which the
natives might enjoy without rapine or envy. Aristotle was indeed
the oracle of the Western universities, but it was a barbarous
Aristotle; and, instead of ascending to the fountain head, his
Latin votaries humbly accepted a corrupt and remote version, from
the Jews and Moors of Andalusia. The principle of the crusades
was a savage fanaticism; and the most important effects were
analogous to the cause. Each pilgrim was ambitious to return with
his sacred spoils, the relics of Greece and Palestine; ^67 and
each relic was preceded and followed by a train of miracles and
visions. The belief of the Catholics was corrupted by new
legends, their practice by new superstitions; and the
establishment of the inquisition, the mendicant orders of monks
and friars, the last abuse of indulgences, and the final progress
of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war.
The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals of their
reason and religion; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were
the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age
of absurdity and fable.</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: Windmills, first invented in the dry country of
Asia Minor, were used in Normandy as early as the year 1105, (Vie
priv&eacute;e des Fran&ccedil;ois, tom. i. p. 42, 43. Ducange,
Gloss. Latin. tom. iv. p. 474.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: See the complaints of Roger Bacon, (Biographia
Britannica, vol. i. p. 418, Kippis's edition.) If Bacon himself,
or Gerbert, understood <strong><em>some</em></strong>Greek, they
were prodigies, and owed nothing to the commerce of the
East.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: Such was the opinion of the great Leibnitz,
(uvres de Fontenelle, tom. v. p. 458,) a master of the history of
the middle ages. I shall only instance the pedigree of the
Carmelites, and the flight of the house of Loretto, which were
both derived from Palestine.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French
And Venetians. -- Part IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>In the profession of Christianity, in the cultivation of a
fertile land, the northern conquerors of the Roman empire
insensibly mingled with the provincials, and rekindled the embers
of the arts of antiquity. Their settlements about the age of
Charlemagne had acquired some degree of order and stability, when
they were overwhelmed by new swarms of invaders, the Normans,
Saracens, ^68 and Hungarians, who replunged the western countries
of Europe into their former state of anarchy and barbarism. About
the eleventh century, the second tempest had subsided by the
expulsion or conversion of the enemies of Christendom: the tide
of civilization, which had so long ebbed, began to flow with a
steady and accelerated course; and a fairer prospect was opened
to the hopes and efforts of the rising generations. Great was the
increase, and rapid the progress, during the two hundred years of
the crusades; and some philosophers have applauded the propitious
influence of these holy wars, which appear to me to have checked
rather than forwarded the maturity of Europe. ^69 The lives and
labors of millions, which were buried in the East, would have
been more profitably employed in the improvement of their native
country: the accumulated stock of industry and wealth would have
overflowed in navigation and trade; and the Latins would have
been enriched and enlightened by a pure and friendly
correspondence with the climates of the East. In one respect I
can indeed perceive the accidental operation of the crusades, not
so much in producing a benefit as in removing an evil. The larger
portion of the inhabitants of Europe was chained to the soil,
without freedom, or property, or knowledge; and the two orders of
ecclesiastics and nobles, whose numbers were comparatively small,
alone deserved the name of citizens and men. This oppressive
system was supported by the arts of the clergy and the swords of
the barons. The authority of the priests operated in the darker
ages as a salutary antidote: they prevented the total extinction
of letters, mitigated the fierceness of the times, sheltered the
poor and defenceless, and preserved or revived the peace and
order of civil society. But the independence, rapine, and discord
of the feudal lords were unmixed with any semblance of good; and
every hope of industry and improvement was crushed by the iron
weight of the martial aristocracy. Among the causes that
undermined that Gothic edifice, a conspicuous place must be
allowed to the crusades. The estates of the barons were
dissipated, and their race was often extinguished, in these
costly and perilous expeditions. Their poverty extorted from
their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters
of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the
artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the
most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration
which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air
and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants
of the soil. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: If I rank the Saracens with the Barbarians, it
is only relative to their wars, or rather inroads, in Italy and
France, where their sole purpose was to plunder and destroy.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: On this interesting subject, the progress of
society in Europe, a strong ray of philosophical light has broke
from Scotland in our own times; and it is with private, as well
as public regard, that I repeat the names of Hume, Robertson, and
Adam Smith.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: On the consequences of the crusades, compare the
valuable Essay of Heeren, that of M. Choiseul d'Aillecourt, and a
chapter of Mr. Forster's "Mahometanism Unveiled." I may admire
this gentleman's learning and industry, without pledging myself
to his wild theory of prophets interpretation. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Digression On The Family Of
Courtenay.</em></strong></p>

<p align="center">The purple of three emperors, who have reigned
at Constantinople, will authorize or excuse a digression on the
origin and singular fortunes of the house of Courtenay, ^70 in
the three principal branches: I. Of Edessa; II. Of France; and
III. Of England; of which the last only has survived the
revolutions of eight hundred years.</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: I have applied, but not confined, myself to
<strong><em>A genealogical History of the noble and illustrious
Family of Courtenay, by Ezra Cleaveland, Tutor to Sir William
Courtenay, and Rector of Honiton; Exon. 1735, in
folio.</em></strong> The first part is extracted from William of
Tyre; the second from Bouchet's French history; and the third
from various memorials, public, provincial, and private, of the
Courtenays of Devonshire The rector of Honiton has more gratitude
than industry, and more industry than criticism.]</p>

<p>I. Before the introduction of trade, which scatters riches,
and of knowledge, which dispels prejudice, the prerogative of
birth is most strongly felt and most humbly acknowledged. In
every age, the laws and manners of the Germans have discriminated
the ranks of society; the dukes and counts, who shared the empire
of Charlemagne, converted their office to an inheritance; and to
his children, each feudal lord bequeathed his honor and his
sword. The proudest families are content to lose, in the darkness
of the middle ages, the tree of their pedigree, which, however
deep and lofty, must ultimately rise from a plebeian root; and
their historians must descend ten centuries below the Christian
&aelig;ra, before they can ascertain any lineal succession by the
evidence of surnames, of arms, and of authentic records. With the
first rays of light, ^71 we discern the nobility and opulence of
Atho, a French knight; his nobility, in the rank and title of a
nameless father; his opulence, in the foundation of the castle of
Courtenay in the district of Gatinois, about fifty-six miles to
the south of Paris. From the reign of Robert, the son of Hugh
Capet, the barons of Courtenay are conspicuous among the
immediate vassals of the crown; and Joscelin, the grandson of
Atho and a noble dame, is enrolled among the heroes of the first
crusade. A domestic alliance (their mothers were sisters)
attached him to the standard of Baldwin of Bruges, the second
count of Edessa; a princely fief, which he was worthy to receive,
and able to maintain, announces the number of his martial
followers; and after the departure of his cousin, Joscelin
himself was invested with the county of Edessa on both sides of
the Euphrates. By economy in peace, his territories were
replenished with Latin and Syrian subjects; his magazines with
corn, wine, and oil; his castles with gold and silver, with arms
and horses. In a holy warfare of thirty years, he was alternately
a conqueror and a captive: but he died like a soldier, in a horse
litter at the head of his troops; and his last glance beheld the
flight of the Turkish invaders who had presumed on his age and
infirmities. His son and successor, of the same name, was less
deficient in valor than in vigilance; but he sometimes forgot
that dominion is acquired and maintained by the same arms. He
challenged the hostility of the Turks, without securing the
friendship of the prince of Antioch; and, amidst the peaceful
luxury of Turbessel, in Syria, ^72 Joscelin neglected the defence
of the Christian frontier beyond the Euphrates. In his absence,
Zenghi, the first of the Atabeks, besieged and stormed his
capital, Edessa, which was feebly defended by a timorous and
disloyal crowd of Orientals: the Franks were oppressed in a bold
attempt for its recovery, and Courtenay ended his days in the
prison of Aleppo. He still left a fair and ample patrimony But
the victorious Turks oppressed on all sides the weakness of a
widow and orphan; and, for the equivalent of an annual pension,
they resigned to the Greek emperor the charge of defending, and
the shame of losing, the last relics of the Latin conquest. The
countess-dowager of Edessa retired to Jerusalem with her two
children; the daughter, Agnes, became the wife and mother of a
king; the son, Joscelin the Third, accepted the office of
seneschal, the first of the kingdom, and held his new estates in
Palestine by the service of fifty knights. His name appears with
honor in the transactions of peace and war; but he finally
vanishes in the fall of Jerusalem; and the name of Courtenay, in
this branch of Edessa, was lost by the marriage of his two
daughters with a French and German baron. ^73</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: The primitive record of the family is a passage
of the continuator of Aimoin, a monk of Fleury, who wrote in the
xiith century. See his Chronicle, in the Historians of France,
(tom. xi. p. 276.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: Turbessel, or, as it is now styled, Telbesher,
is fixed by D'Anville four-and-twenty miles from the great
passage over the Euphrates at Zeugma.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: His possessions are distinguished in the Assises
of Jerusalem (c. B26) among the feudal tenures of the kingdom,
which must therefore have been collected between the years 1153
and 1187. His pedigree may be found in the Lignages d'Outremer,
c. 16.]</p>

<p>II. While Joscelin reigned beyond the Euphrates, his elder
brother Milo, the son of Joscelin, the son of Atho, continued,
near the Seine, to possess the castle of their fathers, which was
at length inherited by Rainaud, or Reginald, the youngest of his
three sons. Examples of genius or virtue must be rare in the
annals of the oldest families; and, in a remote age their pride
will embrace a deed of rapine and violence; such, however, as
could not be perpetrated without some superiority of courage, or,
at least, of power. A descendant of Reginald of Courtenay may
blush for the public robber, who stripped and imprisoned several
merchants, after they had satisfied the king's duties at Sens and
Orleans. He will glory in the offence, since the bold offender
could not be compelled to obedience and restitution, till the
regent and the count of Champagne prepared to march against him
at the head of an army. ^74 Reginald bestowed his estates on his
eldest daughter, and his daughter on the seventh son of King
Louis the Fat; and their marriage was crowned with a numerous
offspring. We might expect that a private should have merged in a
royal name; and that the descendants of Peter of France and
Elizabeth of Courtenay would have enjoyed the titles and honors
of princes of the blood. But this legitimate claim was long
neglected, and finally denied; and the causes of their disgrace
will represent the story of this second branch.
<strong>1.</strong> Of all the families now extant, the most
ancient, doubtless, and the most illustrious, is the house of
France, which has occupied the same throne above eight hundred
years, and descends, in a clear and lineal series of males, from
the middle of the ninth century. ^75 In the age of the crusades,
it was already revered both in the East and West. But from Hugh
Capet to the marriage of Peter, no more than five reigns or
generations had elapsed; and so precarious was their title, that
the eldest sons, as a necessary precaution, were previously
crowned during the lifetime of their fathers. The peers of France
have long maintained their precedency before the younger branches
of the royal line, nor had the princes of the blood, in the
twelfth century, acquired that hereditary lustre which is now
diffused over the most remote candidates for the succession.
<strong>2.</strong> The barons of Courtenay must have stood high
in their own estimation, and in that of the world, since they
could impose on the son of a king the obligation of adopting for
himself and all his descendants the name and arms of their
daughter and his wife. In the marriage of an heiress with her
inferior or her equal, such exchange often required and allowed:
but as they continued to diverge from the regal stem, the sons of
Louis the Fat were insensibly confounded with their maternal
ancestors; and the new Courtenays might deserve to forfeit the
honors of their birth, which a motive of interest had tempted
them to renounce. <strong>3.</strong> The shame was far more
permanent than the reward, and a momentary blaze was followed by
a long darkness. The eldest son of these nuptials, Peter of
Courtenay, had married, as I have already mentioned, the sister
of the counts of Flanders, the two first emperors of
Constantinople: he rashly accepted the invitation of the barons
of Romania; his two sons, Robert and Baldwin, successively held
and lost the remains of the Latin empire in the East, and the
granddaughter of Baldwin the Second again mingled her blood with
the blood of France and of Valois. To support the expenses of a
troubled and transitory reign, their patrimonial estates were
mortgaged or sold: and the last emperors of Constantinople
depended on the annual charity of Rome and Naples.</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: The rapine and satisfaction of Reginald de
Courtenay, are preposterously arranged in the Epistles of the
abbot and regent Suger, (cxiv. cxvi.,) the best memorials of the
age, (Duchesne, Scriptores Hist. Franc. tom. iv. p. 530.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: In the beginning of the xith century, after
naming the father and grandfather of Hugh Capet, the monk Glaber
is obliged to add, cujus genus valde in-ante reperitur obscurum.
Yet we are assured that the great-grandfather of Hugh Capet was
Robert the Strong count of Anjou, (A.D. 863--873,) a noble Frank
of Neustria, Neustricus . . . generos&aelig; stirpis, who was
slain in the defence of his country against the Normans, dum
patri&aelig; fines tuebatur. Beyond Robert, all is conjecture or
fable. It is a probable conjecture, that the third race descended
from the second by Childebrand, the brother of Charles Martel. It
is an absurd fable that the second was allied to the first by the
marriage of Ansbert, a Roman senator and the ancestor of St.
Arnoul, with Blitilde, a daughter of Clotaire I. The Saxon origin
of the house of France is an ancient but incredible opinion. See
a judicious memoir of M. de Foncemagne, (M&eacute;moires de
l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions, tom. xx. p. 548--579.) He had
promised to declare his own opinion in a second memoir, which has
never appeared.]</p>

<p>While the elder brothers dissipated their wealth in romantic
adventures, and the castle of Courtenay was profaned by a
plebeian owner, the younger branches of that adopted name were
propagated and multiplied. But their splendor was clouded by
poverty and time: after the decease of Robert, great butler of
France, they descended from princes to barons; the next
generations were confounded with the simple gentry; the
descendants of Hugh Capet could no longer be visible in the rural
lords of Tanlay and of Champignelles. The more adventurous
embraced without dishonor the profession of a soldier: the least
active and opulent might sink, like their cousins of the branch
of Dreux, into the condition of peasants. Their royal descent, in
a dark period of four hundred years, became each day more
obsolete and ambiguous; and their pedigree, instead of being
enrolled in the annals of the kingdom, must be painfully searched
by the minute diligence of heralds and genealogists. It was not
till the end of the sixteenth century, on the accession of a
family almost as remote as their own, that the princely spirit of
the Courtenays again revived; and the question of the nobility
provoked them to ascertain the royalty of their blood. They
appealed to the justice and compassion of Henry the Fourth;
obtained a favorable opinion from twenty lawyers of Italy and
Germany, and modestly compared themselves to the descendants of
King David, whose prerogatives were not impaired by the lapse of
ages or the trade of a carpenter. ^76 But every ear was deaf, and
every circumstance was adverse, to their lawful claims. The
Bourbon kings were justified by the neglect of the Valois; the
princes of the blood, more recent and lofty, disdained the
alliance of his humble kindred: the parliament, without denying
their proofs, eluded a dangerous precedent by an arbitrary
distinction, and established St. Louis as the first father of the
royal line. ^77 A repetition of complaints and protests was
repeatedly disregarded; and the hopeless pursuit was terminated
in the present century by the death of the last male of the
family. ^78 Their painful and anxious situation was alleviated by
the pride of conscious virtue: they sternly rejected the
temptations of fortune and favor; and a dying Courtenay would
have sacrificed his son, if the youth could have renounced, for
any temporal interest, the right and title of a legitimate prince
of the blood of France. ^79</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: Of the various petitions, apologies, &amp;c.,
published by the princes of Courtenay, I have seen the three
following, all in octavo: 1. De Stirpe et Origine Domus de
Courtenay: addita sunt Responsa celeberrimorum Europ&aelig;
Jurisconsultorum; Paris, 1607. 2. Representation du
Proced&eacute; ten&ucirc; a l'instance faicte devant le Roi, par
Messieurs de Courtenay, pour la conservation de l'Honneur et
Dignit&eacute; de leur Maison, branche de la royalle Maison de
France; &agrave; Paris, 1613. 3. Representation du subject qui a
port&eacute; Messieurs de Salles et de Fraville, de la Maison de
Courtenay, &agrave; se retirer hors du Royaume, 1614. It was a
homicide, for which the Courtenays expected to be pardoned, or
tried, as princes of the blood.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: The sense of the parliaments is thus expressed
by Thuanus Principis nomen nusquam in Galli&acirc; tributum, nisi
iis qui per mares e regibus nostris originem repetunt; qui nunc
tantum a Ludovico none beat&aelig; memori&aelig; numerantur; nam
<strong><em>Cortini</em></strong> et Drocenses, a Ludovico crasso
genus ducentes, hodie inter eos minime recensentur. A distinction
of expediency rather than justice. The sanctity of Louis IX.
could not invest him with any special prerogative, and all the
descendants of Hugh Capet must be included in his original
compact with the French nation.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: The last male of the Courtenays was Charles
Roger, who died in the year 1730, without leaving any sons. The
last female was Helene de Courtenay, who married Louis de
Beaufremont. Her title of Princesse du Sang Royal de France was
suppressed (February 7th, 1737) by an
<strong><em>arr&ecirc;t</em></strong> of the parliament of
Paris.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: The singular anecdote to which I allude is
related in the Recueil des Pieces interessantes et peu connues,
(Maestricht, 1786, in 4 vols. 12mo.;) and the unknown editor
quotes his author, who had received it from Helene de Courtenay,
marquise de Beaufremont.]</p>

<p>III. According to the old register of Ford Abbey, the
Courtenays of Devonshire are descended from Prince
<strong><em>Florus</em></strong>, the second son of Peter, and
the grandson of Louis the Fat. ^80 This fable of the grateful or
venal monks was too respectfully entertained by our antiquaries,
Cambden ^81 and Dugdale: ^82 but it is so clearly repugnant to
truth and time, that the rational pride of the family now refuses
to accept this imaginary founder. Their most faithful historians
believe, that, after giving his daughter to the king's son,
Reginald of Courtenay abandoned his possessions in France, and
obtained from the English monarch a second wife and a new
inheritance. It is certain, at least, that Henry the Second
distinguished in his camps and councils a Reginald, of the name
and arms, and, as it may be fairly presumed, of the genuine race,
of the Courtenays of France. The right of wardship enabled a
feudal lord to reward his vassal with the marriage and estate of
a noble heiress; and Reginald of Courtenay acquired a fair
establishment in Devonshire, where his posterity has been seated
above six hundred years. ^83 From a Norman baron, Baldwin de
Brioniis, who had been invested by the Conqueror, Hawise, the
wife of Reginald, derived the honor of Okehampton, which was held
by the service of ninety-three knights; and a female might claim
the manly offices of hereditary viscount or sheriff, and of
captain of the royal castle of Exeter. Their son Robert married
the sister of the earl of Devon: at the end of a century, on the
failure of the family of Rivers, ^84 his great-grandson, Hugh the
Second, succeeded to a title which was still considered as a
territorial dignity; and twelve earls of Devonshire, of the name
of Courtenay, have flourished in a period of two hundred and
twenty years. They were ranked among the chief of the barons of
the realm; nor was it till after a strenuous dispute, that they
yielded to the fief of Arundel the first place in the parliament
of England: their alliances were contracted with the noblest
families, the Veres, Despensers, St. Johns, Talbots, Bohuns, and
even the Plantagenets themselves; and in a contest with John of
Lancaster, a Courtenay, bishop of London, and afterwards
archbishop of Canterbury, might be accused of profane confidence
in the strength and number of his kindred. In peace, the earls of
Devon resided in their numerous castles and manors of the west;
their ample revenue was appropriated to devotion and hospitality;
and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed from his misfortune, the
<strong><em>blind</em></strong>, from his virtues, the
<strong><em>good</em></strong>, earl, inculcates with much
ingenuity a moral sentence, which may, however, be abused by
thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the
fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with
Mabe his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: --</p>

<p>"What we gave, we have;</p>

<p>What we spent, we had;</p>

<p>What we left, we lost." ^85</p>

<p>But their <strong><em>losses</em></strong>, in this sense,
were far superior to their gifts and expenses; and their heirs,
not less than the poor, were the objects of their paternal care.
The sums which they paid for livery and seizin attest the
greatness of their possessions; and several estates have remained
in their family since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In
war, the Courtenays of England fulfilled the duties, and deserved
the honors, of chivalry. They were often intrusted to levy and
command the militia of Devonshire and Cornwall; they often
attended their supreme lord to the borders of Scotland; and in
foreign service, for a stipulated price, they sometimes
maintained fourscore men-at-arms and as many archers. By sea and
land they fought under the standard of the Edwards and Henries:
their names are conspicuous in battles, in tournaments, and in
the original list of the Order of the Garter; three brothers
shared the Spanish victory of the Black Prince; and in the lapse
of six generations, the English Courtenays had learned to despise
the nation and country from which they derived their origin. In
the quarrel of the two roses, the earls of Devon adhered to the
house of Lancaster; and three brothers successively died either
in the field or on the scaffold. Their honors and estates were
restored by Henry the Seventh; a daughter of Edward the Fourth
was not disgraced by the nuptials of a Courtenay; their son, who
was created Marquis of Exeter, enjoyed the favor of his cousin
Henry the Eighth; and in the camp of Cloth of Gold, he broke a
lance against the French monarch. But the favor of Henry was the
prelude of disgrace; his disgrace was the signal of death; and of
the victims of the jealous tyrant, the marquis of Exeter is one
of the most noble and guiltless. His son Edward lived a prisoner
in the Tower, and died in exile at Padua; and the secret love of
Queen Mary, whom he slighted, perhaps for the princess Elizabeth,
has shed a romantic color on the story of this beautiful youth.
The relics of his patrimony were conveyed into strange families
by the marriages of his four aunts; and his personal honors, as
if they had been legally extinct, were revived by the patents of
succeeding princes. But there still survived a lineal descendant
of Hugh, the first earl of Devon, a younger branch of the
Courtenays, who have been seated at Powderham Castle above four
hundred years, from the reign of Edward the Third to the present
hour. Their estates have been increased by the grant and
improvement of lands in Ireland, and they have been recently
restored to the honors of the peerage. Yet the Courtenays still
retain the plaintive motto, which asserts the innocence, and
deplores the fall, of their ancient house. ^86 While they sigh
for past greatness, they are doubtless sensible of present
blessings: in the long series of the Courtenay annals, the most
splendid &aelig;ra is likewise the most unfortunate; nor can an
opulent peer of Britain be inclined to envy the emperors of
Constantinople, who wandered over Europe to solicit alms for the
support of their dignity and the defence of their capital.</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. i. p. 786.
Yet this fable must have been invented before the reign of Edward
III. The profuse devotion of the three first generations to Ford
Abbey was followed by oppression on one side and ingratitude on
the other; and in the sixth generation, the monks ceased to
register the births, actions, and deaths of their patrons.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: In his Britannia, in the list of the earls of
Devonshire. His expression, e regio sanguine ortos, credunt,
betrays, however, some doubt or suspicion.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: In his Baronage, P. i. p. 634, he refers to his
own Monasticon. Should he not have corrected the register of Ford
Abbey, and annihilated the phantom Florus, by the unquestionable
evidence of the French historians?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: Besides the third and most valuable book of
Cleaveland's History, I have consulted Dugdale, the father of our
genealogical science, (Baronage, P. i. p. 634--643.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: This great family, de Ripuariis, de Redvers, de
Rivers, ended, in Edward the Fifth's time, in Isabella de
Fortibus, a famous and potent dowager, who long survived her
brother and husband, (Dugdale, Baronage, P i. p. 254--257.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: Cleaveland p. 142. By some it is assigned to a
Rivers earl of Devon; but the English denotes the xvth, rather
than the xiiith century.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: <strong><em>Ubi lapsus! Quid feci?</em></strong>
a motto which was probably adopted by the Powderham branch, after
the loss of the earldom of Devonshire, &amp;c. The primitive arms
of the Courtenays were, <strong><em>Or</em></strong>,
<strong><em>three torteaux</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Gules</em></strong>, which seem to denote their
affinity with Godfrey of Bouillon, and the ancient counts of
Boulogne.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And
Constantinople. <em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>The Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople. -- Elevation
And Reign Of Michael Pal&aelig;ologus. -- His False Union With
The Pope And The Latin Church. -- Hostile Designs Of Charles Of
Anjou. -- Revolt Of Sicily. -- War Of The Catalans In Asia And
Greece. -- Revolutions And Present State Of Athens.</p>

<p>The loss of Constantinople restored a momentary vigor to the
Greeks. From their palaces, the princes and nobles were driven
into the field; and the fragments of the falling monarchy were
grasped by the hands of the most vigorous or the most skilful
candidates. In the long and barren pages of the Byzantine annals,
^1 it would not be an easy task to equal the two characters of
Theodore Lascaris and John Ducas Vataces, ^2 who replanted and
upheld the Roman standard at Nice in Bithynia. The difference of
their virtues was happily suited to the diversity of their
situation. In his first efforts, the fugitive Lascaris commanded
only three cities and two thousand soldiers: his reign was the
season of generous and active despair: in every military
operation he staked his life and crown; and his enemies of the
Hellespont and the M&aelig;ander, were surprised by his celerity
and subdued by his boldness. A victorious reign of eighteen years
expanded the principality of Nice to the magnitude of an empire.
The throne of his successor and son-in-law Vataces was founded on
a more solid basis, a larger scope, and more plentiful resources;
and it was the temper, as well as the interest, of Vataces to
calculate the risk, to expect the moment, and to insure the
success, of his ambitious designs. In the decline of the Latins,
I have briefly exposed the progress of the Greeks; the prudent
and gradual advances of a conqueror, who, in a reign of
thirty-three years, rescued the provinces from national and
foreign usurpers, till he pressed on all sides the Imperial city,
a leafless and sapless trunk, which must full at the first stroke
of the axe. But his interior and peaceful administration is still
more deserving of notice and praise. ^3 The calamities of the
times had wasted the numbers and the substance of the Greeks; the
motives and the means of agriculture were extirpated; and the
most fertile lands were left without cultivation or inhabitants.
A portion of this vacant property was occupied and improved by
the command, and for the benefit, of the emperor: a powerful hand
and a vigilant eye supplied and surpassed, by a skilful
management, the minute diligence of a private farmer: the royal
domain became the garden and granary of Asia; and without
impoverishing the people, the sovereign acquired a fund of
innocent and productive wealth. According to the nature of the
soil, his lands were sown with corn or planted with vines; the
pastures were filled with horses and oxen, with sheep and hogs;
and when Vataces presented to the empress a crown of diamonds and
pearls, he informed her, with a smile, that this precious
ornament arose from the sale of the eggs of his innumerable
poultry. The produce of his domain was applied to the maintenance
of his palace and hospitals, the calls of dignity and
benevolence: the lesson was still more useful than the revenue:
the plough was restored to its ancient security and honor; and
the nobles were taught to seek a sure and independent revenue
from their estates, instead of adorning their splendid beggary by
the oppression of the people, or (what is almost the same) by the
favors of the court. The superfluous stock of corn and cattle was
eagerly purchased by the Turks, with whom Vataces preserved a
strict and sincere alliance; but he discouraged the importation
of foreign manufactures, the costly silks of the East, and the
curious labors of the Italian looms. "The demands of nature and
necessity," was he accustomed to say, "are indispensable; but the
influence of fashion may rise and sink at the breath of a
monarch;" and both his precept and example recommended simplicity
of manners and the use of domestic industry. The education of
youth and the revival of learning were the most serious objects
of his care; and, without deciding the precedency, he pronounced
with truth, that a prince and a philosopher ^4 are the two most
eminent characters of human society. His first wife was Irene,
the daughter of Theodore Lascaris, a woman more illustrious by
her personal merit, the milder virtues of her sex, than by the
blood of the Angeli and Comneni that flowed in her veins, and
transmitted the inheritance of the empire. After her death he was
contracted to Anne, or Constance, a natural daughter of the
emperor Frederic ^* the Second; but as the bride had not attained
the years of puberty, Vataces placed in his solitary bed an
Italian damsel of her train; and his amorous weakness bestowed on
the concubine the honors, though not the title, of a lawful
empress. His frailty was censured as a flagitious and damnable
sin by the monks; and their rude invectives exercised and
displayed the patience of the royal lover. A philosophic age may
excuse a single vice, which was redeemed by a crowd of virtues;
and in the review of his faults, and the more intemperate
passions of Lascaris, the judgment of their contemporaries was
softened by gratitude to the second founders of the empire. ^5
The slaves of the Latins, without law or peace, applauded the
happiness of their brethren who had resumed their national
freedom; and Vataces employed the laudable policy of convincing
the Greeks of every dominion that it was their interest to be
enrolled in the number of his subjects.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: For the reigns of the Nicene emperors, more
especially of John Vataces and his son, their minister, George
Acropolita, is the only genuine contemporary; but George Pachymer
returned to Constantinople with the Greeks at the age of
nineteen, (Hanckius de Script. Byzant. c. 33, 34, p. 564--578.
Fabric. Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 448--460.) Yet the
history of Nicephorus Gregoras, though of the xivth century, is a
valuable narrative from the taking of Constantinople by the
Latins.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: Nicephorus Gregoras (l. ii. c. 1) distinguishes
between the oxeia ormh of Lascaris, and the eustaqeia of Vataces.
The two portraits are in a very good style.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Pachymer, l. i. c. 23, 24. Nic. Greg. l. ii. c.
6. The reader of the Byzantines must observe how rarely we are
indulged with such precious details.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Monoi gar apantwn anqrwpwn onomastotatoi basileuV
kai jilosojoV, (Greg. Acropol. c. 32.) The emperor, in a familiar
conversation, examined and encouraged the studies of his future
logothete.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Sister of Manfred, afterwards king of Naples.
Nic. Greg. p. 45. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Compare Acropolita, (c. 18, 52,) and the two
first books of Nicephorus Gregoras.]</p>

<p>A strong shade of degeneracy is visible between John Vataces
and his son Theodore; between the founder who sustained the
weight, and the heir who enjoyed the splendor, of the Imperial
crown. ^6 Yet the character of Theodore was not devoid of energy;
he had been educated in the school of his father, in the exercise
of war and hunting; Constantinople was yet spared; but in the
three years of a short reign, he thrice led his armies into the
heart of Bulgaria. His virtues were sullied by a choleric and
suspicious temper: the first of these may be ascribed to the
ignorance of control; and the second might naturally arise from a
dark and imperfect view of the corruption of mankind. On a march
in Bulgaria, he consulted on a question of policy his principal
ministers; and the Greek logothete, George Acropolita, presumed
to offend him by the declaration of a free and honest opinion.
The emperor half unsheathed his cimeter; but his more deliberate
rage reserved Acropolita for a baser punishment. One of the first
officers of the empire was ordered to dismount, stripped of his
robes, and extended on the ground in the presence of the prince
and army. In this posture he was chastised with so many and such
heavy blows from the clubs of two guards or executioners, that
when Theodore commanded them to cease, the great logothete was
scarcely able to rise and crawl away to his tent. After a
seclusion of some days, he was recalled by a peremptory mandate
to his seat in council; and so dead were the Greeks to the sense
of honor and shame, that it is from the narrative of the sufferer
himself that we acquire the knowledge of his disgrace. ^7 The
cruelty of the emperor was exasperated by the pangs of sickness,
the approach of a premature end, and the suspicion of poison and
magic. The lives and fortunes, the eyes and limbs, of his kinsmen
and nobles, were sacrificed to each sally of passion; and before
he died, the son of Vataces might deserve from the people, or at
least from the court, the appellation of tyrant. A matron of the
family of the Pal&aelig;ologi had provoked his anger by refusing
to bestow her beauteous daughter on the vile plebeian who was
recommended by his caprice. Without regard to her birth or age,
her body, as high as the neck, was enclosed in a sack with
several cats, who were pricked with pins to irritate their fury
against their unfortunate fellow-captive. In his last hours the
emperor testified a wish to forgive and be forgiven, a just
anxiety for the fate of John his son and successor, who, at the
age of eight years, was condemned to the dangers of a long
minority. His last choice intrusted the office of guardian to the
sanctity of the patriarch Arsenius, and to the courage of George
Muzalon, the great domestic, who was equally distinguished by the
royal favor and the public hatred. Since their connection with
the Latins, the names and privileges of hereditary rank had
insinuated themselves into the Greek monarchy; and the noble
families ^8 were provoked by the elevation of a worthless
favorite, to whose influence they imputed the errors and
calamities of the late reign. In the first council, after the
emperor's death, Muzalon, from a lofty throne, pronounced a
labored apology of his conduct and intentions: his modesty was
subdued by a unanimous assurance of esteem and fidelity; and his
most inveterate enemies were the loudest to salute him as the
guardian and savior of the Romans. Eight days were sufficient to
prepare the execution of the conspiracy. On the ninth, the
obsequies of the deceased monarch were solemnized in the
cathedral of Magnesia, ^9 an Asiatic city, where he expired, on
the banks of the Hermus, and at the foot of Mount Sipylus. The
holy rites were interrupted by a sedition of the guards; Muzalon,
his brothers, and his adherents, were massacred at the foot of
the altar; and the absent patriarch was associated with a new
colleague, with Michael Pal&aelig;ologus, the most illustrious,
in birth and merit, of the Greek nobles. ^10</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: A Persian saying, that Cyrus was the
<strong><em>father</em></strong> and Darius the
<strong><em>master</em></strong>, of his subjects, was applied to
Vataces and his son. But Pachymer (l. i. c. 23) has mistaken the
mild Darius for the cruel Cambyses, despot or tyrant of his
people. By the institution of taxes, Darius had incurred the less
odious, but more contemptible, name of KaphloV, merchant or
broker, (Herodotus, iii. 89.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: Acropolita (c. 63) seems to admire his own
firmness in sustaining a beating, and not returning to council
till he was called. He relates the exploits of Theodore, and his
own services, from c. 53 to c. 74 of his history. See the third
book of Nicephorus Gregoras.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: Pachymer (l. i. c. 21) names and discriminates
fifteen or twenty Greek families, kai osoi alloi, oiV h
megalogenhV seira kai crush sugkekrothto. Does he mean, by this
decoration, a figurative or a real golden chain? Perhaps,
both.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: The old geographers, with Cellarius and
D'Anville, and our travellers, particularly Pocock and Chandler,
will teach us to distinguish the two Magnesias of Asia Minor, of
the M&aelig;ander and of Sipylus. The latter, our present object,
is still flourishing for a Turkish city, and lies eight hours, or
leagues, to the north-east of Smyrna, (Tournefort, Voyage du
Levant, tom. iii. lettre xxii. p. 365--370. Chandler's Travels
into Asia Minor, p. 267.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: See Acropolita, (c. 75, 76, &amp;c.,) who lived
too near the times; Pachymer, (l. i. c. 13--25,) Gregoras, (l.
iii. c. 3, 4, 5.)]</p>

<p>Of those who are proud of their ancestors, the far greater
part must be content with local or domestic renown; and few there
are who dare trust the memorials of their family to the public
annals of their country. As early as the middle of the eleventh
century, the noble race of the Pal&aelig;ologi ^11 stands high
and conspicuous in the Byzantine history: it was the valiant
George Pal&aelig;ologus who placed the father of the Comneni on
the throne; and his kinsmen or descendants continue, in each
generation, to lead the armies and councils of the state. The
purple was not dishonored by their alliance, and had the law of
succession, and female succession, been strictly observed, the
wife of Theodore Lascaris must have yielded to her elder sister,
the mother of Michael Pal&aelig;ologus, who afterwards raised his
family to the throne. In his person, the splendor of birth was
dignified by the merit of the soldier and statesman: in his early
youth he was promoted to the office of
<strong><em>constable</em></strong> or commander of the French
mercenaries; the private expense of a day never exceeded three
pieces of gold; but his ambition was rapacious and profuse; and
his gifts were doubled by the graces of his conversation and
manners. The love of the soldiers and people excited the jealousy
of the court, and Michael thrice escaped from the dangers in
which he was involved by his own imprudence or that of his
friends. I. Under the reign of Justice and Vataces, a dispute
arose ^12 between two officers, one of whom accused the other of
maintaining the hereditary right of the Pal&aelig;ologi The cause
was decided, according to the new jurisprudence of the Latins, by
single combat; the defendant was overthrown; but he persisted in
declaring that himself alone was guilty; and that he had uttered
these rash or treasonable speeches without the approbation or
knowledge of his patron Yet a cloud of suspicion hung over the
innocence of the constable; he was still pursued by the whispers
of malevolence; and a subtle courtier, the archbishop of
Philadelphia, urged him to accept the judgment of God in the
fiery proof of the ordeal. ^13 Three days before the trial, the
patient's arm was enclosed in a bag, and secured by the royal
signet; and it was incumbent on him to bear a red-hot ball of
iron three times from the altar to the rails of the sanctuary,
without artifice and without injury. Pal&aelig;ologus eluded the
dangerous experiment with sense and pleasantry. "I am a soldier,"
said he, "and will boldly enter the lists with my accusers; but a
layman, a sinner like myself, is not endowed with the gift of
miracles. <strong><em>Your</em></strong> piety, most holy
prelate, may deserve the interposition of Heaven, and from your
hands I will receive the fiery globe, the pledge of my
innocence." The archbishop started; the emperor smiled; and the
absolution or pardon of Michael was approved by new rewards and
new services. II. In the succeeding reign, as he held the
government of Nice, he was secretly informed, that the mind of
the absent prince was poisoned with jealousy; and that death, or
blindness, would be his final reward. Instead of awaiting the
return and sentence of Theodore, the constable, with some
followers, escaped from the city and the empire; and though he
was plundered by the Turkmans of the desert, he found a
hospitable refuge in the court of the sultan. In the ambiguous
state of an exile, Michael reconciled the duties of gratitude and
loyalty: drawing his sword against the Tartars; admonishing the
garrisons of the Roman limit; and promoting, by his influence,
the restoration of peace, in which his pardon and recall were
honorably included. III. While he guarded the West against the
despot of Epirus, Michael was again suspected and condemned in
the palace; and such was his loyalty or weakness, that he
submitted to be led in chains above six hundred miles from
Durazzo to Nice. The civility of the messenger alleviated his
disgrace; the emperor's sickness dispelled his danger; and the
last breath of Theodore, which recommended his infant son, at
once acknowledged the innocence and the power of
Pal&aelig;ologus.</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: The pedigree of Pal&aelig;ologus is explained by
Ducange, (Famil. Byzant. p. 230, &amp;c.:) the events of his
private life are related by Pachymer (l. i. c. 7--12) and
Gregoras (l. ii. 8, l. iii. 2, 4, l. iv. 1) with visible favor to
the father of the reigning dynasty.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: Acropolita (c. 50) relates the circumstances of
this curious adventure, which seem to have escaped the more
recent writers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: Pachymer, (l. i. c. 12,) who speaks with proper
contempt of this barbarous trial, affirms, that he had seen in
his youth many person who had sustained, without injury, the
fiery ordeal. As a Greek, he is credulous; but the ingenuity of
the Greeks might furnish some remedies of art or fraud against
their own superstition, or that of their tyrant.]</p>

<p>But his innocence had been too unworthily treated, and his
power was too strongly felt, to curb an aspiring subject in the
fair field that was opened to his ambition. ^14 In the council,
after the death of Theodore, he was the first to pronounce, and
the first to violate, the oath of allegiance to Muzalon; and so
dexterous was his conduct, that he reaped the benefit, without
incurring the guilt, or at least the reproach, of the subsequent
massacre. In the choice of a regent, he balanced the interests
and passions of the candidates; turned their envy and hatred from
himself against each other, and forced every competitor to own,
that after his own claims, those of Pal&aelig;ologus were best
entitled to the preference. Under the title of great duke, he
accepted or assumed, during a long minority, the active powers of
government; the patriarch was a venerable name; and the factious
nobles were seduced, or oppressed, by the ascendant of his
genius. The fruits of the economy of Vataces were deposited in a
strong castle on the banks of the Hermus, in the custody of the
faithful Varangians: the constable retained his command or
influence over the foreign troops; he employed the guards to
possess the treasure, and the treasure to corrupt the guards; and
whatsoever might be the abuse of the public money, his character
was above the suspicion of private avarice. By himself, or by his
emissaries, he strove to persuade every rank of subjects, that
their own prosperity would rise in just proportion to the
establishment of his authority. The weight of taxes was
suspended, the perpetual theme of popular complaint; and he
prohibited the trials by the ordeal and judicial combat. These
Barbaric institutions were already abolished or undermined in
France ^15 and England; ^16 and the appeal to the sword offended
the sense of a civilized, ^17 and the temper of an unwarlike,
people. For the future maintenance of their wives and children,
the veterans were grateful: the priests and the philosophers
applauded his ardent zeal for the advancement of religion and
learning; and his vague promise of rewarding merit was applied by
every candidate to his own hopes. Conscious of the influence of
the clergy, Michael successfully labored to secure the suffrage
of that powerful order. Their expensive journey from Nice to
Magnesia, afforded a decent and ample pretence: the leading
prelates were tempted by the liberality of his nocturnal visits;
and the incorruptible patriarch was flattered by the homage of
his new colleague, who led his mule by the bridle into the town,
and removed to a respectful distance the importunity of the
crowd. Without renouncing his title by royal descent,
Pal&aelig;ologus encouraged a free discussion into the advantages
of elective monarchy; and his adherents asked, with the insolence
of triumph, what patient would trust his health, or what merchant
would abandon his vessel, to the
<strong><em>hereditary</em></strong> skill of a physician or a
pilot? The youth of the emperor, and the impending dangers of a
minority, required the support of a mature and experienced
guardian; of an associate raised above the envy of his equals,
and invested with the name and prerogatives of royalty. For the
interest of the prince and people, without any selfish views for
himself or his family, the great duke consented to guard and
instruct the son of Theodore; but he sighed for the happy moment
when he might restore to his firmer hands the administration of
his patrimony, and enjoy the blessings of a private station. He
was first invested with the title and prerogatives of
<strong><em>despot</em></strong>, which bestowed the purple
ornaments and the second place in the Roman monarchy. It was
afterwards agreed that John and Michael should be proclaimed as
joint emperors, and raised on the buckler, but that the
preeminence should be reserved for the birthright of the former.
A mutual league of amity was pledged between the royal partners;
and in case of a rupture, the subjects were bound, by their oath
of allegiance, to declare themselves against the aggressor; an
ambiguous name, the seed of discord and civil war.
Pal&aelig;ologus was content; but, on the day of the coronation,
and in the cathedral of Nice, his zealous adherents most
vehemently urged the just priority of his age and merit. The
unseasonable dispute was eluded by postponing to a more
convenient opportunity the coronation of John Lascaris; and he
walked with a slight diadem in the train of his guardian, who
alone received the Imperial crown from the hands of the
patriarch. It was not without extreme reluctance that Arsenius
abandoned the cause of his pupil; out the Varangians brandished
their battle-axes; a sign of assent was extorted from the
trembling youth; and some voices were heard, that the life of a
child should no longer impede the settlement of the nation. A
full harvest of honors and employments was distributed among his
friends by the grateful Pal&aelig;ologus. In his own family he
created a despot and two sebastocrators; Alexius Strategopulus
was decorated with the title of C&aelig;sar; and that veteran
commander soon repaid the obligation, by restoring Constantinople
to the Greek emperor.</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: Without comparing Pachymer to Thucydides or
Tacitus, I will praise his narrative, (l. i. c. 13--32, l. ii. c.
1--9,) which pursues the ascent of Pal&aelig;ologus with
eloquence, perspicuity, and tolerable freedom. Acropolita is more
cautious, and Gregoras more concise.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: The judicial combat was abolished by St. Louis
in his own territories; and his example and authority were at
length prevalent in France, (Esprit des Loix, l. xxviii. c.
29.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: In civil cases Henry II. gave an option to the
defendant: Glanville prefers the proof by evidence; and that by
judicial combat is reprobated in the Fleta. Yet the trial by
battle has never been abrogated in the English law, and it was
ordered by the judges as late as the beginning of the last
century. *</p>

<p>Note *: * And even demanded in the present. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: Yet an ingenious friend has urged to me in
mitigation of this practice, 1. <strong><em>That</em></strong> in
nations emerging from barbarism, it moderates the license of
private war and arbitrary revenge. 2.
<strong><em>That</em></strong> it is less absurd than the trials
by the ordeal, or boiling water, or the cross, which it has
contributed to abolish. 3. <strong><em>That</em></strong> it
served at least as a test of personal courage; a quality so
seldom united with a base disposition, that the danger of a trial
might be some check to a malicious prosecutor, and a useful
barrier against injustice supported by power. The gallant and
unfortunate earl of Surrey might probably have escaped his
unmerited fate, had not his demand of the combat against his
accuser been overruled.]</p>

<p>It was in the second year of his reign, while he resided in
the palace and gardens of Nymph&aelig;um, ^18 near Smyrna, that
the first messenger arrived at the dead of night; and the
stupendous intelligence was imparted to Michael, after he had
been gently waked by the tender precaution of his sister Eulogia.
The man was unknown or obscure; he produced no letters from the
victorious C&aelig;sar; nor could it easily be credited, after
the defeat of Vataces and the recent failure of Pal&aelig;ologus
himself, that the capital had been surprised by a detachment of
eight hundred soldiers. As a hostage, the doubtful author was
confined, with the assurance of death or an ample recompense; and
the court was left some hours in the anxiety of hope and fear,
till the messengers of Alexius arrived with the authentic
intelligence, and displayed the trophies of the conquest, the
sword and sceptre, ^19 the buskins and bonnet, ^20 of the usurper
Baldwin, which he had dropped in his precipitate flight. A
general assembly of the bishops, senators, and nobles, was
immediately convened, and never perhaps was an event received
with more heartfelt and universal joy. In a studied oration, the
new sovereign of Constantinople congratulated his own and the
public fortune. "There was a time," said he, "a far distant time,
when the Roman empire extended to the Adriatic, the Tigris, and
the confines of &AElig;thiopia. After the loss of the provinces,
our capital itself, in these last and calamitous days, has been
wrested from our hands by the Barbarians of the West. From the
lowest ebb, the tide of prosperity has again returned in our
favor; but our prosperity was that of fugitives and exiles: and
when we were asked, which was the country of the Romans, we
indicated with a blush the climate of the globe, and the quarter
of the heavens. The divine Providence has now restored to our
arms the city of Constantine, the sacred seat of religion and
empire; and it will depend on our valor and conduct to render
this important acquisition the pledge and omen of future
victories." So eager was the impatience of the prince and people,
that Michael made his triumphal entry into Constantinople only
twenty days after the expulsion of the Latins. The golden gate
was thrown open at his approach; the devout conqueror dismounted
from his horse; and a miraculous image of Mary the Conductress
was borne before him, that the divine Virgin in person might
appear to conduct him to the temple of her Son, the cathedral of
St. Sophia. But after the first transport of devotion and pride,
he sighed at the dreary prospect of solitude and ruin. The palace
was defiled with smoke and dirt, and the gross intemperance of
the Franks; whole streets had been consumed by fire, or were
decayed by the injuries of time; the sacred and profane edifices
were stripped of their ornaments: and, as if they were conscious
of their approaching exile, the industry of the Latins had been
confined to the work of pillage and destruction. Trade had
expired under the pressure of anarchy and distress, and the
numbers of inhabitants had decreased with the opulence of the
city. It was the first care of the Greek monarch to reinstate the
nobles in the palaces of their fathers; and the houses or the
ground which they occupied were restored to the families that
could exhibit a legal right of inheritance. But the far greater
part was extinct or lost; the vacant property had devolved to the
lord; he repeopled Constantinople by a liberal invitation to the
provinces; and the brave <strong><em>volunteers</em></strong>
were seated in the capital which had been recovered by their
arms. The French barons and the principal families had retired
with their emperor; but the patient and humble crowd of Latins
was attached to the country, and indifferent to the change of
masters. Instead of banishing the factories of the Pisans,
Venetians, and Genoese, the prudent conqueror accepted their
oaths of allegiance, encouraged their industry, confirmed their
privileges, and allowed them to live under the jurisdiction of
their proper magistrates. Of these nations, the Pisans and
Venetians preserved their respective quarters in the city; but
the services and power of the Genoese deserved at the same time
the gratitude and the jealousy of the Greeks. Their independent
colony was first planted at the seaport town of Heraclea in
Thrace. They were speedily recalled, and settled in the exclusive
possession of the suburb of Galata, an advantageous post, in
which they revived the commerce, and insulted the majesty, of the
Byzantine empire. ^21</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: The site of Nymph&aelig;um is not clearly
defined in ancient or modern geography. But from the last hours
of Vataces, (Acropolita, c. 52,) it is evident the palace and
gardens of his favorite residence were in the neighborhood of
Smyrna. Nymph&aelig;um might be loosely placed in Lydia,
(Gregoras, l. vi. 6.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: This sceptre, the emblem of justice and power,
was a long staff, such as was used by the heroes in Homer. By the
latter Greeks it was named <strong><em>Dicanice</em></strong>,
and the Imperial sceptre was distinguished as usual by the red or
purple color.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: Acropolita affirms (c. 87,) that this "Onnet was
after the French fashion; but from the ruby at the point or
summit, Ducange (Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 28, 29) believes that it
was the high-crowned hat of the Greeks. Could Acropolita mistake
the dress of his own court?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: See Pachymer, (l. ii. c. 28--33,) Acropolita,
(c. 88,) Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. iv. 7,) and for the treatment
of the subject Latins, Ducange, (l. v. c. 30, 31.)]</p>

<p>The recovery of Constantinople was celebrated as the &aelig;ra
of a new empire: the conqueror, alone, and by the right of the
sword, renewed his coronation in the church of St. Sophia; and
the name and honors of John Lascaris, his pupil and lawful
sovereign, were insensibly abolished. But his claims still lived
in the minds of the people; and the royal youth must speedily
attain the years of manhood and ambition. By fear or conscience,
Pal&aelig;ologus was restrained from dipping his hands in
innocent and royal blood; but the anxiety of a usurper and a
parent urged him to secure his throne by one of those imperfect
crimes so familiar to the modern Greeks. The loss of sight
incapacitated the young prince for the active business of the
world; instead of the brutal violence of tearing out his eyes,
the visual nerve was destroyed by the intense glare of a red-hot
basin, ^22 and John Lascaris was removed to a distant castle,
where he spent many years in privacy and oblivion. Such cool and
deliberate guilt may seem incompatible with remorse; but if
Michael could trust the mercy of Heaven, he was not inaccessible
to the reproaches and vengeance of mankind, which he had provoked
by cruelty and treason. His cruelty imposed on a servile court
the duties of applause or silence; but the clergy had a right to
speak in the name of their invisible Master; and their holy
legions were led by a prelate, whose character was above the
temptations of hope or fear. After a short abdication of his
dignity, Arsenius ^23 had consented to ascend the ecclesiastical
throne of Constantinople, and to preside in the restoration of
the church. His pious simplicity was long deceived by the arts of
Pal&aelig;ologus; and his patience and submission might soothe
the usurper, and protect the safety of the young prince. On the
news of his inhuman treatment, the patriarch unsheathed the
spiritual sword; and superstition, on this occasion, was enlisted
in the cause of humanity and justice. In a synod of bishops, who
were stimulated by the example of his zeal, the patriarch
pronounced a sentence of excommunication; though his prudence
still repeated the name of Michael in the public prayers. The
Eastern prelates had not adopted the dangerous maxims of ancient
Rome; nor did they presume to enforce their censures, by deposing
princes, or absolving nations from their oaths of allegiance. But
the Christian, who had been separated from God and the church,
became an object of horror; and, in a turbulent and fanatic
capital, that horror might arm the hand of an assassin, or
inflame a sedition of the people. Pal&aelig;ologus felt his
danger, confessed his guilt, and deprecated his judge: the act
was irretrievable; the prize was obtained; and the most rigorous
penance, which he solicited, would have raised the sinner to the
reputation of a saint. The unrelenting patriarch refused to
announce any means of atonement or any hopes of mercy; and
condescended only to pronounce, that for so great a crime, great
indeed must be the satisfaction. "Do you require," said Michael,
"that I should abdicate the empire?" and at these words, he
offered, or seemed to offer, the sword of state. Arsenius eagerly
grasped this pledge of sovereignty; but when he perceived that
the emperor was unwilling to purchase absolution at so dear a
rate, he indignantly escaped to his cell, and left the royal
sinner kneeling and weeping before the door. ^24</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: This milder invention for extinguishing the
sight was tried by the philosopher Democritus on himself, when he
sought to withdraw his mind from the visible world: a foolish
story! The word <strong><em>abacinare</em></strong>, in Latin and
Italian, has furnished Ducange (Gloss. Lat.) with an opportunity
to review the various modes of blinding: the more violent were
scooping, burning with an iron, or hot vinegar, and binding the
head with a strong cord till the eyes burst from their sockets.
Ingenious tyrants!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: See the first retreat and restoration of
Arsenius, in Pachymer (l. ii. c. 15, l. iii. c. 1, 2) and
Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. iii. c. 1, l. iv. c. 1.) Posterity
justly accused the ajeleia and raqumia of Arsenius the virtues of
a hermit, the vices of a minister, (l. xii. c. 2.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: The crime and excommunication of Michael are
fairly told by Pachymer (l. iii. c. 10, 14, 19, &amp;c.) and
Gregoras, (l. iv. c. 4.) His confession and penance restored
their freedom.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And
Constantinople. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>The danger and scandal of this excommunication subsisted above
three years, till the popular clamor was assuaged by time and
repentance; till the brethren of Arsenius condemned his
inflexible spirit, so repugnant to the unbounded forgiveness of
the gospel. The emperor had artfully insinuated, that, if he were
still rejected at home, he might seek, in the Roman pontiff, a
more indulgent judge; but it was far more easy and effectual to
find or to place that judge at the head of the Byzantine church.
Arsenius was involved in a vague rumor of conspiracy and
disaffection; ^* some irregular steps in his ordination and
government were liable to censure; a synod deposed him from the
episcopal office; and he was transported under a guard of
soldiers to a small island of the Propontis. Before his exile, he
sullenly requested that a strict account might be taken of the
treasures of the church; boasted, that his sole riches, three
pieces of gold, had been earned by transcribing the psalms;
continued to assert the freedom of his mind; and denied, with his
last breath, the pardon which was implored by the royal sinner.
^25 After some delay, Gregory, ^* bishop of Adrianople, was
translated to the Byzantine throne; but his authority was found
insufficient to support the absolution of the emperor; and
Joseph, a reverend monk, was substituted to that important
function. This edifying scene was represented in the presence of
the senate and the people; at the end of six years the humble
penitent was restored to the communion of the faithful; and
humanity will rejoice, that a milder treatment of the captive
Lascaris was stipulated as a proof of his remorse. But the spirit
of Arsenius still survived in a powerful faction of the monks and
clergy, who persevered about forty-eight years in an obstinate
schism. Their scruples were treated with tenderness and respect
by Michael and his son; and the reconciliation of the Arsenites
was the serious labor of the church and state. In the confidence
of fanaticism, they had proposed to try their cause by a miracle;
and when the two papers, that contained their own and the adverse
cause, were cast into a fiery brazier, they expected that the
Catholic verity would be respected by the flames. Alas! the two
papers were indiscriminately consumed, and this unforeseen
accident produced the union of a day, and renewed the quarrel of
an age. ^26 The final treaty displayed the victory of the
Arsenites: the clergy abstained during forty days from all
ecclesiastical functions; a slight penance was imposed on the
laity; the body of Arsenius was deposited in the sanctuary; and,
in the name of the departed saint, the prince and people were
released from the sins of their fathers. ^27</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Except the omission of a prayer for the emperor,
the charges against Arsenius were of different nature: he was
accused of having allowed the sultan of Iconium to bathe in
vessels signed with the cross, and to have admitted him to the
church, though unbaptized, during the service. It was pleaded, in
favor of Arsenius, among other proofs of the sultan's
Christianity, that he had offered to eat ham. Pachymer, l. iv. c.
4, p. 265. It was after his exile that he was involved in a
charge of conspiracy. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: Pachymer relates the exile of Arsenius, (l. iv.
c. 1--16:) he was one of the commissaries who visited him in the
desert island. The last testament of the unforgiving patriarch is
still extant, (Dupin, Biblioth&egrave;que Eccl&eacute;siastique,
tom. x. p. 95.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Pachymer calls him Germanus. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: Pachymer (l. vii. c. 22) relates this miraculous
trial like a philosopher, and treats with similar contempt a plot
of the Arsenites, to hide a revelation in the coffin of some old
saint, (l. vii. c. 13.) He compensates this incredulity by an
image that weeps, another that bleeds, (l. vii. c. 30,) and the
miraculous cures of a deaf and a mute patient, (l. xi. c.
32.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: The story of the Arsenites is spread through the
thirteen books of Pachymer. Their union and triumph are reserved
for Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. vii. c. 9,) who neither loves nor
esteems these sectaries.]</p>

<p>The establishment of his family was the motive, or at least
the pretence, of the crime of Pal&aelig;ologus; and he was
impatient to confirm the succession, by sharing with his eldest
son the honors of the purple. Andronicus, afterwards surnamed the
Elder, was proclaimed and crowned emperor of the Romans, in the
fifteenth year of his age; and, from the first &aelig;ra of a
prolix and inglorious reign, he held that august title nine years
as the colleague, and fifty as the successor, of his father.
Michael himself, had he died in a private station, would have
been thought more worthy of the empire; and the assaults of his
temporal and spiritual enemies left him few moments to labor for
his own fame or the happiness of his subjects. He wrested from
the Franks several of the noblest islands of the Archipelago,
Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes: his brother Constantine was sent to
command in Malvasia and Sparta; and the eastern side of the
Morea, from Argos and Napoli to Cape Thinners, was repossessed by
the Greeks. This effusion of Christian blood was loudly condemned
by the patriarch; and the insolent priest presumed to interpose
his fears and scruples between the arms of princes. But in the
prosecution of these western conquests, the countries beyond the
Hellespont were left naked to the Turks; and their depredations
verified the prophecy of a dying senator, that the recovery of
Constantinople would be the ruin of Asia. The victories of
Michael were achieved by his lieutenants; his sword rusted in the
palace; and, in the transactions of the emperor with the popes
and the king of Naples, his political acts were stained with
cruelty and fraud. ^28</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Of the xiii books of Pachymer, the first six (as
the ivth and vth of Nicephorus Gregoras) contain the reign of
Michael, at the time of whose death he was forty years of age.
Instead of breaking, like his editor the P&egrave;re Poussin, his
history into two parts, I follow Ducange and Cousin, who number
the xiii. books in one series.]</p>

<p>I. The Vatican was the most natural refuge of a Latin emperor,
who had been driven from his throne; and Pope Urban the Fourth
appeared to pity the misfortunes, and vindicate the cause, of the
fugitive Baldwin. A crusade, with plenary indulgence, was
preached by his command against the schismatic Greeks: he
excommunicated their allies and adherents; solicited Louis the
Ninth in favor of his kinsman; and demanded a tenth of the
ecclesiastical revenues of France and England for the service of
the holy war. ^29 The subtle Greek, who watched the rising
tempest of the West, attempted to suspend or soothe the hostility
of the pope, by suppliant embassies and respectful letters; but
he insinuated that the establishment of peace must prepare the
reconciliation and obedience of the Eastern church. The Roman
court could not be deceived by so gross an artifice; and Michael
was admonished, that the repentance of the son should precede the
forgiveness of the father; and that
<strong><em>faith</em></strong> (an ambiguous word) was the only
basis of friendship and alliance. After a long and affected
delay, the approach of danger, and the importunity of Gregory the
Tenth, compelled him to enter on a more serious negotiation: he
alleged the example of the great Vataces; and the Greek clergy,
who understood the intentions of their prince, were not alarmed
by the first steps of reconciliation and respect. But when he
pressed the conclusion of the treaty, they strenuously declared,
that the Latins, though not in name, were heretics in fact, and
that they despised those strangers as the vilest and most
despicable portion of the human race. ^30 It was the task of the
emperor to persuade, to corrupt, to intimidate the most popular
ecclesiastics, to gain the vote of each individual, and
alternately to urge the arguments of Christian charity and the
public welfare. The texts of the fathers and the arms of the
Franks were balanced in the theological and political scale; and
without approving the addition to the Nicene creed, the most
moderate were taught to confess, that the two hostile
propositions of proceeding from the Father by the Son, and of
proceeding from the Father and the Son, might be reduced to a
safe and Catholic sense. ^31 The supremacy of the pope was a
doctrine more easy to conceive, but more painful to acknowledge:
yet Michael represented to his monks and prelates, that they
might submit to name the Roman bishop as the first of the
patriarchs; and that their distance and discretion would guard
the liberties of the Eastern church from the mischievous
consequences of the right of appeal. He protested that he would
sacrifice his life and empire rather than yield the smallest
point of orthodox faith or national independence; and this
declaration was sealed and ratified by a golden bull. The
patriarch Joseph withdrew to a monastery, to resign or resume his
throne, according to the event of the treaty: the letters of
union and obedience were subscribed by the emperor, his son
Andronicus, and thirty-five archbishops and metropolitans, with
their respective synods; and the episcopal list was multiplied by
many dioceses which were annihilated under the yoke of the
infidels. An embassy was composed of some trusty ministers and
prelates: they embarked for Italy, with rich ornaments and rare
perfumes for the altar of St. Peter; and their secret orders
authorized and recommended a boundless compliance. They were
received in the general council of Lyons, by Pope Gregory the
Tenth, at the head of five hundred bishops. ^32 He embraced with
tears his long-lost and repentant children; accepted the oath of
the ambassadors, who abjured the schism in the name of the two
emperors; adorned the prelates with the ring and mitre; chanted
in Greek and Latin the Nicene creed with the addition of
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong>; and rejoiced in the union of
the East and West, which had been reserved for his reign. To
consummate this pious work, the Byzantine deputies were speedily
followed by the pope's nuncios; and their instruction discloses
the policy of the Vatican, which could not be satisfied with the
vain title of supremacy. After viewing the temper of the prince
and people, they were enjoined to absolve the schismatic clergy,
who should subscribe and swear their abjuration and obedience; to
establish in all the churches the use of the perfect creed; to
prepare the entrance of a cardinal legate, with the full powers
and dignity of his office; and to instruct the emperor in the
advantages which he might derive from the temporal protection of
the Roman pontiff. ^33</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 33, &amp;c.,
from the Epistles of Urban IV.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: From their mercantile intercourse with the
Venetians and Genoese, they branded the Latins as kaphloi and
banausoi , (Pachymer, l. v. c. 10.) "Some are heretics in name;
others, like the Latins, in fact," said the learned Veccus, (l.
v. c. 12,) who soon afterwards became a convert (c. 15, 16) and a
patriarch, (c. 24.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: In this class we may place Pachymer himself,
whose copious and candid narrative occupies the vth and vith
books of his history. Yet the Greek is silent on the council of
Lyons, and seems to believe that the popes always resided in Rome
and Italy, (l. v. c. 17, 21.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: See the acts of the council of Lyons in the year
1274. Fleury, Hist. Eccl&eacute;siastique, tom. xviii. p.
181--199. Dupin, Bibliot. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. x. p. 135.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: This curious instruction, which has been drawn
with more or less honesty by Wading and Leo Allatius from the
archives of the Vatican, is given in an abstract or version by
Fleury, (tom. xviii. p. 252--258.)]</p>

<p>But they found a country without a friend, a nation in which
the names of Rome and Union were pronounced with abhorrence. The
patriarch Joseph was indeed removed: his place was filled by
Veccus, an ecclesiastic of learning and moderation; and the
emperor was still urged by the same motives, to persevere in the
same professions. But in his private language Pal&aelig;ologus
affected to deplore the pride, and to blame the innovations, of
the Latins; and while he debased his character by this double
hypocrisy, he justified and punished the opposition of his
subjects. By the joint suffrage of the new and the ancient Rome,
a sentence of excommunication was pronounced against the
obstinate schismatics; the censures of the church were executed
by the sword of Michael; on the failure of persuasion, he tried
the arguments of prison and exile, of whipping and mutilation;
those touchstones, says an historian, of cowards and the brave.
Two Greeks still reigned in &AElig;tolia, Epirus, and Thessaly,
with the appellation of despots: they had yielded to the
sovereign of Constantinople, but they rejected the chains of the
Roman pontiff, and supported their refusal by successful arms.
Under their protection, the fugitive monks and bishops assembled
in hostile synods; and retorted the name of heretic with the
galling addition of apostate: the prince of Trebizond was tempted
to assume the forfeit title of emperor; ^* and even the Latins of
Negropont, Thebes, Athens, and the Morea, forgot the merits of
the convert, to join, with open or clandestine aid, the enemies
of Pal&aelig;ologus. His favorite generals, of his own blood, and
family, successively deserted, or betrayed, the sacrilegious
trust. His sister Eulogia, a niece, and two female cousins,
conspired against him; another niece, Mary queen of Bulgaria,
negotiated his ruin with the sultan of Egypt; and, in the public
eye, their treason was consecrated as the most sublime virtue.
^34 To the pope's nuncios, who urged the consummation of the
work, Pal&aelig;ologus exposed a naked recital of all that he had
done and suffered for their sake. They were assured that the
guilty sectaries, of both sexes and every rank, had been deprived
of their honors, their fortunes, and their liberty; a spreading
list of confiscation and punishment, which involved many persons,
the dearest to the emperor, or the best deserving of his favor.
They were conducted to the prison, to behold four princes of the
royal blood chained in the four corners, and shaking their
fetters in an agony of grief and rage. Two of these captives were
afterwards released; the one by submission, the other by death:
but the obstinacy of their two companions was chastised by the
loss of their eyes; and the Greeks, the least adverse to the
union, deplored that cruel and inauspicious tragedy. ^35
Persecutors must expect the hatred of those whom they oppress;
but they commonly find some consolation in the testimony of their
conscience, the applause of their party, and, perhaps, the
success of their undertaking. But the hypocrisy of Michael, which
was prompted only by political motives, must have forced him to
hate himself, to despise his followers, and to esteem and envy
the rebel champions by whom he was detested and despised. While
his violence was abhorred at Constantinople, at Rome his slowness
was arraigned, and his sincerity suspected; till at length Pope
Martin the Fourth excluded the Greek emperor from the pale of a
church, into which he was striving to reduce a schismatic people.
No sooner had the tyrant expired, than the union was dissolved,
and abjured by unanimous consent; the churches were purified; the
penitents were reconciled; and his son Andronicus, after weeping
the sins and errors of his youth most piously denied his father
the burial of a prince and a Christian. ^36</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to Fallmarayer he had always maintained
this title. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: This frank and authentic confession of Michael's
distress is exhibited in barbarous Latin by Ogerius, who signs
himself Protonotarius Interpretum, and transcribed by Wading from
the MSS. of the Vatican, (A.D. 1278, No. 3.) His annals of the
Franciscan order, the Fratres Minores, in xvii. volumes in folio,
(Rome, 1741,) I have now accidentally seen among the waste paper
of a bookseller.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: See the vith book of Pachymer, particularly the
chapters 1, 11, 16, 18, 24--27. He is the more credible, as he
speaks of this persecution with less anger than sorrow.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: Pachymer, l. vii. c. 1--ii. 17. The speech of
Andronicus the Elder (lib. xii. c. 2) is a curious record, which
proves that if the Greeks were the slaves of the emperor, the
emperor was not less the slave of superstition and the
clergy.]</p>

<p>II. In the distress of the Latins, the walls and towers of
Constantinople had fallen to decay: they were restored and
fortified by the policy of Michael, who deposited a plenteous
store of corn and salt provisions, to sustain the siege which he
might hourly expect from the resentment of the Western powers. Of
these, the sovereign of the Two Sicilies was the most formidable
neighbor: but as long as they were possessed by Mainfroy, the
bastard of Frederic the Second, his monarchy was the bulwark,
rather than the annoyance, of the Eastern empire. The usurper,
though a brave and active prince, was sufficiently employed in
the defence of his throne: his proscription by successive popes
had separated Mainfroy from the common cause of the Latins; and
the forces that might have besieged Constantinople were detained
in a crusade against the domestic enemy of Rome. The prize of her
avenger, the crown of the Two Sicilies, was won and worn by the
brother of St Louis, by Charles count of Anjou and Provence, who
led the chivalry of France on this holy expedition. ^37 The
disaffection of his Christian subjects compelled Mainfroy to
enlist a colony of Saracens whom his father had planted in
Apulia; and this odious succor will explain the defiance of the
Catholic hero, who rejected all terms of accommodation. "Bear
this message," said Charles, "to the sultan of Nocera, that God
and the sword are umpire between us; and that he shall either
send me to paradise, or I will send him to the pit of hell." The
armies met: and though I am ignorant of Mainfroy's doom in the
other world, in this he lost his friends, his kingdom, and his
life, in the bloody battle of Benevento. Naples and Sicily were
immediately peopled with a warlike race of French nobles; and
their aspiring leader embraced the future conquest of Africa,
Greece, and Palestine. The most specious reasons might point his
first arms against the Byzantine empire; and Pal&aelig;ologus,
diffident of his own strength, repeatedly appealed from the
ambition of Charles to the humanity of St. Louis, who still
preserved a just ascendant over the mind of his ferocious
brother. For a while the attention of that brother was confined
at home by the invasion of Conradin, the last heir to the
imperial house of Swabia; but the hapless boy sunk in the unequal
conflict; and his execution on a public scaffold taught the
rivals of Charles to tremble for their heads as well as their
dominions. A second respite was obtained by the last crusade of
St. Louis to the African coast; and the double motive of interest
and duty urged the king of Naples to assist, with his powers and
his presence, the holy enterprise. The death of St. Louis
released him from the importunity of a virtuous censor: the king
of Tunis confessed himself the tributary and vassal of the crown
of Sicily; and the boldest of the French knights were free to
enlist under his banner against the Greek empire. A treaty and a
marriage united his interest with the house of Courtenay; his
daughter Beatrice was promised to Philip, son and heir of the
emperor Baldwin; a pension of six hundred ounces of gold was
allowed for his maintenance; and his generous father distributed
among his aliens the kingdoms and provinces of the East,
reserving only Constantinople, and one day's journey round the
city for the imperial domain. ^38 In this perilous moment,
Pal&aelig;ologus was the most eager to subscribe the creed, and
implore the protection, of the Roman pontiff, who assumed, with
propriety and weight, the character of an angel of peace, the
common father of the Christians. By his voice, the sword of
Charles was chained in the scabbard; and the Greek ambassadors
beheld him, in the pope's antechamber, biting his ivory sceptre
in a transport of fury, and deeply resenting the refusal to
enfranchise and consecrate his arms. He appears to have respected
the disinterested mediation of Gregory the Tenth; but Charles was
insensibly disgusted by the pride and partiality of Nicholas the
Third; and his attachment to his kindred, the Ursini family,
alienated the most strenuous champion from the service of the
church. The hostile league against the Greeks, of Philip the
Latin emperor, the king of the Two Sicilies, and the republic of
Venice, was ripened into execution; and the election of Martin
the Fourth, a French pope, gave a sanction to the cause. Of the
allies, Philip supplied his name; Martin, a bull of
excommunication; the Venetians, a squadron of forty galleys; and
the formidable powers of Charles consisted of forty counts, ten
thousand men at arms, a numerous body of infantry, and a fleet of
more than three hundred ships and transports. A distant day was
appointed for assembling this mighty force in the harbor of
Brindisi; and a previous attempt was risked with a detachment of
three hundred knights, who invaded Albania, and besieged the
fortress of Belgrade. Their defeat might amuse with a triumph the
vanity of Constantinople; but the more sagacious Michael,
despairing of his arms, depended on the effects of a conspiracy;
on the secret workings of a rat, who gnawed the bowstring ^39 of
the Sicilian tyrant.</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: The best accounts, the nearest the time, the
most full and entertaining, of the conquest of Naples by Charles
of Anjou, may be found in the Florentine Chronicles of Ricordano
Malespina, (c. 175--193,) and Giovanni Villani, (l. vii. c.
1--10, 25--30,) which are published by Muratori in the viiith and
xiiith volumes of the Historians of Italy. In his Annals (tom.
xi. p. 56--72) he has abridged these great events which are
likewise described in the Istoria Civile of Giannone. tom. l.
xix. tom. iii. l. xx.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 49--56, l. vi.
c. 1--13. See Pachymer, l. iv. c. 29, l. v. c. 7--10, 25 l. vi.
c. 30, 32, 33, and Nicephorus Gregoras, l. iv. 5, l. v. 1,
6.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: The reader of Herodotus will recollect how
miraculously the Assyrian host of Sennacherib was disarmed and
destroyed, (l. ii. c. 141.)]</p>

<p>Among the proscribed adherents of the house of Swabia, John of
Procida forfeited a small island of that name in the Bay of
Naples. His birth was noble, but his education was learned; and
in the poverty of exile, he was relieved by the practice of
physic, which he had studied in the school of Salerno. Fortune
had left him nothing to lose, except life; and to despise life is
the first qualification of a rebel. Procida was endowed with the
art of negotiation, to enforce his reasons and disguise his
motives; and in his various transactions with nations and men, he
could persuade each party that he labored solely for
<strong><em>their</em></strong> interest. The new kingdoms of
Charles were afflicted by every species of fiscal and military
oppression; ^40 and the lives and fortunes of his Italian
subjects were sacrificed to the greatness of their master and the
licentiousness of his followers. The hatred of Naples was
repressed by his presence; but the looser government of his
vicegerents excited the contempt, as well as the aversion, of the
Sicilians: the island was roused to a sense of freedom by the
eloquence of Procida; and he displayed to every baron his private
interest in the common cause. In the confidence of foreign aid,
he successively visited the courts of the Greek emperor, and of
Peter king of Arragon, ^41 who possessed the maritime countries
of Valentia and Catalonia. To the ambitious Peter a crown was
presented, which he might justly claim by his marriage with the
sister ^* of Mainfroy, and by the dying voice of Conradin, who
from the scaffold had cast a ring to his heir and avenger.
Pal&aelig;ologus was easily persuaded to divert his enemy from a
foreign war by a rebellion at home; and a Greek subsidy of
twenty-five thousand ounces of gold was most profitably applied
to arm a Catalan fleet, which sailed under a holy banner to the
specious attack of the Saracens of Africa. In the disguise of a
monk or beggar, the indefatigable missionary of revolt flew from
Constantinople to Rome, and from Sicily to Saragossa: the treaty
was sealed with the signet of Pope Nicholas himself, the enemy of
Charles; and his deed of gift transferred the fiefs of St. Peter
from the house of Anjou to that of Arragon. So widely diffused
and so freely circulated, the secret was preserved above two
years with impenetrable discretion; and each of the conspirators
imbibed the maxim of Peter, who declared that he would cut off
his left hand if it were conscious of the intentions of his
right. The mine was prepared with deep and dangerous artifice;
but it may be questioned, whether the instant explosion of
Palermo were the effect of accident or design.</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: According to Sabas Malaspina, (Hist. Sicula, l.
iii. c. 16, in Muratori, tom. viii. p. 832,) a zealous Guelph,
the subjects of Charles, who had reviled Mainfroy as a wolf,
began to regret him as a lamb; and he justifies their discontent
by the oppressions of the French government, (l. vi. c. 2, 7.)
See the Sicilian manifesto in Nicholas Specialis, (l. i. c. 11,
in Muratori, tom. x. p. 930.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: See the character and counsels of Peter, king of
Arragon, in Mariana, (Hist. Hispan. l. xiv. c. 6, tom. ii. p.
133.) The reader for gives the Jesuit's defects, in favor, always
of his style, and often of his sense.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Daughter. See Hallam's Middle Ages, vol. i. p.
517. -- M.]</p>

<p>On the vigil of Easter, a procession of the disarmed citizens
visited a church without the walls; and a noble damsel was rudely
insulted by a French soldier. ^42 The ravisher was instantly
punished with death; and if the people was at first scattered by
a military force, their numbers and fury prevailed: the
conspirators seized the opportunity; the flame spread over the
island; and eight thousand French were exterminated in a
promiscuous massacre, which has obtained the name of the Sicilian
Vespers. ^43 From every city the banners of freedom and the
church were displayed: the revolt was inspired by the presence or
the soul of Procida and Peter of Arragon, who sailed from the
African coast to Palermo, was saluted as the king and savior of
the isle. By the rebellion of a people on whom he had so long
trampled with impunity, Charles was astonished and confounded;
and in the first agony of grief and devotion, he was heard to
exclaim, "O God! if thou hast decreed to humble me, grant me at
least a gentle and gradual descent from the pinnacle of
greatness!" His fleet and army, which already filled the seaports
of Italy, were hastily recalled from the service of the Grecian
war; and the situation of Messina exposed that town to the first
storm of his revenge. Feeble in themselves, and yet hopeless of
foreign succor, the citizens would have repented, and submitted
on the assurance of full pardon and their ancient privileges. But
the pride of the monarch was already rekindled; and the most
fervent entreaties of the legate could extort no more than a
promise, that he would forgive the remainder, after a chosen list
of eight hundred rebels had been yielded to his discretion. The
despair of the Messinese renewed their courage: Peter of Arragon
approached to their relief; ^44 and his rival was driven back by
the failure of provision and the terrors of the equinox to the
Calabrian shore. At the same moment, the Catalan admiral, the
famous Roger de Loria, swept the channel with an invincible
squadron: the French fleet, more numerous in transports than in
galleys, was either burnt or destroyed; and the same blow assured
the independence of Sicily and the safety of the Greek empire. A
few days before his death, the emperor Michael rejoiced in the
fall of an enemy whom he hated and esteemed; and perhaps he might
be content with the popular judgment, that had they not been
matched with each other, Constantinople and Italy must speedily
have obeyed the same master. ^45 From this disastrous moment, the
life of Charles was a series of misfortunes: his capital was
insulted, his son was made prisoner, and he sunk into the grave
without recovering the Isle of Sicily, which, after a war of
twenty years, was finally severed from the throne of Naples, and
transferred, as an independent kingdom, to a younger branch of
the house of Arragon. ^46</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: After enumerating the sufferings of his country,
Nicholas Specialis adds, in the true spirit of Italian jealousy,
Qu&aelig; omnia et graviora quidem, ut arbitror, patienti animo
Siculi tolerassent, nisi (quod primum cunctis dominantibus
cavendum est) alienas fminas invasissent, (l. i. c. 2, p.
924.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: The French were long taught to remember this
bloody lesson: "If I am provoked, (said Henry the Fourth,) I will
breakfast at Milan, and dine at Naples." "Your majesty (replied
the Spanish ambassador) may perhaps arrive in Sicily for
vespers."]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: This revolt, with the subsequent victory, are
related by two national writers, Bartholemy &agrave; Neocastro
(in Muratori, tom. xiii.,) and Nicholas Specialis (in Muratori,
tom. x.,) the one a contemporary, the other of the next century.
The patriot Specialis disclaims the name of rebellion, and all
previous correspondence with Peter of Arragon, (nullo communicato
consilio,) who <strong><em>happened</em></strong> to be with a
fleet and army on the African coast, (l. i. c. 4, 9.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: Nicephorus Gregoras (l. v. c. 6) admires the
wisdom of Providence in this equal balance of states and princes.
For the honor of Pal&aelig;ologus, I had rather this balance had
been observed by an Italian writer.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: See the Chronicle of Villani, the xith volume of
the Annali d'Italia of Muratori, and the xxth and xxist books of
the Istoria Civile of Giannone.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And
Constantinople. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>I shall not, I trust, be accused of superstition; but I must
remark that, even in this world, the natural order of events will
sometimes afford the strong appearances of moral retribution. The
first Pal&aelig;ologus had saved his empire by involving the
kingdoms of the West in rebellion and blood; and from these
scenes of discord uprose a generation of iron men, who assaulted
and endangered the empire of his son. In modern times our debts
and taxes are the secret poison which still corrodes the bosom of
peace: but in the weak and disorderly government of the middle
ages, it was agitated by the present evil of the disbanded
armies. Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were
accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity
and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom
their service was useless, and their presence importunate,
endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring
countries. After the peace of Sicily, many thousands of Genoese,
<strong><em>Catalans</em></strong>, ^47 &amp;c., who had fought,
by sea and land, under the standard of Anjou or Arragon, were
blended into one nation by the resemblance of their manners and
interest. They heard that the Greek provinces of Asia were
invaded by the Turks: they resolved to share the harvest of pay
and plunder: and Frederic king of Sicily most liberally
contributed the means of their departure. In a warfare of twenty
years, a ship, or a camp, was become their country; arms were
their sole profession and property; valor was the only virtue
which they knew; their women had imbibed the fearless temper of
their lovers and husbands: it was reported, that, with a stroke
of their broadsword, the Catalans could cleave a horseman and a
horse; and the report itself was a powerful weapon. Roger de Flor
^* was the most popular of their chiefs; and his personal merit
overshadowed the dignity of his prouder rivals of Arragon. The
offspring of a marriage between a German gentleman of the court
of Frederic the Second and a damsel of Brindisi, Roger was
successively a templar, an apostate, a pirate, and at length the
richest and most powerful admiral of the Mediterranean. He sailed
from Messina to Constantinople, with eighteen galleys, four great
ships, and eight thousand adventurers; ^* and his previous treaty
was faithfully accomplished by Andronicus the elder, who accepted
with joy and terror this formidable succor. A palace was allotted
for his reception, and a niece of the emperor was given in
marriage to the valiant stranger, who was immediately created
great duke or admiral of Romania. After a decent repose, he
transported his troops over the Propontis, and boldly led them
against the Turks: in two bloody battles thirty thousand of the
Moslems were slain: he raised the siege of Philadelphia, and
deserved the name of the deliverer of Asia. But after a short
season of prosperity, the cloud of slavery and ruin again burst
on that unhappy province. The inhabitants escaped (says a Greek
historian) from the smoke into the flames; and the hostility of
the Turks was less pernicious than the friendship of the
Catalans. ^! The lives and fortunes which they had rescued they
considered as their own: the willing or reluctant maid was saved
from the race of circumcision for the embraces of a Christian
soldier: the exaction of fines and supplies was enforced by
licentious rapine and arbitrary executions; and, on the
resistance of Magnesia, the great duke besieged a city of the
Roman empire. ^48 These disorders he excused by the wrongs and
passions of a victorious army; nor would his own authority or
person have been safe, had he dared to punish his faithful
followers, who were defrauded of the just and covenanted price of
their services. The threats and complaints of Andronicus
disclosed the nakedness of the empire. His golden bull had
invited no more than five hundred horse and a thousand foot
soldiers; yet the crowds of volunteers, who migrated to the East,
had been enlisted and fed by his spontaneous bounty. While his
bravest allies were content with three byzants or pieces of gold,
for their monthly pay, an ounce, or even two ounces, of gold were
assigned to the Catalans, whose annual pension would thus amount
to near a hundred pounds sterling: one of their chiefs had
modestly rated at three hundred thousand crowns the value of his
<strong><em>future</em></strong> merits; and above a million had
been issued from the treasury for the maintenance of these costly
mercenaries. A cruel tax had been imposed on the corn of the
husbandman: one third was retrenched from the salaries of the
public officers; and the standard of the coin was so shamefully
debased, that of the four-and-twenty parts only five were of pure
gold. ^49 At the summons of the emperor, Roger evacuated a
province which no longer supplied the materials of rapine; ^* but
he refused to disperse his troops; and while his style was
respectful, his conduct was independent and hostile. He
protested, that if the emperor should march against him, he would
advance forty paces to kiss the ground before him; but in rising
from this prostrate attitude Roger had a life and sword at the
service of his friends. The great duke of Romania condescended to
accept the title and ornaments of C&aelig;sar; but he rejected
the new proposal of the government of Asia with a subsidy of corn
and money, ^* on condition that he should reduce his troops to
the harmless number of three thousand men. Assassination is the
last resource of cowards. The C&aelig;sar was tempted to visit
the royal residence of Adrianople; in the apartment, and before
the eyes, of the empress he was stabbed by the Alani guards; and
though the deed was imputed to their private revenge, ^! his
countrymen, who dwelt at Constantinople in the security of peace,
were involved in the same proscription by the prince or people.
The loss of their leader intimidated the crowd of adventurers,
who hoisted the sails of flight, and were soon scattered round
the coasts of the Mediterranean. But a veteran band of fifteen
hundred Catalans, or French, stood firm in the strong fortress of
Gallipoli on the Hellespont, displayed the banners of Arragon,
and offered to revenge and justify their chief, by an equal
combat of ten or a hundred warriors. Instead of accepting this
bold defiance, the emperor Michael, the son and colleague of
Andronicus, resolved to oppress them with the weight of
multitudes: every nerve was strained to form an army of thirteen
thousand horse and thirty thousand foot; and the Propontis was
covered with the ships of the Greeks and Genoese. In two battles
by sea and land, these mighty forces were encountered and
overthrown by the despair and discipline of the Catalans: the
young emperor fled to the palace; and an insufficient guard of
light-horse was left for the protection of the open country.
Victory renewed the hopes and numbers of the adventures: every
nation was blended under the name and standard of the
<strong><em>great company</em></strong>; and three thousand
Turkish proselytes deserted from the Imperial service to join
this military association. In the possession of Gallipoli, ^!!
the Catalans intercepted the trade of Constantinople and the
Black Sea, while they spread their devastation on either side of
the Hellespont over the confines of Europe and Asia. To prevent
their approach, the greatest part of the Byzantine territory was
laid waste by the Greeks themselves: the peasants and their
cattle retired into the city; and myriads of sheep and oxen, for
which neither place nor food could be procured, were unprofitably
slaughtered on the same day. Four times the emperor Andronicus
sued for peace, and four times he was inflexibly repulsed, till
the want of provisions, and the discord of the chiefs, compelled
the Catalans to evacuate the banks of the Hellespont and the
neighborhood of the capital. After their separation from the
Turks, the remains of the great company pursued their march
through Macedonia and Thessaly, to seek a new establishment in
the heart of Greece. ^50</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: In this motley multitude, the Catalans and
Spaniards, the bravest of the soldiery, were styled by themselves
and the Greeks <strong><em>Amogavares</em></strong>. Moncada
derives their origin from the Goths, and Pachymer (l. xi. c. 22)
from the Arabs; and in spite of national and religious pride, I
am afraid the latter is in the right.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: On Roger de Flor and his companions, see an
historical fragment, detailed and interesting, entitled "The
Spaniards of the Fourteenth Century," and inserted in "L'Espagne
en 1808," a work translated from the German, vol. ii. p. 167.
This narrative enables us to detect some slight errors which have
crept into that of Gibbon. -- G.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The troops of Roger de Flor, according to his
companions Ramon de Montaner, were 1500 men at arms, 4000
Almogavares, and 1040 other foot, besides the sailors and
mariners, vol. ii. p. 137. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Ramon de Montaner suppresses the cruelties and
oppressions of the Catalans, in which, perhaps, he shared. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: Some idea may be formed of the population of
these cities, from the 36,000 inhabitants of Tralles, which, in
the preceding reign, was rebuilt by the emperor, and ruined by
the Turks. (Pachymer, l. vi. c. 20, 21.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: I have collected these pecuniary circumstances
from Pachymer, (l. xi. c. 21, l. xii. c. 4, 5, 8, 14, 19,) who
describes the progressive degradation of the gold coin. Even in
the prosperous times of John Ducas Vataces, the byzants were
composed in equal proportions of the pure and the baser metal.
The poverty of Michael Pal&aelig;ologus compelled him to strike a
new coin, with nine parts, or carats, of gold, and fifteen of
copper alloy. After his death, the standard rose to ten carats,
till in the public distress it was reduced to the moiety. The
prince was relieved for a moment, while credit and commerce were
forever blasted. In France, the gold coin is of twenty-two
carats, (one twelfth alloy,) and the standard of England and
Holland is still higher.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Roger de Flor, according to Ramon de Montaner,
was recalled from Natolia, on account of the war which had arisen
on the death of Asan, king of Bulgaria. Andronicus claimed the
kingdom for his nephew, the sons of Asan by his sister. Roger de
Flor turned the tide of success in favor of the emperor of
Constantinople and made peace. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Andronicus paid the Catalans in the debased
money, much to their indignation. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: According to Ramon de Montaner, he was murdered
by order of Kyr (kurioV) Michael, son of the emperor. p. 170. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: Ramon de Montaner describes his sojourn at
Gallipoli: Nous etions si riches, que nous ne semions, ni ne
labourions, ni ne faisions enver des vins ni ne cultivions les
vignes: et cependant tous les ans nous recucillions tour ce qu'il
nous fallait, en vin, froment et avoine. p. 193. This lasted for
five merry years. Ramon de Montaner is high authority, for he was
"chancelier et maitre rational de l'arm&eacute;e," (commissary of
<strong><em>rations</em></strong>.) He was left governor; all the
scribes of the army remained with him, and with their aid he kept
the books in which were registered the number of horse and foot
employed on each expedition. According to this book the plunder
was shared, of which he had a fifth for his trouble. p. 197. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The Catalan war is most copiously related by
Pachymer, in the xith, xiith, and xiiith books, till he breaks
off in the year 1308. Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii. 3--6) is more
concise and complete. Ducange, who adopts these adventurers as
French, has hunted their footsteps with his usual diligence,
(Hist. de C. P. l. vi. c. 22--46.) He quotes an Arragonese
history, which I have read with pleasure, and which the Spaniards
extol as a model of style and composition, (Expedicion de los
Catalanes y Arragoneses contra Turcos y Griegos: Barcelona, 1623
in quarto: Madrid, 1777, in octavo.) Don Francisco de Moncada
Conde de Ossona, may imitate C&aelig;sar or Sallust; he may
transcribe the Greek or Italian contemporaries: but he never
quotes his authorities, and I cannot discern any national records
of the exploits of his countrymen. *</p>

<p>Note: * Ramon de Montaner, one of the Catalans, who
accompanied Roger de Flor, and who was governor of Gallipoli, has
written, in Spanish, the history of this band of adventurers, to
which he belonged, and from which he separated when it left the
Thracian Chersonese to penetrate into Macedonia and Greece. --
G.</p>

<p>The autobiography of Ramon de Montaner has been published in
French by M. Buchon, in the great collection of M&eacute;moires
relatifs &agrave; l'Histoire de France. I quote this edition. --
M.]</p>

<p>After some ages of oblivion, Greece was awakened to new
misfortunes by the arms of the Latins. In the two hundred and
fifty years between the first and the last conquest of
Constantinople, that venerable land was disputed by a multitude
of petty tyrants; without the comforts of freedom and genius, her
ancient cities were again plunged in foreign and intestine war;
and, if servitude be preferable to anarchy, they might repose
with joy under the Turkish yoke. I shall not pursue the obscure
and various dynasties, that rose and fell on the continent or in
the isles; but our silence on the fate of Athens ^51 would argue
a strange ingratitude to the first and purest school of liberal
science and amusement. In the partition of the empire, the
principality of Athens and Thebes was assigned to Otho de la
Roche, a noble warrior of Burgundy, ^52 with the title of great
duke, ^53 which the Latins understood in their own sense, and the
Greeks more foolishly derived from the age of Constantine. ^54
Otho followed the standard of the marquis of Montferrat: the
ample state which he acquired by a miracle of conduct or fortune,
^55 was peaceably inherited by his son and two grandsons, till
the family, though not the nation, was changed, by the marriage
of an heiress into the elder branch of the house of Brienne. The
son of that marriage, Walter de Brienne, succeeded to the duchy
of Athens; and, with the aid of some Catalan mercenaries, whom he
invested with fiefs, reduced above thirty castles of the vassal
or neighboring lords. But when he was informed of the approach
and ambition of the great company, he collected a force of seven
hundred knights, six thousand four hundred horse, and eight
thousand foot, and boldly met them on the banks of the River
Cephisus in Botia. The Catalans amounted to no more than three
thousand five hundred horse, and four thousand foot; but the
deficiency of numbers was compensated by stratagem and order.
They formed round their camp an artificial inundation; the duke
and his knights advanced without fear or precaution on the
verdant meadow; their horses plunged into the bog; and he was cut
in pieces, with the greatest part of the French cavalry. His
family and nation were expelled; and his son Walter de Brienne,
the titular duke of Athens, the tyrant of Florence, and the
constable of France, lost his life in the field of Poitiers
Attica and Botia were the rewards of the victorious Catalans;
they married the widows and daughters of the slain; and during
fourteen years, the great company was the terror of the Grecian
states. Their factions drove them to acknowledge the sovereignty
of the house of Arragon; and during the remainder of the
fourteenth century, Athens, as a government or an appanage, was
successively bestowed by the kings of Sicily. After the French
and Catalans, the third dynasty was that of the Accaioli, a
family, plebeian at Florence, potent at Naples, and sovereign in
Greece. Athens, which they embellished with new buildings, became
the capital of a state, that extended over Thebes, Argos,
Corinth, Delphi, and a part of Thessaly; and their reign was
finally determined by Mahomet the Second, who strangled the last
duke, and educated his sons in the discipline and religion of the
seraglio.</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: See the laborious history of Ducange, whose
accurate table of the French dynasties recapitulates the
thirty-five passages, in which he mentions the dukes of
Athens.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: He is twice mentioned by Villehardouin with
honor, (No. 151, 235;) and under the first passage, Ducange
observes all that can be known of his person and family.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: From these Latin princes of the xivth century,
Boccace, Chaucer. and Shakspeare, have borrowed their Theseus
<strong><em>duke</em></strong> of Athens. An ignorant age
transfers its own language and manners to the most distant
times.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: The same Constantine gave to Sicily a king, to
Russia the <strong><em>magnus dapifer</em></strong> of the
empire, to Thebes the <strong><em>primicerius</em></strong>; and
these absurd fables are properly lashed by Ducange, (ad Nicephor.
Greg. l. vii. c. 5.) By the Latins, the lord of Thebes was
styled, by corruption, the Megas Kurios, or Grand Sire!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: <strong><em>Quodam miraculo</em></strong>, says
Alberic. He was probably received by Michael Choniates, the
archbishop who had defended Athens against the tyrant Leo Sgurus,
(Nicetas urbs capta, p. 805, ed. Bek.) Michael was the brother of
the historian Nicetas; and his encomium of Athens is still extant
in MS. in the Bodleian library, (Fabric. Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c tom.
vi. p. 405.) *</p>

<p>Note: * Nicetas says expressly that Michael surrendered the
Acropolis to the marquis. -- M.]</p>

<p>Athens, ^56 though no more than the shadow of her former self,
still contains about eight or ten thousand inhabitants; of these,
three fourths are Greeks in religion and language; and the Turks,
who compose the remainder, have relaxed, in their intercourse
with the citizens, somewhat of the pride and gravity of their
national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva,
flourishes in Attica; nor has the honey of Mount Hymettus lost
any part of its exquisite flavor: ^57 but the languid trade is
monopolized by strangers, and the agriculture of a barren land is
abandoned to the vagrant Walachians. The Athenians are still
distinguished by the subtlety and acuteness of their
understandings; but these qualities, unless ennobled by freedom,
and enlightened by study, will degenerate into a low and selfish
cunning: and it is a proverbial saying of the country, "From the
Jews of Thessalonica, the Turks of Negropont, and the Greeks of
Athens, good Lord deliver us!" This artful people has eluded the
tyranny of the Turkish bashaws, by an expedient which alleviates
their servitude and aggravates their shame. About the middle of
the last century, the Athenians chose for their protector the
Kislar Aga, or chief black eunuch of the seraglio. This
&AElig;thiopian slave, who possesses the sultan's ear,
condescends to accept the tribute of thirty thousand crowns: his
lieutenant, the Waywode, whom he annually confirms, may reserve
for his own about five or six thousand more; and such is the
policy of the citizens, that they seldom fail to remove and
punish an oppressive governor. Their private differences are
decided by the archbishop, one of the richest prelates of the
Greek church, since he possesses a revenue of one thousand pounds
sterling; and by a tribunal of the eight
<strong><em>geronti</em></strong> or elders, chosen in the eight
quarters of the city: the noble families cannot trace their
pedigree above three hundred years; but their principal members
are distinguished by a grave demeanor, a fur cap, and the lofty
appellation of <strong><em>archon</em></strong>. By some, who
delight in the contrast, the modern language of Athens is
represented as the most corrupt and barbarous of the seventy
dialects of the vulgar Greek: ^58 this picture is too darkly
colored: but it would not be easy, in the country of Plato and
Demosthenes, to find a reader or a copy of their works. The
Athenians walk with supine indifference among the glorious ruins
of antiquity; and such is the debasement of their character, that
they are incapable of admiring the genius of their predecessors.
^59</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: The modern account of Athens, and the Athenians,
is extracted from Spon, (Voyage en Grece, tom. ii. p. 79--199,)
and Wheeler, (Travels into Greece, p. 337--414,) Stuart,
(Antiquities of Athens, passim,) and Chandler, (Travels into
Greece, p. 23--172.) The first of these travellers visited Greece
in the year 1676; the last, 1765; and ninety years had not
produced much difference in the tranquil scene.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: The ancients, or at least the Athenians,
believed that all the bees in the world had been propagated from
Mount Hymettus. They taught, that health might be preserved, and
life prolonged, by the external use of oil, and the internal use
of honey, (Geoponica, l. xv. c 7, p. 1089--1094, edit.
Niclas.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Ducange, Glossar. Gr&aelig;c. Pr&aelig;fat. p.
8, who quotes for his author Theodosius Zygomalas, a modern
grammarian. Yet Spon (tom. ii. p. 194) and Wheeler, (p. 355,) no
incompetent judges, entertain a more favorable opinion of the
Attic dialect.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Yet we must not accuse them of corrupting the
name of Athens, which they still call Athini. From the eiV thn
'Aqhnhn, we have formed our own barbarism of
<strong><em>Setines</em></strong>. *</p>

<p>Note: * Gibbon did not foresee a Bavarian prince on the throne
of Greece, with Athens as his capital. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXIII: Civil Wars And The Ruin Of The Greek
Empire.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Civil Wars, And Ruin Of The Greek Empire. -- Reigns Of
Andronicus, The Elder And Younger, And John Pal&aelig;ologus. --
Regency, Revolt, Reign, And Abdication Of John Cantacuzene. --
Establishment Of A Genoese Colony At Pera Or Galata. -- Their
Wars With The Empire And City Of Constantinople.</p>

<p>The long reign of Andronicus ^1 the elder is chiefly memorable
by the disputes of the Greek church, the invasion of the
Catalans, and the rise of the Ottoman power. He is celebrated as
the most learned and virtuous prince of the age; but such virtue,
and such learning, contributed neither to the perfection of the
individual, nor to the happiness of society A slave of the most
abject superstition, he was surrounded on all sides by visible
and invisible enemies; nor were the flames of hell less dreadful
to his fancy, than those of a Catalan or Turkish war. Under the
reign of the Pal&aelig;ologi, the choice of the patriarch was the
most important business of the state; the heads of the Greek
church were ambitious and fanatic monks; and their vices or
virtues, their learning or ignorance, were equally mischievous or
contemptible. By his intemperate discipline, the patriarch
Athanasius ^2 excited the hatred of the clergy and people: he was
heard to declare, that the sinner should swallow the last dregs
of the cup of penance; and the foolish tale was propagated of his
punishing a sacrilegious ass that had tasted the lettuce of a
convent garden. Driven from the throne by the universal clamor,
Athanasius composed before his retreat two papers of a very
opposite cast. His public testament was in the tone of charity
and resignation; the private codicil breathed the direst
anathemas against the authors of his disgrace, whom he excluded
forever from the communion of the holy trinity, the angels, and
the saints. This last paper he enclosed in an earthen pot, which
was placed, by his order, on the top of one of the pillars, in
the dome of St. Sophia, in the distant hope of discovery and
revenge. At the end of four years, some youths, climbing by a
ladder in search of pigeons' nests, detected the fatal secret;
and, as Andronicus felt himself touched and bound by the
excommunication, he trembled on the brink of the abyss which had
been so treacherously dug under his feet. A synod of bishops was
instantly convened to debate this important question: the
rashness of these clandestine anathemas was generally condemned;
but as the knot could be untied only by the same hand, as that
hand was now deprived of the crosier, it appeared that this
posthumous decree was irrevocable by any earthly power. Some
faint testimonies of repentance and pardon were extorted from the
author of the mischief; but the conscience of the emperor was
still wounded, and he desired, with no less ardor than Athanasius
himself, the restoration of a patriarch, by whom alone he could
be healed. At the dead of night, a monk rudely knocked at the
door of the royal bed-chamber, announcing a revelation of plague
and famine, of inundations and earthquakes. Andronicus started
from his bed, and spent the night in prayer, till he felt, or
thought that he felt, a slight motion of the earth. The emperor
on foot led the bishops and monks to the cell of Athanasius; and,
after a proper resistance, the saint, from whom this message had
been sent, consented to absolve the prince, and govern the church
of Constantinople. Untamed by disgrace, and hardened by solitude,
the shepherd was again odious to the flock, and his enemies
contrived a singular, and as it proved, a successful, mode of
revenge. In the night, they stole away the footstool or
foot-cloth of his throne, which they secretly replaced with the
decoration of a satirical picture. The emperor was painted with a
bridle in his mouth, and Athanasius leading the tractable beast
to the feet of Christ. The authors of the libel were detected and
punished; but as their lives had been spared, the Christian
priest in sullen indignation retired to his cell; and the eyes of
Andronicus, which had been opened for a moment, were again closed
by his successor.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: Andronicus himself will justify our freedom in
the invective, (Nicephorus Gregoras, l. i. c. i.,) which he
pronounced against historic falsehood. It is true, that his
censure is more pointedly urged against calumny than against
adulation.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: For the anathema in the pigeon's nest, see
Pachymer, (l. ix. c. 24,) who relates the general history of
Athanasius, (l. viii. c. 13--16, 20, 24, l. x. c. 27--29, 31--36,
l. xi. c. 1--3, 5, 6, l. xiii. c. 8, 10, 23, 35,) and is followed
by Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. vi. c. 5, 7, l. vii. c. 1, 9,) who
includes the second retreat of this second Chrysostom.]</p>

<p>If this transaction be one of the most curious and important
of a reign of fifty years, I cannot at least accuse the brevity
of my materials, since I reduce into some few pages the enormous
folios of Pachymer, ^3 Cantacuzene, ^4 and Nicephorus Gregoras,
^5 who have composed the prolix and languid story of the times.
The name and situation of the emperor John Cantacuzene might
inspire the most lively curiosity. His memorials of forty years
extend from the revolt of the younger Andronicus to his own
abdication of the empire; and it is observed, that, like Moses
and C&aelig;sar, he was the principal actor in the scenes which
he describes. But in this eloquent work we should vainly seek the
sincerity of a hero or a penitent. Retired in a cloister from the
vices and passions of the world, he presents not a confession,
but an apology, of the life of an ambitious statesman. Instead of
unfolding the true counsels and characters of men, he displays
the smooth and specious surface of events, highly varnished with
his own praises and those of his friends. Their motives are
always pure; their ends always legitimate: they conspire and
rebel without any views of interest; and the violence which they
inflict or suffer is celebrated as the spontaneous effect of
reason and virtue.</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Pachymer, in seven books, 377 folio pages,
describes the first twenty-six years of Andronicus the Elder; and
marks the date of his composition by the current news or lie of
the day, (A.D. 1308.) Either death or disgust prevented him from
resuming the pen.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: After an interval of twelve years, from the
conclusion of Pachymer, Cantacuzenus takes up the pen; and his
first book (c. 1--59, p. 9--150) relates the civil war, and the
eight last years of the elder Andronicus. The ingenious
comparison with Moses and C&aelig;sar is fancied by his French
translator, the president Cousin.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Nicephorus Gregoras more briefly includes the
entire life and reign of Andronicus the elder, (l. vi. c. 1, p.
96--291.) This is the part of which Cantacuzene complains as a
false and malicious representation of his conduct.]</p>

<p>After the example of the first of the Pal&aelig;ologi, the
elder Andronicus associated his son Michael to the honors of the
purple; and from the age of eighteen to his premature death, that
prince was acknowledged, above twenty-five years, as the second
emperor of the Greeks. ^6 At the head of an army, he excited
neither the fears of the enemy, nor the jealousy of the court;
his modesty and patience were never tempted to compute the years
of his father; nor was that father compelled to repent of his
liberality either by the virtues or vices of his son. The son of
Michael was named Andronicus from his grandfather, to whose early
favor he was introduced by that nominal resemblance. The blossoms
of wit and beauty increased the fondness of the elder Andronicus;
and, with the common vanity of age, he expected to realize in the
second, the hope which had been disappointed in the first,
generation. The boy was educated in the palace as an heir and a
favorite; and in the oaths and acclamations of the people, the
<strong><em>august triad</em></strong> was formed by the names of
the father, the son, and the grandson. But the younger Andronicus
was speedily corrupted by his infant greatness, while he beheld
with puerile impatience the double obstacle that hung, and might
long hang, over his rising ambition. It was not to acquire fame,
or to diffuse happiness, that he so eagerly aspired: wealth and
impunity were in his eyes the most precious attributes of a
monarch; and his first indiscreet demand was the sovereignty of
some rich and fertile island, where he might lead a life of
independence and pleasure. The emperor was offended by the loud
and frequent intemperance which disturbed his capital; the sums
which his parsimony denied were supplied by the Genoese usurers
of Pera; and the oppressive debt, which consolidated the interest
of a faction, could be discharged only by a revolution. A
beautiful female, a matron in rank, a prostitute in manners, had
instructed the younger Andronicus in the rudiments of love; but
he had reason to suspect the nocturnal visits of a rival; and a
stranger passing through the street was pierced by the arrows of
his guards, who were placed in ambush at her door. That stranger
was his brother, Prince Manuel, who languished and died of his
wound; and the emperor Michael, their common father, whose health
was in a declining state, expired on the eighth day, lamenting
the loss of both his children. ^7 However guiltless in his
intention, the younger Andronicus might impute a brother's and a
father's death to the consequence of his own vices; and deep was
the sigh of thinking and feeling men, when they perceived,
instead of sorrow and repentance, his ill-dissembled joy on the
removal of two odious competitors. By these melancholy events,
and the increase of his disorders, the mind of the elder emperor
was gradually alienated; and, after many fruitless reproofs, he
transferred on another grandson ^8 his hopes and affection. The
change was announced by the new oath of allegiance to the
reigning sovereign, and the <strong><em>person</em></strong> whom
he should appoint for his successor; and the acknowledged heir,
after a repetition of insults and complaints, was exposed to the
indignity of a public trial. Before the sentence, which would
probably have condemned him to a dungeon or a cell, the emperor
was informed that the palace courts were filled with the armed
followers of his grandson; the judgment was softened to a treaty
of reconciliation; and the triumphant escape of the prince
encouraged the ardor of the younger faction.</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: He was crowned May 21st, 1295, and died October
12th, 1320, (Ducange, Fam. Byz. p. 239.) His brother Theodore, by
a second marriage, inherited the marquisate of Montferrat,
apostatized to the religion and manners of the Latins, (oti kai
gnwmh kai pistei kai schkati, kai geneiwn koura kai pasin eqesin
DatinoV hn akraijnhV. Nic. Greg. l. ix. c. 1,) and founded a
dynasty of Italian princes, which was extinguished A.D. 1533,
(Ducange, Fam. Byz. p. 249--253.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: We are indebted to Nicephorus Gregoras (l. viii.
c. 1) for the knowledge of this tragic adventure; while
Cantacuzene more discreetly conceals the vices of Andronicus the
Younger, of which he was the witness and perhaps the associate,
(l. i. c. 1, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: His destined heir was Michael Catharus, the
bastard of Constantine his second son. In this project of
excluding his grandson Andronicus, Nicephorus Gregoras (l. viii.
c. 3) agrees with Cantacuzene, (l. i. c. 1, 2.)]</p>

<p>Yet the capital, the clergy, and the senate, adhered to the
person, or at least to the government, of the old emperor; and it
was only in the provinces, by flight, and revolt, and foreign
succor, that the malecontents could hope to vindicate their cause
and subvert his throne. The soul of the enterprise was the great
domestic John Cantacuzene; the sally from Constantinople is the
first date of his actions and memorials; and if his own pen be
most descriptive of his patriotism, an unfriendly historian has
not refused to celebrate the zeal and ability which he displayed
in the service of the young emperor. ^* That prince escaped from
the capital under the pretence of hunting; erected his standard
at Adrianople; and, in a few days, assembled fifty thousand horse
and foot, whom neither honor nor duty could have armed against
the Barbarians. Such a force might have saved or commanded the
empire; but their counsels were discordant, their motions were
slow and doubtful, and their progress was checked by intrigue and
negotiation. The quarrel of the two Andronici was protracted, and
suspended, and renewed, during a ruinous period of seven years.
In the first treaty, the relics of the Greek empire were divided:
Constantinople, Thessalonica, and the islands, were left to the
elder, while the younger acquired the sovereignty of the greatest
part of Thrace, from Philippi to the Byzantine limit. By the
second treaty, he stipulated the payment of his troops, his
immediate coronation, and an adequate share of the power and
revenue of the state. The third civil war was terminated by the
surprise of Constantinople, the final retreat of the old emperor,
and the sole reign of his victorious grandson. The reasons of
this delay may be found in the characters of the men and of the
times. When the heir of the monarchy first pleaded his wrongs and
his apprehensions, he was heard with pity and applause: and his
adherents repeated on all sides the inconsistent promise, that he
would increase the pay of the soldiers and alleviate the burdens
of the people. The grievances of forty years were mingled in his
revolt; and the rising generation was fatigued by the endless
prospect of a reign, whose favorites and maxims were of other
times. The youth of Andronicus had been without spirit, his age
was without reverence: his taxes produced an unusual revenue of
five hundred thousand pounds; yet the richest of the sovereigns
of Christendom was incapable of maintaining three thousand horse
and twenty galleys, to resist the destructive progress of the
Turks. ^9 "How different," said the younger Andronicus, "is my
situation from that of the son of Philip! Alexander might
complain, that his father would leave him nothing to conquer:
alas! my grandsire will leave me nothing to lose." But the Greeks
were soon admonished, that the public disorders could not be
healed by a civil war; and that their young favorite was not
destined to be the savior of a falling empire. On the first
repulse, his party was broken by his own levity, their intestine
discord, and the intrigues of the ancient court, which tempted
each malecontent to desert or betray the cause of the rebellion.
Andronicus the younger was touched with remorse, or fatigued with
business, or deceived by negotiation: pleasure rather than power
was his aim; and the license of maintaining a thousand hounds, a
thousand hawks, and a thousand huntsmen, was sufficient to sully
his fame and disarm his ambition.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The conduct of Cantacuzene, by his own showing,
was inexplicable. He was unwilling to dethrone the old emperor,
and dissuaded the immediate march on Constantinople. The young
Andronicus, he says, entered into his views, and wrote to warn
the emperor of his danger when the march was determined.
Cantacuzenus, in Nov. Byz. Hist. Collect. vol. i. p. 104, &amp;c.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: See Nicephorus Gregoras, l. viii. c. 6. The
younger Andronicus complained, that in four years and four months
a sum of 350,000 byzants of gold was due to him for the expenses
of his household, (Cantacuzen l. i. c. 48.) Yet he would have
remitted the debt, if he might have been allowed to squeeze the
farmers of the revenue.]</p>

<p>Let us now survey the catastrophe of this busy plot, and the
final situation of the principal actors. ^10 The age of
Andronicus was consumed in civil discord; and, amidst the events
of war and treaty, his power and reputation continually decayed,
till the fatal night in which the gates of the city and palace
were opened without resistance to his grandson. His principal
commander scorned the repeated warnings of danger; and retiring
to rest in the vain security of ignorance, abandoned the feeble
monarch, with some priests and pages, to the terrors of a
sleepless night. These terrors were quickly realized by the
hostile shouts, which proclaimed the titles and victory of
Andronicus the younger; and the aged emperor, falling prostrate
before an image of the Virgin, despatched a suppliant message to
resign the sceptre, and to obtain his life at the hands of the
conqueror. The answer of his grandson was decent and pious; at
the prayer of his friends, the younger Andronicus assumed the
sole administration; but the elder still enjoyed the name and
preeminence of the first emperor, the use of the great palace,
and a pension of twenty-four thousand pieces of gold, one half of
which was assigned on the royal treasury, and the other on the
fishery of Constantinople. But his impotence was soon exposed to
contempt and oblivion; the vast silence of the palace was
disturbed only by the cattle and poultry of the neighborhood, ^*
which roved with impunity through the solitary courts; and a
reduced allowance of ten thousand pieces of gold ^11 was all that
he could ask, and more than he could hope. His calamities were
imbittered by the gradual extinction of sight; his confinement
was rendered each day more rigorous; and during the absence and
sickness of his grandson, his inhuman keepers, by the threats of
instant death, compelled him to exchange the purple for the
monastic habit and profession. The monk
<strong><em>Antony</em></strong> had renounced the pomp of the
world; yet he had occasion for a coarse fur in the winter season,
and as wine was forbidden by his confessor, and water by his
physician, the sherbet of Egypt was his common drink. It was not
without difficulty that the late emperor could procure three or
four pieces to satisfy these simple wants; and if he bestowed the
gold to relieve the more painful distress of a friend, the
sacrifice is of some weight in the scale of humanity and
religion. Four years after his abdication, Andronicus or Antony
expired in a cell, in the seventy-fourth year of his age: and the
last strain of adulation could only promise a more splendid crown
of glory in heaven than he had enjoyed upon earth. ^12 ^!</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: I follow the chronology of Nicephorus Gregoras,
who is remarkably exact. It is proved that Cantacuzene has
mistaken the dates of his own actions, or rather that his text
has been corrupted by ignorant transcribers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: And the washerwomen, according to Nic. Gregoras,
p. 431. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: I have endeavored to reconcile the 24,000 pieces
of Cantacuzene (l. ii. c. 1) with the 10,000 of Nicephorus
Gregoras, (l. ix. c. 2;) the one of whom wished to soften, the
other to magnify, the hardships of the old emperor.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: See Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. ix. 6, 7, 8, 10,
14, l. x. c. 1.) The historian had tasted of the prosperity, and
shared the retreat, of his benefactor; and that friendship which
"waits or to the scaffold or the cell," should not lightly be
accused as "a hireling, a prostitute to praise." *</p>

<p>Note: *But it may be accused of unparalleled absurdity. He
compares the extinction of the feeble old man to that of the sun:
his coffin is to be floated like Noah's ark by a deluge of tears.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Prodigies (according to Nic. Gregoras, p. 460)
announced the departure of the old and imbecile Imperial Monk
from his earthly prison. -- M.]</p>

<p>Nor was the reign of the younger, more glorious or fortunate
than that of the elder, Andronicus. ^13 He gathered the fruits of
ambition; but the taste was transient and bitter: in the supreme
station he lost the remains of his early popularity; and the
defects of his character became still more conspicuous to the
world. The public reproach urged him to march in person against
the Turks; nor did his courage fail in the hour of trial; but a
defeat and a wound were the only trophies of his expedition in
Asia, which confirmed the establishment of the Ottoman monarchy.
The abuses of the civil government attained their full maturity
and perfection: his neglect of forms, and the confusion of
national dresses, are deplored by the Greeks as the fatal
symptoms of the decay of the empire. Andronicus was old before
his time; the intemperance of youth had accelerated the
infirmities of age; and after being rescued from a dangerous
malady by nature, or physic, or the Virgin, he was snatched away
before he had accomplished his forty-fifth year. He was twice
married; and, as the progress of the Latins in arms and arts had
softened the prejudices of the Byzantine court, his two wives
were chosen in the princely houses of Germany and Italy. The
first, Agnes at home, Irene in Greece, was daughter of the duke
of Brunswick. Her father ^14 was a petty lord ^15 in the poor and
savage regions of the north of Germany: ^16 yet he derived some
revenue from his silver mines; ^17 and his family is celebrated
by the Greeks as the most ancient and noble of the Teutonic name.
^18 After the death of this childish princess, Andronicus sought
in marriage Jane, the sister of the count of Savoy; ^19 and his
suit was preferred to that of the French king. ^20 The count
respected in his sister the superior majesty of a Roman empress:
her retinue was composed of knights and ladies; she was
regenerated and crowned in St. Sophia, under the more orthodox
appellation of Anne; and, at the nuptial feast, the Greeks and
Italians vied with each other in the martial exercises of tilts
and tournaments.</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The sole reign of Andronicus the younger is
described by Cantacuzene (l. ii. c. 1--40, p. 191--339) and
Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. ix c. 7--l. xi. c. 11, p.
262--361.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: Agnes, or Irene, was the daughter of Duke Henry
the Wonderful, the chief of the house of Brunswick, and the
fourth in descent from the famous Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony
and Bavaria, and conqueror of the Sclavi on the Baltic coast. Her
brother Henry was surnamed the <strong><em>Greek</em></strong>,
from his two journeys into the East: but these journeys were
subsequent to his sister's marriage; and I am ignorant
<strong><em>how</em></strong> Agnes was discovered in the heart
of Germany, and recommended to the Byzantine court. (Rimius,
Memoirs of the House of Brunswick, p. 126--137.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Henry the Wonderful was the founder of the
branch of Grubenhagen, extinct in the year 1596, (Rimius, p.
287.) He resided in the castle of Wolfenbuttel, and possessed no
more than a sixth part of the allodial estates of Brunswick and
Luneburgh, which the Guelph family had saved from the
confiscation of their great fiefs. The frequent partitions among
brothers had almost ruined the princely houses of Germany, till
that just, but pernicious, law was slowly superseded by the right
of primogeniture. The principality of Grubenhagen, one of the
last remains of the Hercynian forest, is a woody, mountainous,
and barren tract, (Busching's Geography, vol. vi. p. 270--286,
English translation.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: The royal author of the Memoirs of Brandenburgh
will teach us, how justly, in a much later period, the north of
Germany deserved the epithets of poor and barbarous. (Essai sur
les Murs, &amp;c.) In the year 1306, in the woods of Luneburgh,
some wild people of the Vened race were allowed to bury alive
their infirm and useless parents. (Rimius, p. 136.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: The assertion of Tacitus, that Germany was
destitute of the precious metals, must be taken, even in his own
time, with some limitation, (Germania, c. 5. Annal. xi. 20.)
According to Spener, (Hist. Germani&aelig; Pragmatica, tom. i. p.
351,) <strong><em>Argentifodin</em></strong> in Hercyniis
montibus, imperante Othone magno (A.D. 968) primum apert&aelig;,
largam etiam opes augendi dederunt copiam: but Rimius (p. 258,
259) defers till the year 1016 the discovery of the silver mines
of Grubenhagen, or the Upper Hartz, which were productive in the
beginning of the xivth century, and which still yield a
considerable revenue to the house of Brunswick.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Cantacuzene has given a most honorable
testimony, hn d' ek Germanvn auth Jugathr doukoV nti Mprouzouhk,
(the modern Greeks employ the nt for the d, and the mp for the b,
and the whole will read in the Italian idiom di Brunzuic,) tou
par autoiV epijanestatou, kai ?iamprothti pantaV touV omojulouV
uperballontoV. The praise is just in itself, and pleasing to an
English ear.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: Anne, or Jane, was one of the four daughters of
Amed&eacute;e the Great, by a second marriage, and half-sister of
his successor Edward count of Savoy. (Anderson's Tables, p. 650.
See Cantacuzene, (l. i. c. 40--42.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: That king, if the fact be true, must have been
Charles the Fair who in five years (1321--1326) was married to
three wives, (Anderson, p. 628.) Anne of Savoy arrived at
Constantinople in February, 1326.]</p>

<p>The empress Anne of Savoy survived her husband: their son,
John Pal&aelig;ologus, was left an orphan and an emperor in the
ninth year of his age; and his weakness was protected by the
first and most deserving of the Greeks. The long and cordial
friendship of his father for John Cantacuzene is alike honorable
to the prince and the subject. It had been formed amidst the
pleasures of their youth: their families were almost equally
noble; ^21 and the recent lustre of the purple was amply
compensated by the energy of a private education. We have seen
that the young emperor was saved by Cantacuzene from the power of
his grandfather; and, after six years of civil war, the same
favorite brought him back in triumph to the palace of
Constantinople. Under the reign of Andronicus the younger, the
great domestic ruled the emperor and the empire; and it was by
his valor and conduct that the Isle of Lesbos and the
principality of &AElig;tolia were restored to their ancient
allegiance. His enemies confess, that, among the public robbers,
Cantacuzene alone was moderate and abstemious; and the free and
voluntary account which he produces of his own wealth ^22 may
sustain the presumption that he was devolved by inheritance, and
not accumulated by rapine. He does not indeed specify the value
of his money, plate, and jewels; yet, after a voluntary gift of
two hundred vases of silver, after much had been secreted by his
friends and plundered by his foes, his forfeit treasures were
sufficient for the equipment of a fleet of seventy galleys. He
does not measure the size and number of his estates; but his
granaries were heaped with an incredible store of wheat and
barley; and the labor of a thousand yoke of oxen might cultivate,
according to the practice of antiquity, about sixty-two thousand
five hundred acres of arable land. ^23 His pastures were stocked
with two thousand five hundred brood mares, two hundred camels,
three hundred mules, five hundred asses, five thousand horned
cattle, fifty thousand hogs, and seventy thousand sheep: ^24 a
precious record of rural opulence, in the last period of the
empire, and in a land, most probably in Thrace, so repeatedly
wasted by foreign and domestic hostility. The favor of
Cantacuzene was above his fortune. In the moments of familiarity,
in the hour of sickness, the emperor was desirous to level the
distance between them and pressed his friend to accept the diadem
and purple. The virtue of the great domestic, which is attested
by his own pen, resisted the dangerous proposal; but the last
testament of Andronicus the younger named him the guardian of his
son, and the regent of the empire.</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: The noble race of the Cantacuzeni (illustrious
from the xith century in the Byzantine annals) was drawn from the
Paladins of France, the heroes of those romances which, in the
xiiith century, were translated and read by the Greeks, (Ducange,
Fam. Byzant. p. 258.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: See Cantacuzene, (l. iii. c. 24, 30, 36.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: Saserna, in Gaul, and Columella, in Italy or
Spain, allow two yoke of oxen, two drivers, and six laborers, for
two hundred jugera (125 English acres) of arable land, and three
more men must be added if there be much underwood, (Columella de
Re Rustica, l. ii. c. 13, p 441, edit. Gesner.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: In this enumeration (l. iii. c. 30) the French
translation of the president Cousin is blotted with three
palpable and essential errors. 1. He omits the 1000 yoke of
working oxen. 2. He interprets the pentakosiai proV diaciliaiV,
by the number of fifteen hundred. * 3. He confounds myriads with
chiliads, and gives Cantacuzene no more than 5000 hogs. Put not
your trust in translations!</p>

<p>Note: * There seems to be another reading, ciliaiV. Niebuhr's
edit. in loc. -- M.]</p>

<p>Had the regent found a suitable return of obedience and
gratitude, perhaps he would have acted with pure and zealous
fidelity in the service of his pupil. ^25 A guard of five hundred
soldiers watched over his person and the palace; the funeral of
the late emperor was decently performed; the capital was silent
and submissive; and five hundred letters, which Cantacuzene
despatched in the first month, informed the provinces of their
loss and their duty. The prospect of a tranquil minority was
blasted by the great duke or admiral Apocaucus, and to exaggerate
<strong><em>his</em></strong> perfidy, the Imperial historian is
pleased to magnify his own imprudence, in raising him to that
office against the advice of his more sagacious sovereign. Bold
and subtle, rapacious and profuse, the avarice and ambition of
Apocaucus were by turns subservient to each other; and his
talents were applied to the ruin of his country. His arrogance
was heightened by the command of a naval force and an impregnable
castle, and under the mask of oaths and flattery he secretly
conspired against his benefactor. The female court of the empress
was bribed and directed; he encouraged Anne of Savoy to assert,
by the law of nature, the tutelage of her son; the love of power
was disguised by the anxiety of maternal tenderness: and the
founder of the Pal&aelig;ologi had instructed his posterity to
dread the example of a perfidious guardian. The patriarch John of
Apri was a proud and feeble old man, encompassed by a numerous
and hungry kindred. He produced an obsolete epistle of
Andronicus, which bequeathed the prince and people to his pious
care: the fate of his predecessor Arsenius prompted him to
prevent, rather than punish, the crimes of a usurper; and
Apocaucus smiled at the success of his own flattery, when he
beheld the Byzantine priest assuming the state and temporal
claims of the Roman pontiff. ^26 Between three persons so
different in their situation and character, a private league was
concluded: a shadow of authority was restored to the senate; and
the people was tempted by the name of freedom. By this powerful
confederacy, the great domestic was assaulted at first with
clandestine, at length with open, arms. His prerogatives were
disputed; his opinions slighted; his friends persecuted; and his
safety was threatened both in the camp and city. In his absence
on the public service, he was accused of treason; proscribed as
an enemy of the church and state; and delivered with all his
adherents to the sword of justice, the vengeance of the people,
and the power of the devil; his fortunes were confiscated; his
aged mother was cast into prison; ^* all his past services were
buried in oblivion; and he was driven by injustice to perpetrate
the crime of which he was accused. ^27 From the review of his
preceding conduct, Cantacuzene appears to have been guiltless of
any treasonable designs; and the only suspicion of his innocence
must arise from the vehemence of his protestations, and the
sublime purity which he ascribes to his own virtue. While the
empress and the patriarch still affected the appearances of
harmony, he repeatedly solicited the permission of retiring to a
private, and even a monastic, life. After he had been declared a
public enemy, it was his fervent wish to throw himself at the
feet of the young emperor, and to receive without a murmur the
stroke of the executioner: it was not without reluctance that he
listened to the voice of reason, which inculcated the sacred duty
of saving his family and friends, and proved that he could only
save them by drawing the sword and assuming the Imperial
title.</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: See the regency and reign of John Cantacuzenus,
and the whole progress of the civil war, in his own history, (l.
iii. c. 1--100, p. 348--700,) and in that of Nicephorus Gregoras,
(l. xii. c. 1--l. xv. c. 9, p. 353--492.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: He assumes the royal privilege of red shoes or
buskins; placed on his head a mitre of silk and gold; subscribed
his epistles with hyacinth or green ink, and claimed for the new,
whatever Constantine had given to the ancient, Rome, (Cantacuzen.
l. iii. c. 36. Nic. Gregoras, l. xiv. c. 3.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: She died there through persecution and neglect.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Nic. Gregoras (l. xii. c. 5) confesses the
innocence and virtues of Cantacuzenus, the guilt and flagitious
vices of Apocaucus; nor does he dissemble the motive of his
personal and religious enmity to the former; nun de dia kakian
allwn, aitioV o praotatoV thV tvn olwn edoxaV? eioai jqoraV.</p>

<p>Note: The alloi were the religious enemies and persecutors of
Nicephorus. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIII: Civil Wars And The Ruin Of The
Greek Empire. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>In the strong city of Demotica, his peculiar domain, the
emperor John Cantacuzenus was invested with the purple buskins:
his right leg was clothed by his noble kinsmen, the left by the
Latin chiefs, on whom he conferred the order of knighthood. But
even in this act of revolt, he was still studious of loyalty; and
the titles of John Pal&aelig;ologus and Anne of Savoy were
proclaimed before his own name and that of his wife Irene. Such
vain ceremony is a thin disguise of rebellion, nor are there
perhaps any personal wrongs that can authorize a subject to take
arms against his sovereign: but the want of preparation and
success may confirm the assurance of the usurper, that this
decisive step was the effect of necessity rather than of choice.
Constantinople adhered to the young emperor; the king of Bulgaria
was invited to the relief of Adrianople: the principal cities of
Thrace and Macedonia, after some hesitation, renounced their
obedience to the great domestic; and the leaders of the troops
and provinces were induced, by their private interest, to prefer
the loose dominion of a woman and a priest. ^* The army of
Cantacuzene, in sixteen divisions, was stationed on the banks of
the Melas to tempt or to intimidate the capital: it was dispersed
by treachery or fear; and the officers, more especially the
mercenary Latins, accepted the bribes, and embraced the service,
of the Byzantine court. After this loss, the rebel emperor (he
fluctuated between the two characters) took the road of
Thessalonica with a chosen remnant; but he failed in his
enterprise on that important place; and he was closely pursued by
the great duke, his enemy Apocaucus, at the head of a superior
power by sea and land. Driven from the coast, in his march, or
rather flight, into the mountains of Servia, Cantacuzene
assembled his troops to scrutinize those who were worthy and
willing to accompany his broken fortunes. A base majority bowed
and retired; and his trusty band was diminished to two thousand,
and at last to five hundred, volunteers. The
<strong><em>cral</em></strong>, ^28 or despot of the Servians
received him with general hospitality; but the ally was
insensibly degraded to a suppliant, a hostage, a captive; and in
this miserable dependence, he waited at the door of the
Barbarian, who could dispose of the life and liberty of a Roman
emperor. The most tempting offers could not persuade the cral to
violate his trust; but he soon inclined to the stronger side; and
his friend was dismissed without injury to a new vicissitude of
hopes and perils. Near six years the flame of discord burnt with
various success and unabated rage: the cities were distracted by
the faction of the nobles and the plebeians; the Cantacuzeni and
Pal&aelig;ologi: and the Bulgarians, the Servians, and the Turks,
were invoked on both sides as the instruments of private ambition
and the common ruin. The regent deplored the calamities, of which
he was the author and victim: and his own experience might
dictate a just and lively remark on the different nature of
foreign and civil war. "The former," said he, "is the external
warmth of summer, always tolerable, and often beneficial; the
latter is the deadly heat of a fever, which consumes without a
remedy the vitals of the constitution." ^29</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Cantacuzene asserts, that in all the cities, the
populace were on the side of the emperor, the aristocracy on his.
The populace took the opportunity of rising and plundering the
wealthy as Cantacuzenites, vol. iii. c. 29 Ages of common
oppression and ruin had not extinguished these republican
factions. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: The princes of Servia (Ducange, Famil.
Dalmatic&aelig;, &amp;c., c. 2, 3, 4, 9) were styled Despots in
Greek, and Cral in their native idiom, (Ducange, Gloss.
Gr&aelig;c. p. 751.) That title, the equivalent of king, appears
to be of Sclavonic origin, from whence it has been borrowed by
the Hungarians, the modern Greeks, and even by the Turks,
(Leunclavius, Pandect. Turc. p. 422,) who reserve the name of
Padishah for the emperor. To obtain the latter instead of the
former is the ambition of the French at Constantinople,
(Aversissement &agrave; l'Histoire de Timur Bec, p. 39.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Nic. Gregoras, l. xii. c. 14. It is surprising
that Cantacuzene has not inserted this just and lively image in
his own writings.]</p>

<p>The introduction of barbarians and savages into the contests
of civilized nations, is a measure pregnant with shame and
mischief; which the interest of the moment may compel, but which
is reprobated by the best principles of humanity and reason. It
is the practice of both sides to accuse their enemies of the
guilt of the first alliances; and those who fail in their
negotiations are loudest in their censure of the example which
they envy and would gladly imitate. The Turks of Asia were less
barbarous perhaps than the shepherds of Bulgaria and Servia; but
their religion rendered them implacable foes of Rome and
Christianity. To acquire the friendship of their emirs, the two
factions vied with each other in baseness and profusion: the
dexterity of Cantacuzene obtained the preference: but the succor
and victory were dearly purchased by the marriage of his daughter
with an infidel, the captivity of many thousand Christians, and
the passage of the Ottomans into Europe, the last and fatal
stroke in the fall of the Roman empire. The inclining scale was
decided in his favor by the death of Apocaucus, the just though
singular retribution of his crimes. A crowd of nobles or
plebeians, whom he feared or hated, had been seized by his orders
in the capital and the provinces; and the old palace of
Constantine was assigned as the place of their confinement. Some
alterations in raising the walls, and narrowing the cells, had
been ingeniously contrived to prevent their escape, and aggravate
their misery; and the work was incessantly pressed by the daily
visits of the tyrant. His guards watched at the gate, and as he
stood in the inner court to overlook the architects, without fear
or suspicion, he was assaulted and laid breathless on the ground,
by two ^* resolute prisoners of the Pal&aelig;ologian race, ^30
who were armed with sticks, and animated by despair. On the rumor
of revenge and liberty, the captive multitude broke their
fetters, fortified their prison, and exposed from the battlements
the tyrant's head, presuming on the favor of the people and the
clemency of the empress. Anne of Savoy might rejoice in the fall
of a haughty and ambitious minister, but while she delayed to
resolve or to act, the populace, more especially the mariners,
were excited by the widow of the great duke to a sedition, an
assault, and a massacre. The prisoners (of whom the far greater
part were guiltless or inglorious of the deed) escaped to a
neighboring church: they were slaughtered at the foot of the
altar; and in his death the monster was not less bloody and
venomous than in his life. Yet his talents alone upheld the cause
of the young emperor; and his surviving associates, suspicious of
each other, abandoned the conduct of the war, and rejected the
fairest terms of accommodation. In the beginning of the dispute,
the empress felt, and complained, that she was deceived by the
enemies of Cantacuzene: the patriarch was employed to preach
against the forgiveness of injuries; and her promise of immortal
hatred was sealed by an oath, under the penalty of
excommunication. ^31 But Anne soon learned to hate without a
teacher: she beheld the misfortunes of the empire with the
indifference of a stranger: her jealousy was exasperated by the
competition of a rival empress; and on the first symptoms of a
more yielding temper, she threatened the patriarch to convene a
synod, and degrade him from his office. Their incapacity and
discord would have afforded the most decisive advantage; but the
civil war was protracted by the weakness of both parties; and the
moderation of Cantacuzene has not escaped the reproach of
timidity and indolence. He successively recovered the provinces
and cities; and the realm of his pupil was measured by the walls
of Constantinople; but the metropolis alone counterbalanced the
rest of the empire; nor could he attempt that important conquest
till he had secured in his favor the public voice and a private
correspondence. An Italian, of the name of Facciolati, ^32 had
succeeded to the office of great duke: the ships, the guards, and
the golden gate, were subject to his command; but his humble
ambition was bribed to become the instrument of treachery; and
the revolution was accomplished without danger or bloodshed.
Destitute of the powers of resistance, or the hope of relief, the
inflexible Anne would have still defended the palace, and have
smiled to behold the capital in flames, rather than in the
possession of a rival. She yielded to the prayers of her friends
and enemies; and the treaty was dictated by the conqueror, who
professed a loyal and zealous attachment to the son of his
benefactor. The marriage of his daughter with John
Pal&aelig;ologus was at length consummated: the hereditary right
of the pupil was acknowledged; but the sole administration during
ten years was vested in the guardian. Two emperors and three
empresses were seated on the Byzantine throne; and a general
amnesty quieted the apprehensions, and confirmed the property, of
the most guilty subjects. The festival of the coronation and
nuptials was celebrated with the appearances of concord and
magnificence, and both were equally fallacious. During the late
troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of
the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet
was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud
poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was
supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather.
^33</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Nicephorus says four, p.734.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: The two avengers were both Pal&aelig;ologi, who
might resent, with royal indignation, the shame of their chains.
The tragedy of Apocaucus may deserve a peculiar reference to
Cantacuzene (l. iii. c. 86) and Nic. Gregoras, (l. xiv. c.
10.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: Cantacuzene accuses the patriarch, and spares
the empress, the mother of his sovereign, (l. iii. 33, 34,)
against whom Nic. Gregoras expresses a particular animosity, (l.
xiv. 10, 11, xv. 5.) It is true that they do not speak exactly of
the same time.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: The traitor and treason are revealed by Nic.
Gregoras, (l. xv. c. 8;) but the name is more discreetly
suppressed by his great accomplice, (Cantacuzen. l. iii. c.
99.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: Nic. Greg. l. xv. 11. There were, however, some
true pearls, but very thinly sprinkled. The rest of the stones
had only pantodaphn croian proV to diaugeV.]</p>

<p>I hasten to conclude the personal history of John Cantacuzene.
^34 He triumphed and reigned; but his reign and triumph were
clouded by the discontent of his own and the adverse faction. His
followers might style the general amnesty an act of pardon for
his enemies, and of oblivion for his friends: ^35 in his cause
their estates had been forfeited or plundered; and as they
wandered naked and hungry through the streets, they cursed the
selfish generosity of a leader, who, on the throne of the empire,
might relinquish without merit his private inheritance. The
adherents of the empress blushed to hold their lives and fortunes
by the precarious favor of a usurper; and the thirst of revenge
was concealed by a tender concern for the succession, and even
the safety, of her son. They were justly alarmed by a petition of
the friends of Cantacuzene, that they might be released from
their oath of allegiance to the Pal&aelig;ologi, and intrusted
with the defence of some cautionary towns; a measure supported
with argument and eloquence; and which was rejected (says the
Imperial historian) "by <strong><em>my</em></strong> sublime, and
almost incredible virtue." His repose was disturbed by the sound
of plots and seditions; and he trembled lest the lawful prince
should be stolen away by some foreign or domestic enemy, who
would inscribe his name and his wrongs in the banners of
rebellion. As the son of Andronicus advanced in the years of
manhood, he began to feel and to act for himself; and his rising
ambition was rather stimulated than checked by the imitation of
his father's vices. If we may trust his own professions,
Cantacuzene labored with honest industry to correct these sordid
and sensual appetites, and to raise the mind of the young prince
to a level with his fortune. In the Servian expedition, the two
emperors showed themselves in cordial harmony to the troops and
provinces; and the younger colleague was initiated by the elder
in the mysteries of war and government. After the conclusion of
the peace, Pal&aelig;ologus was left at Thessalonica, a royal
residence, and a frontier station, to secure by his absence the
peace of Constantinople, and to withdraw his youth from the
temptations of a luxurious capital. But the distance weakened the
powers of control, and the son of Andronicus was surrounded with
artful or unthinking companions, who taught him to hate his
guardian, to deplore his exile, and to vindicate his rights. A
private treaty with the cral or despot of Servia was soon
followed by an open revolt; and Cantacuzene, on the throne of the
elder Andronicus, defended the cause of age and prerogative,
which in his youth he had so vigorously attacked. At his request
the empress-mother undertook the voyage of Thessalonica, and the
office of mediation: she returned without success; and unless
Anne of Savoy was instructed by adversity, we may doubt the
sincerity, or at least the fervor, of her zeal. While the regent
grasped the sceptre with a firm and vigorous hand, she had been
instructed to declare, that the ten years of his legal
administration would soon elapse; and that, after a full trial of
the vanity of the world, the emperor Cantacuzene sighed for the
repose of a cloister, and was ambitious only of a heavenly crown.
Had these sentiments been genuine, his voluntary abdication would
have restored the peace of the empire, and his conscience would
have been relieved by an act of justice. Pal&aelig;ologus alone
was responsible for his future government; and whatever might be
his vices, they were surely less formidable than the calamities
of a civil war, in which the Barbarians and infidels were again
invited to assist the Greeks in their mutual destruction. By the
arms of the Turks, who now struck a deep and everlasting root in
Europe, Cantacuzene prevailed in the third contest in which he
had been involved; and the young emperor, driven from the sea and
land, was compelled to take shelter among the Latins of the Isle
of Tenedos. His insolence and obstinacy provoked the victor to a
step which must render the quarrel irreconcilable; and the
association of his son Matthew, whom he invested with the purple,
established the succession in the family of the Cantacuzeni. But
Constantinople was still attached to the blood of her ancient
princes; and this last injury accelerated the restoration of the
rightful heir. A noble Genoese espoused the cause of
Pal&aelig;ologus, obtained a promise of his sister, and achieved
the revolution with two galleys and two thousand five hundred
auxiliaries. Under the pretence of distress, they were admitted
into the lesser port; a gate was opened, and the Latin shout of,
"Long life and victory to the emperor, John Pal&aelig;ologus!"
was answered by a general rising in his favor. A numerous and
loyal party yet adhered to the standard of Cantacuzene: but he
asserts in his history (does he hope for belief?) that his tender
conscience rejected the assurance of conquest; that, in free
obedience to the voice of religion and philosophy, he descended
from the throne and embraced with pleasure the monastic habit and
profession. ^36 So soon as he ceased to be a prince, his
successor was not unwilling that he should be a saint: the
remainder of his life was devoted to piety and learning; in the
cells of Constantinople and Mount Athos, the monk Joasaph was
respected as the temporal and spiritual father of the emperor;
and if he issued from his retreat, it was as the minister of
peace, to subdue the obstinacy, and solicit the pardon, of his
rebellious son. ^37</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: From his return to Constantinople, Cantacuzene
continues his history and that of the empire, one year beyond the
abdication of his son Matthew, A.D. 1357, (l. iv. c. l--50, p.
705--911.) Nicephorus Gregoras ends with the synod of
Constantinople, in the year 1351, (l. xxii. c. 3, p. 660; the
rest, to the conclusion of the xxivth book, p. 717, is all
controversy;) and his fourteen last books are still MSS. in the
king of France's library.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: The emperor (Cantacuzen. l. iv. c. 1) represents
his own virtues, and Nic. Gregoras (l. xv. c. 11) the complaints
of his friends, who suffered by its effects. I have lent them the
words of our poor cavaliers after the Restoration.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: The awkward apology of Cantacuzene, (l. iv. c.
39--42,) who relates, with visible confusion, his own downfall,
may be supplied by the less accurate, but more honest, narratives
of Matthew Villani (l. iv. c. 46, in the Script. Rerum Ital. tom.
xiv. p. 268) and Ducas, (c 10, 11.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: Cantacuzene, in the year 1375, was honored with
a letter from the pope, (Fleury, Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xx. p.
250.) His death is placed by a respectable authority on the 20th
of November, 1411, (Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 260.) But if he were
of the age of his companion Andronicus the Younger, he must have
lived 116 years; a rare instance of longevity, which in so
illustrious a person would have attracted universal notice.]</p>

<p>Yet in the cloister, the mind of Cantacuzene was still
exercised by theological war. He sharpened a controversial pen
against the Jews and Mahometans; ^38 and in every state he
defended with equal zeal the divine light of Mount Thabor, a
memorable question which consummates the religious follies of the
Greeks. The fakirs of India, ^39 and the monks of the Oriental
church, were alike persuaded, that in the total abstraction of
the faculties of the mind and body, the purer spirit may ascend
to the enjoyment and vision of the Deity. The opinion and
practice of the monasteries of Mount Athos ^40 will be best
represented in the words of an abbot, who flourished in the
eleventh century. "When thou art alone in thy cell," says the
ascetic teacher, "shut thy door, and seat thyself in a corner:
raise thy mind above all things vain and transitory; recline thy
beard and chin on thy breast; turn thy eyes and thy thoughts
toward the middle of thy belly, the region of the navel; and
search the place of the heart, the seat of the soul. At first,
all will be dark and comfortless; but if you persevere day and
night, you will feel an ineffable joy; and no sooner has the soul
discovered the place of the heart, than it is involved in a
mystic and ethereal light." This light, the production of a
distempered fancy, the creature of an empty stomach and an empty
brain, was adored by the Quietists as the pure and perfect
essence of God himself; and as long as the folly was confined to
Mount Athos, the simple solitaries were not inquisitive how the
divine essence could be a <strong><em>material</em></strong>
substance, or how an <strong><em>immaterial</em></strong>
substance could be perceived by the eyes of the body. But in the
reign of the younger Andronicus, these monasteries were visited
by Barlaam, ^41 a Calabrian monk, who was equally skilled in
philosophy and theology; who possessed the language of the Greeks
and Latins; and whose versatile genius could maintain their
opposite creeds, according to the interest of the moment. The
indiscretion of an ascetic revealed to the curious traveller the
secrets of mental prayer and Barlaam embraced the opportunity of
ridiculing the Quietists, who placed the soul in the navel; of
accusing the monks of Mount Athos of heresy and blasphemy. His
attack compelled the more learned to renounce or dissemble the
simple devotion of their brethren; and Gregory Palamas introduced
a scholastic distinction between the essence and operation of
God. His inaccessible essence dwells in the midst of an uncreated
and eternal light; and this beatific vision of the saints had
been manifested to the disciples on Mount Thabor, in the
transfiguration of Christ. Yet this distinction could not escape
the reproach of polytheism; the eternity of the light of Thabor
was fiercely denied; and Barlaam still charged the Palamites with
holding two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.
From the rage of the monks of Mount Athos, who threatened his
life, the Calabrian retired to Constantinople, where his smooth
and specious manners introduced him to the favor of the great
domestic and the emperor. The court and the city were involved in
this theological dispute, which flamed amidst the civil war; but
the doctrine of Barlaam was disgraced by his flight and apostasy:
the Palamites triumphed; and their adversary, the patriarch John
of Apri, was deposed by the consent of the adverse factions of
the state. In the character of emperor and theologian,
Cantacuzene presided in the synod of the Greek church, which
established, as an article of faith, the uncreated light of Mount
Thabor; and, after so many insults, the reason of mankind was
slightly wounded by the addition of a single absurdity. Many
rolls of paper or parchment have been blotted; and the impenitent
sectaries, who refused to subscribe the orthodox creed, were
deprived of the honors of Christian burial; but in the next age
the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the
fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.
^42</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: His four discourses, or books, were printed at
Basil, 1543, (Fabric Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 473.) He
composed them to satisfy a proselyte who was assaulted with
letters from his friends of Ispahan. Cantacuzene had read the
Koran; but I understand from Maracci that he adopts the vulgar
prejudices and fables against Mahomet and his religion.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: See the Voyage de Bernier, tom. i. p. 127.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. p. 522,
523. Fleury, Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xx. p. 22, 24, 107--114,
&amp;c. The former unfolds the causes with the judgment of a
philosopher, the latter transcribes and transcribes and
translates with the prejudices of a Catholic priest.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Basnage (in Canisii Antiq. Lectiones, tom. iv.
p. 363--368) has investigated the character and story of Barlaam.
The duplicity of his opinions had inspired some doubts of the
identity of his person. See likewise Fabricius, (Bibliot.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 427--432.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: See Cantacuzene (l. ii. c. 39, 40, l. iv. c. 3,
23, 24, 25) and Nic. Gregoras, (l. xi. c. 10, l. xv. 3, 7,
&amp;c.,) whose last books, from the xixth to xxivth, are almost
confined to a subject so interesting to the authors. Boivin, (in
Vit. Nic. Gregor&aelig;,) from the unpublished books, and
Fabricius, (Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 462--473,) or rather
Montfaucon, from the MSS. of the Coislin library, have added some
facts and documents.]</p>

<p>For the conclusion of this chapter, I have reserved the
Genoese war, which shook the throne of Cantacuzene, and betrayed
the debility of the Greek empire. The Genoese, who, after the
recovery of Constantinople, were seated in the suburb of Pera or
Galata, received that honorable fief from the bounty of the
emperor. They were indulged in the use of their laws and
magistrates; but they submitted to the duties of vassals and
subjects; the forcible word of
<strong><em>liegemen</em></strong>^43 was borrowed from the Latin
jurisprudence; and their <strong><em>podesta</em></strong>, or
chief, before he entered on his office, saluted the emperor with
loyal acclamations and vows of fidelity. Genoa sealed a firm
alliance with the Greeks; and, in case of a defensive war, a
supply of fifty empty galleys and a succor of fifty galleys,
completely armed and manned, was promised by the republic to the
empire. In the revival of a naval force, it was the aim of
Michael Pal&aelig;ologus to deliver himself from a foreign aid;
and his vigorous government contained the Genoese of Galata
within those limits which the insolence of wealth and freedom
provoked them to exceed. A sailor threatened that they should
soon be masters of Constantinople, and slew the Greek who
resented this national affront; and an armed vessel, after
refusing to salute the palace, was guilty of some acts of piracy
in the Black Sea. Their countrymen threatened to support their
cause; but the long and open village of Galata was instantly
surrounded by the Imperial troops; till, in the moment of the
assault, the prostrate Genoese implored the clemency of their
sovereign. The defenceless situation which secured their
obedience exposed them to the attack of their Venetian rivals,
who, in the reign of the elder Andronicus, presumed to violate
the majesty of the throne. On the approach of their fleets, the
Genoese, with their families and effects, retired into the city:
their empty habitations were reduced to ashes; and the feeble
prince, who had viewed the destruction of his suburb, expressed
his resentment, not by arms, but by ambassadors. This misfortune,
however, was advantageous to the Genoese, who obtained, and
imperceptibly abused, the dangerous license of surrounding Galata
with a strong wall; of introducing into the ditch the waters of
the sea; of erecting lofty turrets; and of mounting a train of
military engines on the rampart. The narrow bounds in which they
had been circumscribed were insufficient for the growing colony;
each day they acquired some addition of landed property; and the
adjacent hills were covered with their villas and castles, which
they joined and protected by new fortifications. ^44 The
navigation and trade of the Euxine was the patrimony of the Greek
emperors, who commanded the narrow entrance, the gates, as it
were, of that inland sea. In the reign of Michael
Pal&aelig;ologus, their prerogative was acknowledged by the
sultan of Egypt, who solicited and obtained the liberty of
sending an annual ship for the purchase of slaves in Circassia
and the Lesser Tartary: a liberty pregnant with mischief to the
Christian cause; since these youths were transformed by education
and discipline into the formidable Mamalukes. ^45 From the colony
of Pera, the Genoese engaged with superior advantage in the
lucrative trade of the Black Sea; and their industry supplied the
Greeks with fish and corn; two articles of food almost equally
important to a superstitious people. The spontaneous bounty of
nature appears to have bestowed the harvests of Ukraine, the
produce of a rude and savage husbandry; and the endless
exportation of salt fish and caviare is annually renewed by the
enormous sturgeons that are caught at the mouth of the Don or
Tanais, in their last station of the rich mud and shallow water
of the M&aelig;otis. ^46 The waters of the Oxus, the Caspian, the
Volga, and the Don, opened a rare and laborious passage for the
gems and spices of India; and after three months' march the
caravans of Carizme met the Italian vessels in the harbors of
Crim&aelig;a. ^47 These various branches of trade were
monopolized by the diligence and power of the Genoese. Their
rivals of Venice and Pisa were forcibly expelled; the natives
were awed by the castles and cities, which arose on the
foundations of their humble factories; and their principal
establishment of Caffa ^48 was besieged without effect by the
Tartar powers. Destitute of a navy, the Greeks were oppressed by
these haughty merchants, who fed, or famished, Constantinople,
according to their interest. They proceeded to usurp the customs,
the fishery, and even the toll, of the Bosphorus; and while they
derived from these objects a revenue of two hundred thousand
pieces of gold, a remnant of thirty thousand was reluctantly
allowed to the emperor. ^49 The colony of Pera or Galata acted,
in peace and war, as an independent state; and, as it will happen
in distant settlements, the Genoese podesta too often forgot that
he was the servant of his own masters.</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: Pachymer (l. v. c. 10) very properly explains
liziouV (<strong><em>ligios</em></strong>) by ?lidiouV. The use
of these words in the Greek and Latin of the feudal times may be
amply understood from the Glossaries of Ducange, (Gr&aelig;c. p.
811, 812. Latin. tom. iv. p. 109--111.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: The establishment and progress of the Genoese at
Pera, or Galata, is described by Ducange (C. P. Christiana, l. i.
p. 68, 69) from the Byzantine historians, Pachymer, (l. ii. c.
35, l. v. 10, 30, l. ix. 15 l. xii. 6, 9,) Nicephorus Gregoras,
(l. v. c. 4, l. vi. c. 11, l. ix. c. 5, l. ix. c. 1, l. xv. c. 1,
6,) and Cantacuzene, (l. i. c. 12, l. ii. c. 29, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: Both Pachymer (l. iii. c. 3, 4, 5) and Nic.
Greg. (l. iv. c. 7) understand and deplore the effects of this
dangerous indulgence. Bibars, sultan of Egypt, himself a Tartar,
but a devout Mussulman, obtained from the children of Zingis the
permission to build a stately mosque in the capital of Crimea,
(De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iii. p. 343.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Chardin (Voyages en Perse, tom. i. p. 48) was
assured at Caffa, that these fishes were sometimes twenty-four or
twenty-six feet long, weighed eight or nine hundred pounds, and
yielded three or four quintals of caviare. The corn of the
Bosphorus had supplied the Athenians in the time of
Demosthenes.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iii. p. 343,
344. Viaggi di Ramusio, tom. i. fol. 400. But this land or water
carriage could only be practicable when Tartary was united under
a wise and powerful monarch.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: Nic. Gregoras (l. xiii. c. 12) is judicious and
well informed on the trade and colonies of the Black Sea. Chardin
describes the present ruins of Caffa, where, in forty days, he
saw above 400 sail employed in the corn and fish trade, (Voyages
en Perse, tom. i. p. 46--48.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: See Nic. Gregoras, l. xvii. c. 1.]</p>

<p>These usurpations were encouraged by the weakness of the elder
Andronicus, and by the civil wars that afflicted his age and the
minority of his grandson. The talents of Cantacuzene were
employed to the ruin, rather than the restoration, of the empire;
and after his domestic victory, he was condemned to an
ignominious trial, whether the Greeks or the Genoese should reign
in Constantinople. The merchants of Pera were offended by his
refusal of some contiguous land, some commanding heights, which
they proposed to cover with new fortifications; and in the
absence of the emperor, who was detained at Demotica by sickness,
they ventured to brave the debility of a female reign. A
Byzantine vessel, which had presumed to fish at the mouth of the
harbor, was sunk by these audacious strangers; the fishermen were
murdered. Instead of suing for pardon, the Genoese demanded
satisfaction; required, in a haughty strain, that the Greeks
should renounce the exercise of navigation; and encountered with
regular arms the first sallies of the popular indignation. They
instantly occupied the debatable land; and by the labor of a
whole people, of either sex and of every age, the wall was
raised, and the ditch was sunk, with incredible speed. At the
same time, they attacked and burnt two Byzantine galleys; while
the three others, the remainder of the Imperial navy, escaped
from their hands: the habitations without the gates, or along the
shore, were pillaged and destroyed; and the care of the regent,
of the empress Irene, was confined to the preservation of the
city. The return of Cantacuzene dispelled the public
consternation: the emperor inclined to peaceful counsels; but he
yielded to the obstinacy of his enemies, who rejected all
reasonable terms, and to the ardor of his subjects, who
threatened, in the style of Scripture, to break them in pieces
like a potter's vessel. Yet they reluctantly paid the taxes, that
he imposed for the construction of ships, and the expenses of the
war; and as the two nations were masters, the one of the land,
the other of the sea, Constantinople and Pera were pressed by the
evils of a mutual siege. The merchants of the colony, who had
believed that a few days would terminate the war, already
murmured at their losses: the succors from their mother-country
were delayed by the factions of Genoa; and the most cautious
embraced the opportunity of a Rhodian vessel to remove their
families and effects from the scene of hostility. In the spring,
the Byzantine fleet, seven galleys and a train of smaller
vessels, issued from the mouth of the harbor, and steered in a
single line along the shore of Pera; unskilfully presenting their
sides to the beaks of the adverse squadron. The crews were
composed of peasants and mechanics; nor was their ignorance
compensated by the native courage of Barbarians: the wind was
strong, the waves were rough; and no sooner did the Greeks
perceive a distant and inactive enemy, than they leaped headlong
into the sea, from a doubtful, to an inevitable peril. The troops
that marched to the attack of the lines of Pera were struck at
the same moment with a similar panic; and the Genoese were
astonished, and almost ashamed, at their double victory. Their
triumphant vessels, crowned with flowers, and dragging after them
the captive galleys, repeatedly passed and repassed before the
palace: the only virtue of the emperor was patience; and the hope
of revenge his sole consolation. Yet the distress of both parties
interposed a temporary agreement; and the shame of the empire was
disguised by a thin veil of dignity and power. Summoning the
chiefs of the colony, Cantacuzene affected to despise the trivial
object of the debate; and, after a mild reproof, most liberally
granted the lands, which had been previously resigned to the
seeming custody of his officers. ^50</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The events of this war are related by
Cantacuzene (l. iv. c. 11 with obscurity and confusion, and by
Nic. Gregoras (l. xvii. c. 1--7) in a clear and honest narrative.
The priest was less responsible than the prince for the defeat of
the fleet.]</p>

<p>But the emperor was soon solicited to violate the treaty, and
to join his arms with the Venetians, the perpetual enemies of
Genoa and her colonies. While he compared the reasons of peace
and war, his moderation was provoked by a wanton insult of the
inhabitants of Pera, who discharged from their rampart a large
stone that fell in the midst of Constantinople. On his just
complaint, they coldly blamed the imprudence of their engineer;
but the next day the insult was repeated; and they exulted in a
second proof that the royal city was not beyond the reach of
their artillery. Cantacuzene instantly signed his treaty with the
Venetians; but the weight of the Roman empire was scarcely felt
in the balance of these opulent and powerful republics. ^51 From
the Straits of Gibraltar to the mouth of the Tanais, their fleets
encountered each other with various success; and a memorable
battle was fought in the narrow sea, under the walls of
Constantinople. It would not be an easy task to reconcile the
accounts of the Greeks, the Venetians, and the Genoese; ^52 and
while I depend on the narrative of an impartial historian, ^53 I
shall borrow from each nation the facts that redound to their own
disgrace, and the honor of their foes. The Venetians, with their
allies the Catalans, had the advantage of number; and their
fleet, with the poor addition of eight Byzantine galleys,
amounted to seventy-five sail: the Genoese did not exceed
sixty-four; but in those times their ships of war were
distinguished by the superiority of their size and strength. The
names and families of their naval commanders, Pisani and Doria,
are illustrious in the annals of their country; but the personal
merit of the former was eclipsed by the fame and abilities of his
rival. They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary
conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light.
The enemies of the Genoese applaud their prowess; the friends of
the Venetians are dissatisfied with their behavior; but all
parties agree in praising the skill and boldness of the Catalans,
^* who, with many wounds, sustained the brunt of the action. On
the separation of the fleets, the event might appear doubtful;
but the thirteen Genoese galleys, that had been sunk or taken,
were compensated by a double loss of the allies; of fourteen
Venetians, ten Catalans, and two Greeks; ^! and even the grief of
the conquerors expressed the assurance and habit of more decisive
victories. Pisani confessed his defeat, by retiring into a
fortified harbor, from whence, under the pretext of the orders of
the senate, he steered with a broken and flying squadron for the
Isle of Candia, and abandoned to his rivals the sovereignty of
the sea. In a public epistle, ^54 addressed to the doge and
senate, Petrarch employs his eloquence to reconcile the maritime
powers, the two luminaries of Italy. The orator celebrates the
valor and victory of the Genoese, the first of men in the
exercise of naval war: he drops a tear on the misfortunes of
their Venetian brethren; but he exhorts them to pursue with fire
and sword the base and perfidious Greeks; to purge the metropolis
of the East from the heresy with which it was infected. Deserted
by their friends, the Greeks were incapable of resistance; and
three months after the battle, the emperor Cantacuzene solicited
and subscribed a treaty, which forever banished the Venetians and
Catalans, and granted to the Genoese a monopoly of trade, and
almost a right of dominion. The Roman empire (I smile in
transcribing the name) might soon have sunk into a province of
Genoa, if the ambition of the republic had not been checked by
the ruin of her freedom and naval power. A long contest of one
hundred and thirty years was determined by the triumph of Venice;
and the factions of the Genoese compelled them to seek for
domestic peace under the protection of a foreign lord, the duke
of Milan, or the French king. Yet the spirit of commerce survived
that of conquest; and the colony of Pera still awed the capital
and navigated the Euxine, till it was involved by the Turks in
the final servitude of Constantinople itself.</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: The second war is darkly told by Cantacuzene,
(l. iv. c. 18, p. 24, 25, 28--32,) who wishes to disguise what he
dares not deny. I regret this part of Nic. Gregoras, which is
still in MS. at Paris. *</p>

<p>Note: * This part of Nicephorus Gregoras has not been printed
in the new edition of the Byzantine Historians. The editor
expresses a hope that it may be undertaken by Hase. I should join
in the regret of Gibbon, if these books contain any historical
information: if they are but a continuation of the controversies
which fill the last books in our present copies, they may as well
sleep their eternal sleep in MS. as in print. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Muratori (Annali d' Italia, tom. xii. p. 144)
refers to the most ancient Chronicles of Venice (Caresinus, the
continuator of Andrew Dandulus, tom. xii. p. 421, 422) and Genoa,
(George Stella Annales Genuenses, tom. xvii. p. 1091, 1092;) both
which I have diligently consulted in his great Collection of the
Historians of Italy.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: See the Chronicle of Matteo Villani of Florence,
l. ii. c. 59, p. 145--147, c. 74, 75, p. 156, 157, in Muratori's
Collection, tom. xiv.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Cantacuzene praises their bravery, but imputes
their losses to their ignorance of the seas: they suffered more
by the breakers than by the enemy, vol. iii. p. 224. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Cantacuzene says that the Genoese lost
twenty-eight ships with their crews, autandroi; the Venetians and
Catalans sixteen, the Imperials, none Cantacuzene accuses Pisani
of cowardice, in not following up the victory, and destroying the
Genoese. But Pisani's conduct, and indeed Cantacuzene's account
of the battle, betray the superiority of the Genoese. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: The Abb&eacute; de Sade (M&eacute;moires sur la
Vie de Petrarque, tom. iii. p. 257--263) translates this letter,
which he copied from a MS. in the king of France's library.
Though a servant of the duke of Milan, Petrarch pours forth his
astonishment and grief at the defeat and despair of the Genoese
in the following year, (p. 323--332.)]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXIV: Moguls, Ottoman Turks.</strong>
<strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Conquests Of Zingis Khan And The Moguls From China To Poland.
-- Escape Of Constantinople And The Greeks. -- Origin Of The
Ottoman Turks In Bithynia. -- Reigns And Victories Of Othman,
Orchan, Amurath The First, And Bajazet The First. -- Foundation
And Progress Of The Turkish Monarchy In Asia And Europe. --
Danger Of Constantinople And The Greek Empire.</p>

<p>From the petty quarrels of a city and her suburbs, from the
cowardice and discord of the falling Greeks, I shall now ascend
to the victorious Turks; whose domestic slavery was ennobled by
martial discipline, religious enthusiasm, and the energy of the
national character. The rise and progress of the Ottomans, the
present sovereigns of Constantinople, are connected with the most
important scenes of modern history; but they are founded on a
previous knowledge of the great eruption of the Moguls ^* and
Tartars; whose rapid conquests may be compared with the primitive
convulsions of nature, which have agitated and altered the
surface of the globe. I have long since asserted my claim to
introduce the nations, the immediate or remote authors of the
fall of the Roman empire; nor can I refuse myself to those
events, which, from their uncommon magnitude, will interest a
philosophic mind in the history of blood. ^1</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Mongol seems to approach the nearest to the
proper name of this race. The Chinese call them Mong-kou; the
Mondchoux, their neighbors, Monggo or Monggou. They called
themselves also Beda. This fact seems to have been proved by M.
Schmidt against the French Orientalists. See De Brosset. Note on
Le Beau, tom. xxii p. 402.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: The reader is invited to review chapters xxii. to
xxvi., and xxiii. to xxxviii., the manners of pastoral nations,
the conquests of Attila and the Huns, which were composed at a
time when I entertained the wish, rather than the hope, of
concluding my history.]</p>

<p>From the spacious highlands between China, Siberia, and the
Caspian Sea, the tide of emigration and war has repeatedly been
poured. These ancient seats of the Huns and Turks were occupied
in the twelfth century by many pastoral tribes, of the same
descent and similar manners, which were united and led to
conquest by the formidable Zingis. ^* In his ascent to greatness,
that Barbarian (whose private appellation was Temugin) had
trampled on the necks of his equals. His birth was noble; but it
was the pride of victory, that the prince or people deduced his
seventh ancestor from the immaculate conception of a virgin. His
father had reigned over thirteen hordes, which composed about
thirty or forty thousand families: above two thirds refused to
pay tithes or obedience to his infant son; and at the age of
thirteen, Temugin fought a battle against his rebellious
subjects. The future conqueror of Asia was reduced to fly and to
obey; but he rose superior to his fortune, and in his fortieth
year he had established his fame and dominion over the
circumjacent tribes. In a state of society, in which policy is
rude and valor is universal, the ascendant of one man must be
founded on his power and resolution to punish his enemies and
recompense his friends. His first military league was ratified by
the simple rites of sacrificing a horse and tasting of a running
stream: Temugin pledged himself to divide with his followers the
sweets and the bitters of life; and when he had shared among them
his horses and apparel, he was rich in their gratitude and his
own hopes. After his first victory, he placed seventy caldrons on
the fire, and seventy of the most guilty rebels were cast
headlong into the boiling water. The sphere of his attraction was
continually enlarged by the ruin of the proud and the submission
of the prudent; and the boldest chieftains might tremble, when
they beheld, enchased in silver, the skull of the khan of
Keraites; ^2 who, under the name of Prester John, had
corresponded with the Roman pontiff and the princes of Europe.
The ambition of Temugin condescended to employ the arts of
superstition; and it was from a naked prophet, who could ascend
to heaven on a white horse, that he accepted the title of Zingis,
^3 the <strong><em>most great</em></strong>; and a divine right
to the conquest and dominion of the earth. In a general
<strong><em>couroultai</em></strong>, or diet, he was seated on a
felt, which was long afterwards revered as a relic, and solemnly
proclaimed great khan, or emperor of the Moguls ^4 and Tartars.
^5 Of these kindred, though rival, names, the former had given
birth to the imperial race; and the latter has been extended by
accident or error over the spacious wilderness of the north.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: On the traditions of the early life of Zingis,
see D'Ohson, Hist des Mongols; Histoire des Mongols, Paris, 1824.
Schmidt, Geschichte des Ost-Mongolen, p. 66, &amp;c., and Notes.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: The khans of the Keraites were most probably
incapable of reading the pompous epistles composed in their name
by the Nestorian missionaries, who endowed them with the fabulous
wonders of an Indian kingdom. Perhaps these Tartars (the
Presbyter or Priest John) had submitted to the rites of baptism
and ordination, (Asseman, Bibliot Orient tom. iii. p. ii. p.
487--503.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Since the history and tragedy of Voltaire,
Gengis, at least in French, seems to be the more fashionable
spelling; but Abulghazi Khan must have known the true name of his
ancestor. His etymology appears just:
<strong><em>Zin</em></strong>, in the Mogul tongue, signifies
<strong><em>great</em></strong>, and
<strong><em>gis</em></strong> is the superlative termination,
(Hist. G&eacute;n&eacute;alogique des Tatars, part iii. p. 194,
195.) From the same idea of magnitude, the appellation of
<strong><em>Zingis</em></strong> is bestowed on the ocean.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: The name of Moguls has prevailed among the
Orientals, and still adheres to the titular sovereign, the Great
Mogul of Hindastan. *</p>

<p>Note: * M. Remusat (sur les Langues Tartares, p. 233) justly
observes, that Timour was a Turk, not a Mogul, and, p. 242, that
probably there was not Mogul in the army of Baber, who
established the Indian throne of the "Great Mogul." -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: The Tartars (more properly Tatars) were descended
from Tatar Khan, the brother of Mogul Khan, (see Abulghazi, part
i. and ii.,) and once formed a horde of 70,000 families on the
borders of Kitay, (p. 103--112.) In the great invasion of Europe
(A.D. 1238) they seem to have led the vanguard; and the
similitude of the name of <strong><em>Tartarei</em></strong>,
recommended that of Tartars to the Latins, (Matt. Paris, p. 398,
&amp;c.)</p>

<p>Note: This relationship, according to M. Klaproth, is
fabulous, and invented by the Mahometan writers, who, from
religious zeal, endeavored to connect the traditions of the
nomads of Central Asia with those of the Old Testament, as
preserved in the Koran. There is no trace of it in the Chinese
writers. Tabl. de l'Asie, p. 156. -- M.]</p>

<p>The code of laws which Zingis dictated to his subjects was
adapted to the preservation of a domestic peace, and the exercise
of foreign hostility. The punishment of death was inflicted on
the crimes of adultery, murder, perjury, and the capital thefts
of a horse or ox; and the fiercest of men were mild and just in
their intercourse with each other. The future election of the
great khan was vested in the princes of his family and the heads
of the tribes; and the regulations of the chase were essential to
the pleasures and plenty of a Tartar camp. The victorious nation
was held sacred from all servile labors, which were abandoned to
slaves and strangers; and every labor was servile except the
profession of arms. The service and discipline of the troops, who
were armed with bows, cimeters, and iron maces, and divided by
hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands, were the institutions of
a veteran commander. Each officer and soldier was made
responsible, under pain of death, for the safety and honor of his
companions; and the spirit of conquest breathed in the law, that
peace should never be granted unless to a vanquished and
suppliant enemy. But it is the religion of Zingis that best
deserves our wonder and applause. ^* The Catholic inquisitors of
Europe, who defended nonsense by cruelty, might have been
confounded by the example of a Barbarian, who anticipated the
lessons of philosophy, ^6 and established by his laws a system of
pure theism and perfect toleration. His first and only article of
faith was the existence of one God, the Author of all good; who
fills by his presence the heavens and earth, which he has created
by his power. The Tartars and Moguls were addicted to the idols
of their peculiar tribes; and many of them had been converted by
the foreign missionaries to the religions of Moses, of Mahomet,
and of Christ. These various systems in freedom and concord were
taught and practised within the precincts of the same camp; and
the Bonze, the Imam, the Rabbi, the Nestorian, and the Latin
priest, enjoyed the same honorable exemption from service and
tribute: in the mosque of Bochara, the insolent victor might
trample the Koran under his horse's feet, but the calm legislator
respected the prophets and pontiffs of the most hostile sects.
The reason of Zingis was not informed by books: the khan could
neither read nor write; and, except the tribe of the Igours, the
greatest part of the Moguls and Tartars were as illiterate as
their sovereign. ^* The memory of their exploits was preserved by
tradition: sixty-eight years after the death of Zingis, these
traditions were collected and transcribed; ^7 the brevity of
their domestic annals may be supplied by the Chinese, ^8
Persians, ^9 Armenians, ^10 Syrians, ^11 Arabians, ^12 Greeks,
^13 Russians, ^14 Poles, ^15 Hungarians, ^16 and Latins; ^17 and
each nation will deserve credit in the relation of their own
disasters and defeats. ^18</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Before his armies entered Thibet, he sent an
embassy to Bogdosottnam-Dsimmo, a Lama high priest, with a letter
to this effect: "I have chosen thee as high priest for myself and
my empire. Repair then to me, and promote the present and future
happiness of man: I will be thy supporter and protector: let us
establish a system of religion, and unite it with the monarchy,"
&amp;c. The high priest accepted the invitation; and the Mongol
history literally terms this step the <strong><em>period of the
first respect for religion</em></strong>; because the monarch, by
his public profession, made it the religion of the state.
Klaproth. "Travels in Caucasus," ch. 7, Eng. Trans. p. 92.
Neither Dshingis nor his son and successor Oegodah had, on
account of their continual wars, much leisure for the propagation
of the religion of the Lama. By religion they understand a
distinct, independent, sacred moral code, which has but one
origin, one source, and one object. This notion they universally
propagate, and even believe that the brutes, and all created
beings, have a religion adapted to their sphere of action. The
different forms of the various religions they ascribe to the
difference of individuals, nations, and legislators. Never do you
hear of their inveighing against any creed, even against the
obviously absurd Schaman paganism, or of their persecuting others
on that account. They themselves, on the other hand, endure every
hardship, and even persecutions, with perfect resignation, and
indulgently excuse the follies of others, nay, consider them as a
motive for increased ardor in prayer, ch. ix. p. 109. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: A singular conformity may be found between the
religious laws of Zingis Khan and of Mr. Locke, (Constitutions of
Carolina, in his works, vol. iv. p. 535, 4to. edition,
1777.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See the notice on Tha-tha-toung-o, the Ouogour
minister of Tchingis, in Abel Remusat's 2d series of Recherch.
Asiat. vol. ii. p. 61. He taught the son of Tchingis to write:
"He was the instructor of the Moguls in writing, of which they
were before ignorant;" and hence the application of the Ouigour
characters to the Mogul language cannot be placed earlier than
the year 1204 or 1205, nor so late as the time of
P&agrave;-sse-pa, who lived under Khubilai. A new alphabet,
approaching to that of Thibet, was introduced under Khubilai. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: In the year 1294, by the command of Cazan, khan
of Persia, the fourth in descent from Zingis. From these
traditions, his vizier Fadlallah composed a Mogul history in the
Persian language, which has been used by Petit de la Croix,
(Hist. de Genghizcan, p. 537--539.) The Histoire
G&eacute;n&eacute;alogique des Tatars (&agrave; Leyde, 1726, in
12mo., 2 tomes) was translated by the Swedish prisoners in
Siberia from the Mogul MS. of Abulgasi Bahadur Khan, a descendant
of Zingis, who reigned over the Usbeks of Charasm, or Carizme,
(A.D. 1644--1663.) He is of most value and credit for the names,
pedigrees, and manners of his nation. Of his nine parts, the ist
descends from Adam to Mogul Khan; the iid, from Mogul to Zingis;
the iiid is the life of Zingis; the ivth, vth, vith, and viith,
the general history of his four sons and their posterity; the
viiith and ixth, the particular history of the descendants of
Sheibani Khan, who reigned in Maurenahar and Charasm.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: Histoire de Gentchiscan, et de toute la Dinastie
des Mongous ses Successeurs, Conquerans de la Chine; tir&eacute;e
de l'Histoire de la Chine par le R. P. Gaubil, de la
Soci&eacute;t&eacute; de Jesus, Missionaire &agrave; Peking;
&agrave; Paris, 1739, in 4to. This translation is stamped with
the Chinese character of domestic accuracy and foreign
ignorance.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: See the Histoire du Grand Genghizcan, premier
Empereur des Moguls et Tartares, par M. Petit de la Croix,
&agrave; Paris, 1710, in 12mo.; a work of ten years' labor,
chiefly drawn from the Persian writers, among whom Nisavi, the
secretary of Sultan Gelaleddin, has the merit and prejudices of a
contemporary. A slight air of romance is the fault of the
originals, or the compiler. See likewise the articles of
<strong><em>Genghizcan</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Mohammed</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Gelaleddin</em></strong>, &amp;c., in the
Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale of D'Herbelot.</p>

<p>Note: The preface to the Hist. des Mongols, (Paris, 1824)
gives a catalogue of the Arabic and Persian authorities. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: Haithonus, or Aithonus, an Armenian prince, and
afterwards a monk of Premontr&eacute;, (Fabric, Bibliot. Lat.
Medii &AElig;vi, tom. i. p. 34,) dictated in the French language,
his book <strong><em>de Tartaris</em></strong>, his old
fellow-soldiers. It was immediately translated into Latin, and is
inserted in the Novus Orbis of Simon Gryn&aelig;us, (Basil, 1555,
in folio.) *</p>

<p>Note: * A pr&eacute;cis at the end of the new edition of Le
Beau, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. xvii., by M. Brosset, gives large
extracts from the accounts of the Armenian historians relating to
the Mogul conquests. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Zingis Khan, and his first successors, occupy
the conclusion of the ixth Dynasty of Abulpharagius, (vers.
Pocock, Oxon. 1663, in 4to.;) and his xth Dynasty is that of the
Moguls of Persia. Assemannus (Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii.) has
extracted some facts from his Syriac writings, and the lives of
the Jacobite maphrians, or primates of the East.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: Among the Arabians, in language and religion, we
may distinguish Abulfeda, sultan of Hamah in Syria, who fought in
person, under the Mamaluke standard, against the Moguls.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: Nicephorus Gregoras (l. ii. c. 5, 6) has felt
the necessity of connecting the Scythian and Byzantine histories.
He describes with truth and elegance the settlement and manners
of the Moguls of Persia, but he is ignorant of their origin, and
corrupts the names of Zingis and his sons.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: M. Levesque (Histoire de Russie, tom. ii.) has
described the conquest of Russia by the Tartars, from the
patriarch Nicon, and the old chronicles.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: For Poland, I am content with the Sarmatia
Asiatica et Europ&aelig;a of Matthew &agrave; Michou, or De
Michovi&acirc;, a canon and physician of Cracow, (A.D. 1506,)
inserted in the Novus Orbis of Gryn&aelig;us. Fabric Bibliot.
Latin. Medi&aelig; et Infim&aelig; &AElig;tatis, tom. v. p.
56.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: I should quote Thuroczius, the oldest general
historian (pars ii. c. 74, p. 150) in the 1st volume of the
Scriptores Rerum Hungaricarum, did not the same volume contain
the original narrative of a contemporary, an eye-witness, and a
sufferer, (M. Rogerii, Hungari, Varadiensis Capituli Canonici,
Carmen miserabile, seu Historia super Destructione Regni
Hungari&aelig; Temporibus Bel&aelig; IV. Regis per Tartaros
facta, p. 292--321;) the best picture that I have ever seen of
all the circumstances of a Barbaric invasion.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: Matthew Paris has represented, from authentic
documents, the danger and distress of Europe, (consult the word
<strong><em>Tartari</em></strong> in his copious Index.) From
motives of zeal and curiosity, the court of the great khan in the
xiiith century was visited by two friars, John de Plano Carpini,
and William Rubruquis, and by Marco Polo, a Venetian gentleman.
The Latin relations of the two former are inserted in the 1st
volume of Hackluyt; the Italian original or version of the third
(Fabric. Bibliot. Latin. Medii &AElig;vi, tom. ii. p. 198, tom.
v. p. 25) may be found in the second tome of Ramusio.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: In his great History of the Huns, M. de Guignes
has most amply treated of Zingis Khan and his successors. See
tom. iii. l. xv.--xix., and in the collateral articles of the
Seljukians of Roum, tom. ii. l. xi., the Carizmians, l. xiv., and
the Mamalukes, tom. iv. l. xxi.; consult likewise the tables of
the 1st volume. He is ever learned and accurate; yet I am only
indebted to him for a general view, and some passages of
Abulfeda, which are still latent in the Arabic text. *</p>

<p>Note: * To this catalogue of the historians of the Moguls may
be added D'Ohson, Histoire des Mongols; Histoire des Mongols,
(from Arabic and Persian authorities,) Paris, 1824. Schmidt,
Geschichte der Ost Mongolen, St. Petersburgh, 1829. This curious
work, by Ssanang Ssetsen Chungtaidschi, published in the original
Mongol, was written after the conversion of the nation to
Buddhism: it is enriched with very valuable notes by the editor
and translator; but, unfortunately, is very barren of information
about the European and even the western Asiatic conquests of the
Mongols. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIV: Moguls, Ottoman Turks. -- Part
II.</em></strong></p>

<p>The arms of Zingis and his lieutenants successively reduced
the hordes of the desert, who pitched their tents between the
wall of China and the Volga; and the Mogul emperor became the
monarch of the pastoral world, the lord of many millions of
shepherds and soldiers, who felt their united strength, and were
impatient to rush on the mild and wealthy climates of the south.
His ancestors had been the tributaries of the Chinese emperors;
and Temugin himself had been disgraced by a title of honor and
servitude. The court of Pekin was astonished by an embassy from
its former vassal, who, in the tone of the king of nations,
exacted the tribute and obedience which he had paid, and who
affected to treat the <strong><em>son of heaven</em></strong> as
the most contemptible of mankind. A haughty answer disguised
their secret apprehensions; and their fears were soon justified
by the march of innumerable squadrons, who pierced on all sides
the feeble rampart of the great wall. Ninety cities were stormed,
or starved, by the Moguls; ten only escaped; and Zingis, from a
knowledge of the filial piety of the Chinese, covered his
vanguard with their captive parents; an unworthy, and by degrees
a fruitless, abuse of the virtue of his enemies. His invasion was
supported by the revolt of a hundred thousand Khitans, who
guarded the frontier: yet he listened to a treaty; and a princess
of China, three thousand horses, five hundred youths, and as many
virgins, and a tribute of gold and silk, were the price of his
retreat. In his second expedition, he compelled the Chinese
emperor to retire beyond the yellow river to a more southern
residence. The siege of Pekin ^19 was long and laborious: the
inhabitants were reduced by famine to decimate and devour their
fellow-citizens; when their ammunition was spent, they discharged
ingots of gold and silver from their engines; but the Moguls
introduced a mine to the centre of the capital; and the
conflagration of the palace burnt above thirty days. China was
desolated by Tartar war and domestic faction; and the five
northern provinces were added to the empire of Zingis.</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: More properly
<strong><em>Yen-king</em></strong>, an ancient city, whose ruins
still appear some furlongs to the south-east of the modern
<strong><em>Pekin</em></strong>, which was built by Cublai Khan,
(Gaubel, p. 146.) Pe-king and Nan-king are vague titles, the
courts of the north and of the south. The identity and change of
names perplex the most skilful readers of the Chinese geography,
(p. 177.) *</p>

<p>Note: * And likewise in Chinese history -- see Abel Remusat,
Mel. Asiat. 2d tom. ii. p. 5. -- M.]</p>

<p>In the West, he touched the dominions of Mohammed, sultan of
Carizme, who reigned from the Persian Gulf to the borders of
India and Turkestan; and who, in the proud imitation of Alexander
the Great, forgot the servitude and ingratitude of his fathers to
the house of Seljuk. It was the wish of Zingis to establish a
friendly and commercial intercourse with the most powerful of the
Moslem princes: nor could he be tempted by the secret
solicitations of the caliph of Bagdad, who sacrificed to his
personal wrongs the safety of the church and state. A rash and
inhuman deed provoked and justified the Tartar arms in the
invasion of the southern Asia. ^! A caravan of three ambassadors
and one hundred and fifty merchants were arrested and murdered at
Otrar, by the command of Mohammed; nor was it till after a demand
and denial of justice, till he had prayed and fasted three nights
on a mountain, that the Mogul emperor appealed to the judgment of
God and his sword. Our European battles, says a philosophic
writer, ^20 are petty skirmishes, if compared to the numbers that
have fought and fallen in the fields of Asia. Seven hundred
thousand Moguls and Tartars are said to have marched under the
standard of Zingis and his four sons. In the vast plains that
extend to the north of the Sihon or Jaxartes, they were
encountered by four hundred thousand soldiers of the sultan; and
in the first battle, which was suspended by the night, one
hundred and sixty thousand Carizmians were slain. Mohammed was
astonished by the multitude and valor of his enemies: he withdrew
from the scene of danger, and distributed his troops in the
frontier towns; trusting that the Barbarians, invincible in the
field, would be repulsed by the length and difficulty of so many
regular sieges. But the prudence of Zingis had formed a body of
Chinese engineers, skilled in the mechanic arts; informed perhaps
of the secret of gunpowder, and capable, under his discipline, of
attacking a foreign country with more vigor and success than they
had defended their own. The Persian historians will relate the
sieges and reduction of Otrar, Cogende, Bochara, Samarcand,
Carizme, Herat, Merou, Nisabour, Balch, and Candahar; and the
conquest of the rich and populous countries of Transoxiana,
Carizme, and Chorazan. ^* The destructive hostilities of Attila
and the Huns have long since been elucidated by the example of
Zingis and the Moguls; and in this more proper place I shall be
content to observe, that, from the Caspian to the Indus, they
ruined a tract of many hundred miles, which was adorned with the
habitations and labors of mankind, and that five centuries have
not been sufficient to repair the ravages of four years. The
Mogul emperor encouraged or indulged the fury of his troops: the
hope of future possession was lost in the ardor of rapine and
slaughter; and the cause of the war exasperated their native
fierceness by the pretence of justice and revenge. The downfall
and death of the sultan Mohammed, who expired, unpitied and
alone, in a desert island of the Caspian Sea, is a poor atonement
for the calamities of which he was the author. Could the
Carizmian empire have been saved by a single hero, it would have
been saved by his son Gelaleddin, whose active valor repeatedly
checked the Moguls in the career of victory. Retreating, as he
fought, to the banks of the Indus, he was oppressed by their
innumerable host, till, in the last moment of despair, Gelaleddin
spurred his horse into the waves, swam one of the broadest and
most rapid rivers of Asia, and extorted the admiration and
applause of Zingis himself. It was in this camp that the Mogul
conqueror yielded with reluctance to the murmurs of his weary and
wealthy troops, who sighed for the enjoyment of their native
land. Eucumbered with the spoils of Asia, he slowly measured back
his footsteps, betrayed some pity for the misery of the
vanquished, and declared his intention of rebuilding the cities
which had been swept away by the tempest of his arms. After he
had repassed the Oxus and Jaxartes, he was joined by two
generals, whom he had detached with thirty thousand horse, to
subdue the western provinces of Persia. They had trampled on the
nations which opposed their passage, penetrated through the gates
of Derbent, traversed the Volga and the desert, and accomplished
the circuit of the Caspian Sea, by an expedition which had never
been attempted, and has never been repeated. The return of Zingis
was signalized by the overthrow of the rebellious or independent
kingdoms of Tartary; and he died in the fulness of years and
glory, with his last breath exhorting and instructing his sons to
achieve the conquest of the Chinese empire. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote !: See the particular account of this transaction,
from the Kholauesut el Akbaur, in Price, vol. ii. p. 402. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: M. de Voltaire, Essai sur l'Histoire
G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, tom. iii. c. 60, p. 8. His account of
Zingis and the Moguls contains, as usual, much general sense and
truth, with some particular errors.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Every where they massacred all classes, except
the artisans, whom they made slaves. Hist. des Mongols. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Their first duty, which he bequeathed to them,
was to massacre the king of Tangcoute and all the inhabitants of
Ninhia, the surrender of the city being already agreed upon,
Hist. des Mongols. vol. i. p. 286. -- M.]</p>

<p>The harem of Zingis was composed of five hundred wives and
concubines; and of his numerous progeny, four sons, illustrious
by their birth and merit, exercised under their father the
principal offices of peace and war. Toushi was his great
huntsman, Zagatai ^21 his judge, Octai his minister, and Tuli his
general; and their names and actions are often conspicuous in the
history of his conquests. Firmly united for their own and the
public interest, the three brothers and their families were
content with dependent sceptres; and Octai, by general consent,
was proclaimed great khan, or emperor of the Moguls and Tartars.
He was succeeded by his son Gayuk, after whose death the empire
devolved to his cousins Mangou and Cublai, the sons of Tuli, and
the grandsons of Zingis. In the sixty-eight years of his four
first successors, the Mogul subdued almost all Asia, and a large
portion of Europe. Without confining myself to the order of time,
without expatiating on the detail of events, I shall present a
general picture of the progress of their arms; I. In the East;
II. In the South; III. In the West; and IV. In the North.</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: Zagatai gave his name to his dominions of
Maurenahar, or Transoxiana; and the Moguls of Hindostan, who
emigrated from that country, are styled Zagatais by the Persians.
This certain etymology, and the similar example of Uzbek, Nogai,
&amp;c., may warn us not absolutely to reject the derivations of
a national, from a personal, name.</p>

<p>Note: See a curious anecdote of Tschagatai. Hist. des Mongols,
p. 370. -- M.]</p>

<p>I. Before the invasion of Zingis, China was divided into two
empires or dynasties of the North and South; ^22 and the
difference of origin and interest was smoothed by a general
conformity of laws, language, and national manners. The Northern
empire, which had been dismembered by Zingis, was finally subdued
seven years after his death. After the loss of Pekin, the emperor
had fixed his residence at Kaifong, a city many leagues in
circumference, and which contained, according to the Chinese
annals, fourteen hundred thousand families of inhabitants and
fugitives. He escaped from thence with only seven horsemen, and
made his last stand in a third capital, till at length the
hopeless monarch, protesting his innocence and accusing his
fortune, ascended a funeral pile, and gave orders, that, as soon
as he had stabbed himself, the fire should be kindled by his
attendants. The dynasty of the <strong><em>Song</em></strong>,
the native and ancient sovereigns of the whole empire, survived
about forty-five years the fall of the Northern usurpers; and the
perfect conquest was reserved for the arms of Cublai. During this
interval, the Moguls were often diverted by foreign wars; and, if
the Chinese seldom dared to meet their victors in the field,
their passive courage presented and endless succession of cities
to storm and of millions to slaughter. In the attack and defence
of places, the engines of antiquity and the Greek fire were
alternately employed: the use of gunpowder in cannon and bombs
appears as a familiar practice; ^23 and the sieges were conducted
by the Mahometans and Franks, who had been liberally invited into
the service of Cublai. After passing the great river, the troops
and artillery were conveyed along a series of canals, till they
invested the royal residence of Hamcheu, or Quinsay, in the
country of silk, the most delicious climate of China. The
emperor, a defenceless youth, surrendered his person and sceptre;
and before he was sent in exile into Tartary, he struck nine
times the ground with his forehead, to adore in prayer or
thanksgiving the mercy of the great khan. Yet the war (it was now
styled a rebellion) was still maintained in the southern
provinces from Hamcheu to Canton; and the obstinate remnant of
independence and hostility was transported from the land to the
sea. But when the fleet of the <strong><em>Song</em></strong> was
surrounded and oppressed by a superior armament, their last
champion leaped into the waves with his infant emperor in his
arms. "It is more glorious," he cried, "to die a prince, than to
live a slave." A hundred thousand Chinese imitated his example;
and the whole empire, from Tonkin to the great wall, submitted to
the dominion of Cublai. His boundless ambition aspired to the
conquest of Japan: his fleet was twice shipwrecked; and the lives
of a hundred thousand Moguls and Chinese were sacrificed in the
fruitless expedition. But the circumjacent kingdoms, Corea,
Tonkin, Cochinchina, Pegu, Bengal, and Thibet, were reduced in
different degrees of tribute and obedience by the effort or
terror of his arms. He explored the Indian Ocean with a fleet of
a thousand ships: they sailed in sixty-eight days, most probably
to the Isle of Borneo, under the equinoctial line; and though
they returned not without spoil or glory, the emperor was
dissatisfied that the savage king had escaped from their
hands.</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: In Marco Polo, and the Oriental geographers, the
names of Cathay and Mangi distinguish the northern and southern
empires, which, from A.D. 1234 to 1279, were those of the great
khan, and of the Chinese. The search of Cathay, after China had
been found, excited and misled our navigators of the sixteenth
century, in their attempts to discover the north-east
passage.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: I depend on the knowledge and fidelity of the
P&egrave;re Gaubil, who translates the Chinese text of the annals
of the Moguls or Yuen, (p. 71, 93, 153;) but I am ignorant at
what time these annals were composed and published. The two
uncles of Marco Polo, who served as engineers at the siege of
Siengyangfou, * (l. ii. 61, in Ramusio, tom. ii. See Gaubil, p.
155, 157) must have felt and related the effects of this
destructive powder, and their silence is a weighty, and almost
decisive objection. I entertain a suspicion, that their recent
discovery was carried from Europe to China by the caravans of the
xvth century and falsely adopted as an old national discovery
before the arrival of the Portuguese and Jesuits in the xvith.
Yet the P&egrave;re Gaubil affirms, that the use of gunpowder has
been known to the Chinese above 1600 years. **</p>

<p>Note: * Sou-houng-kian-lou. Abel Remusat. -- M.</p>

<p>Note: ** La poudre &agrave; canon et d'autres compositions
inflammantes, dont ils se servent pour construire des
pi&egrave;ces d'artifice d'un effet suprenant, leur
&eacute;taient connues depuis tr&egrave;s long-temps, et l'on
croit que des bombardes et des pierriers, dont ils avaient
enseign&eacute; l'usage aux Tartares, ont pu donner en Europe
l'id&eacute;e d'artillerie, quoique la forme des fusils et des
canons dont ils se servent actuellement, leur ait
&eacute;t&eacute; apport&eacute;e par les Francs, ainsi que
l'attestent les noms m&ecirc;mes qu'ils donnent &agrave; ces
sortes d'armes. Abel Remusat, M&eacute;langes Asiat. 2d ser. tom.
i. p. 23. -- M.]</p>

<p>II. The conquest of Hindostan by the Moguls was reserved in a
later period for the house of Timour; but that of Iran, or
Persia, was achieved by Holagou Khan, ^* the grandson of Zingis,
the brother and lieutenant of the two successive emperors, Mangou
and Cublai. I shall not enumerate the crowd of sultans, emirs,
and atabeks, whom he trampled into dust; but the extirpation of
the <strong><em>Assassins</em></strong>, or Ismaelians ^24 of
Persia, may be considered as a service to mankind. Among the
hills to the south of the Caspian, these odious sectaries had
reigned with impunity above a hundred and sixty years; and their
prince, or Imam, established his lieutenant to lead and govern
the colony of Mount Libanus, so famous and formidable in the
history of the crusades. ^25 With the fanaticism of the Koran the
Ismaelians had blended the Indian transmigration, and the visions
of their own prophets; and it was their first duty to devote
their souls and bodies in blind obedience to the vicar of God.
The daggers of his missionaries were felt both in the East and
West: the Christians and the Moslems enumerate, and persons
multiply, the illustrious victims that were sacrificed to the
zeal, avarice, or resentment of <strong><em>the old
man</em></strong> (as he was corruptly styled) <strong><em>of the
mountain</em></strong>. But these daggers, his only arms, were
broken by the sword of Holagou, and not a vestige is left of the
enemies of mankind, except the word
<strong><em>assassin</em></strong>, which, in the most odious
sense, has been adopted in the languages of Europe. The
extinction of the Abbassides cannot be indifferent to the
spectators of their greatness and decline. Since the fall of
their Seljukian tyrants the caliphs had recovered their lawful
dominion of Bagdad and the Arabian Irak; but the city was
distracted by theological factions, and the commander of the
faithful was lost in a harem of seven hundred concubines. The
invasion of the Moguls he encountered with feeble arms and
haughty embassies. "On the divine decree," said the caliph
Mostasem, "is founded the throne of the sons of Abbas: and their
foes shall surely be destroyed in this world and in the next. Who
is this Holagou that dares to rise against them? If he be
desirous of peace, let him instantly depart from the sacred
territory; and perhaps he may obtain from our clemency the pardon
of his fault." This presumption was cherished by a perfidious
vizier, who assured his master, that, even if the Barbarians had
entered the city, the women and children, from the terraces,
would be sufficient to overwhelm them with stones. But when
Holagou touched the phantom, it instantly vanished into smoke.
After a siege of two months, Bagdad was stormed and sacked by the
Moguls; ^* and their savage commander pronounced the death of the
caliph Mostasem, the last of the temporal successors of Mahomet;
whose noble kinsmen, of the race of Abbas, had reigned in Asia
above five hundred years. Whatever might be the designs of the
conqueror, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina ^26 were protected
by the Arabian desert; but the Moguls spread beyond the Tigris
and Euphrates, pillaged Aleppo and Damascus, and threatened to
join the Franks in the deliverance of Jerusalem. Egypt was lost,
had she been defended only by her feeble offspring; but the
Mamalukes had breathed in their infancy the keenness of a
Scythian air: equal in valor, superior in discipline, they met
the Moguls in many a well-fought field; and drove back the stream
of hostility to the eastward of the Euphrates. ^! But it
overflowed with resistless violence the kingdoms of Armenia ^!!
and Anatolia, of which the former was possessed by the
Christians, and the latter by the Turks. The sultans of Iconium
opposed some resistance to the Mogul arms, till Azzadin sought a
refuge among the Greeks of Constantinople, and his feeble
successors, the last of the Seljukian dynasty, were finally
extirpated by the khans of Persia. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See the curious account of the expedition of
Holagou, translated from the Chinese, by M. Abel Remusat,
M&eacute;langes Asiat. 2d ser. tom. i. p. 171. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: All that can be known of the Assassins of Persia
and Syria is poured from the copious, and even profuse, erudition
of M. Falconet, in two <strong><em>M&eacute;moires</em></strong>
read before the Academy of Inscriptions, (tom. xvii. p.
127--170.)</p>

<p>Note: Von Hammer's History of the Assassins has now thrown
Falconet's Dissertation into the shade. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: The Ismaelians of Syria, 40,000 Assassins, had
acquired or founded ten castles in the hills above Tortosa. About
the year 1280, they were extirpated by the Mamalukes.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Compare Von Hammer, Geschichte der Assassinen, p.
283, 307. Wilken, Geschichte der Kreuzz&uuml;ge, vol. vii. p.
406. Price, Chronological Retrospect, vol. ii. p. 217--223. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: As a proof of the ignorance of the Chinese in
foreign transactions, I must observe, that some of their
historians extend the conquest of Zingis himself to Medina, the
country of Mahomet, (Gaubil p. 42.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Compare Wilken, vol. vii. p. 410. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: On the friendly relations of the Armenians with
the Mongols see Wilken, Geschichte der Kreuzz&uuml;ge, vol. vii.
p. 402. They eagerly desired an alliance against the Mahometan
powers. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Trebizond escaped, apparently by the dexterous
politics of the sovereign, but it acknowledged the Mogul
supremacy. Falmerayer, p. 172. -- M.]</p>

<p>III. No sooner had Octai subverted the northern empire of
China, than he resolved to visit with his arms the most remote
countries of the West. Fifteen hundred thousand Moguls and
Tartars were inscribed on the military roll: of these the great
khan selected a third, which he intrusted to the command of his
nephew Batou, the son of Tuli; who reigned over his father's
conquests to the north of the Caspian Sea. ^! After a festival of
forty days, Batou set forwards on this great expedition; and such
was the speed and ardor of his innumerable squadrons, than in
less than six years they had measured a line of ninety degrees of
longitude, a fourth part of the circumference of the globe. The
great rivers of Asia and Europe, the Volga and Kama, the Don and
Borysthenes, the Vistula and Danube, they either swam with their
horses or passed on the ice, or traversed in leathern boats,
which followed the camp, and transported their wagons and
artillery. By the first victories of Batou, the remains of
national freedom were eradicated in the immense plains of
Turkestan and Kipzak. ^27 In his rapid progress, he overran the
kingdoms, as they are now styled, of Astracan and Cazan; and the
troops which he detached towards Mount Caucasus explored the most
secret recesses of Georgia and Circassia. The civil discord of
the great dukes, or princes, of Russia, betrayed their country to
the Tartars. They spread from Livonia to the Black Sea, and both
Moscow and Kiow, the modern and the ancient capitals, were
reduced to ashes; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and
perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years
has imprinted on the character of the Russians. The Tartars
ravaged with equal fury the countries which they hoped to
possess, and those which they were hastening to leave. From the
permanent conquest of Russia they made a deadly, though
transient, inroad into the heart of Poland, and as far as the
borders of Germany. The cities of Lublin and Cracow were
obliterated: ^* they approached the shores of the Baltic; and in
the battle of Lignitz they defeated the dukes of Silesia, the
Polish palatines, and the great master of the Teutonic order, and
filled nine sacks with the right ears of the slain. From Lignitz,
the extreme point of their western march, they turned aside to
the invasion of Hungary; and the presence or spirit of Batou
inspired the host of five hundred thousand men: the Carpathian
hills could not be long impervious to their divided columns; and
their approach had been fondly disbelieved till it was
irresistibly felt. The king, Bela the Fourth, assembled the
military force of his counts and bishops; but he had alienated
the nation by adopting a vagrant horde of forty thousand families
of Comans, and these savage guests were provoked to revolt by the
suspicion of treachery and the murder of their prince. The whole
country north of the Danube was lost in a day, and depopulated in
a summer; and the ruins of cities and churches were overspread
with the bones of the natives, who expiated the sins of their
Turkish ancestors. An ecclesiastic, who fled from the sack of
Waradin, describes the calamities which he had seen, or suffered;
and the sanguinary rage of sieges and battles is far less
atrocious than the treatment of the fugitives, who had been
allured from the woods under a promise of peace and pardon and
who were coolly slaughtered as soon as they had performed the
labors of the harvest and vintage. In the winter the Tartars
passed the Danube on the ice, and advanced to Gran or Strigonium,
a German colony, and the metropolis of the kingdom. Thirty
engines were planted against the walls; the ditches were filled
with sacks of earth and dead bodies; and after a promiscuous
massacre, three hundred noble matrons were slain in the presence
of the khan. Of all the cities and fortresses of Hungary, three
alone survived the Tartar invasion, and the unfortunate Bata hid
his head among the islands of the Adriatic.</p>

<p>[Footnote !: See the curious extracts from the Mahometan
writers, Hist. des Mongols, p. 707. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: The <strong><em>Dasht&eacute;
Kipzak</em></strong>, or plain of Kipzak, extends on either side
of the Volga, in a boundless space towards the Jaik and
Borysthenes, and is supposed to contain the primitive name and
nation of the Cossacks.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Olmutz was gallantly and successfully defended by
Stenberg, Hist. des Mongols, p. 396. -- M.]</p>

<p>The Latin world was darkened by this cloud of savage
hostility: a Russian fugitive carried the alarm to Sweden; and
the remote nations of the Baltic and the ocean trembled at the
approach of the Tartars, ^28 whom their fear and ignorance were
inclined to separate from the human species. Since the invasion
of the Arabs in the eighth century, Europe had never been exposed
to a similar calamity: and if the disciples of Mahomet would have
oppressed her religion and liberty, it might be apprehended that
the shepherds of Scythia would extinguish her cities, her arts,
and all the institutions of civil society. The Roman pontiff
attempted to appease and convert these invincible Pagans by a
mission of Franciscan and Dominican friars; but he was astonished
by the reply of the khan, that the sons of God and of Zingis were
invested with a divine power to subdue or extirpate the nations;
and that the pope would be involved in the universal destruction,
unless he visited in person, and as a suppliant, the royal horde.
The emperor Frederic the Second embraced a more generous mode of
defence; and his letters to the kings of France and England, and
the princes of Germany, represented the common danger, and urged
them to arm their vassals in this just and rational crusade. ^29
The Tartars themselves were awed by the fame and valor of the
Franks; the town of Newstadt in Austria was bravely defended
against them by fifty knights and twenty crossbows; and they
raised the siege on the appearance of a German army. After
wasting the adjacent kingdoms of Servia, Bosnia, and Bulgaria,
Batou slowly retreated from the Danube to the Volga to enjoyed
the rewards of victory in the city and palace of Serai, which
started at his command from the midst of the desert. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: In the year 1238, the inhabitants of Gothia
(<strong><em>Sweden</em></strong>) and Frise were prevented, by
their fear of the Tartars, from sending, as usual, their ships to
the herring fishery on the coast of England; and as there was no
exportation, forty or fifty of these fish were sold for a
shilling, (Matthew Paris, p. 396.) It is whimsical enough, that
the orders of a Mogul khan, who reigned on the borders of China,
should have lowered the price of herrings in the English
market.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: I shall copy his characteristic or flattering
epithets of the different countries of Europe: Furens ac fervens
ad arma Germania, strenu&aelig; militi&aelig; genitrix et alumna
Francia, bellicosa et audax Hispania, virtuosa viris et classe
munita fertilis Anglia, impetuosis bellatoribus referta
Alemannia, navalis Dacia, indomita Italia, pacis ignara
Burgundia, inquieta Apulia, cum maris Gr&aelig;ci, Adriatici et
Tyrrheni insulis pyraticis et invictis, Cret&acirc;, Cypro,
Sicili&acirc;, cum Oceano conterterminis insulis, et regionibus,
cruenta Hybernia, cum agili Wallia palustris Scotia, glacialis
Norwegia, suam electam militiam sub vexillo Crucis destinabunt,
&amp;c. (Matthew Paris, p. 498.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: He was recalled by the death of Octai. -- M.]</p>

<p>IV. Even the poor and frozen regions of the north attracted
the arms of the Moguls: Sheibani khan, the brother of the great
Batou, led a horde of fifteen thousand families into the wilds of
Siberia; and his descendants reigned at Tobolskoi above three
centuries, till the Russian conquest. The spirit of enterprise
which pursued the course of the Oby and Yenisei must have led to
the discovery of the icy sea. After brushing away the monstrous
fables, of men with dogs' heads and cloven feet, we shall find,
that, fifteen years after the death of Zingis, the Moguls were
informed of the name and manners of the Samoyedes in the
neighborhood of the polar circle, who dwelt in subterraneous
huts, and derived their furs and their food from the sole
occupation of hunting. ^30</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: See Carpin's relation in Hackluyt, vol. i. p.
30. The pedigree of the khans of Siberia is given by Abulghazi,
(part viii. p. 485--495.) Have the Russians found no Tartar
chronicles at Tobolskoi? *</p>

<p>Note: * See the account of the Mongol library in Bergman,
Nomadische Streifereyen, vol. iii. p. 185, 205, and Remusat,
Hist. des Langues Tartares, p. 327, and preface to Schmidt,
Geschichte der Ost-Mongolen. -- M.]</p>

<p>While China, Syria, and Poland, were invaded at the same time
by the Moguls and Tartars, the authors of the mighty mischief
were content with the knowledge and declaration, that their word
was the sword of death. Like the first caliphs, the first
successors of Zingis seldom appeared in person at the head of
their victorious armies. On the banks of the Onon and Selinga,
the royal or <strong><em>golden horde</em></strong> exhibited the
contrast of simplicity and greatness; of the roasted sheep and
mare's milk which composed their banquets; and of a distribution
in one day of five hundred wagons of gold and silver. The
ambassadors and princes of Europe and Asia were compelled to
undertake this distant and laborious pilgrimage; and the life and
reign of the great dukes of Russia, the kings of Georgia and
Armenia, the sultans of Iconium, and the emirs of Persia, were
decided by the frown or smile of the great khan. The sons and
grandsons of Zingis had been accustomed to the pastoral life; but
the village of Caracorum ^31 was gradually ennobled by their
election and residence. A change of manners is implied in the
removal of Octai and Mangou from a tent to a house; and their
example was imitated by the princes of their family and the great
officers of the empire. Instead of the boundless forest, the
enclosure of a park afforded the more indolent pleasures of the
chase; their new habitations were decorated with painting and
sculpture; their superfluous treasures were cast in fountains,
and basins, and statues of massy silver; and the artists of China
and Paris vied with each other in the service of the great khan.
^32 Caracorum contained two streets, the one of Chinese
mechanics, the other of Mahometan traders; and the places of
religious worship, one Nestorian church, two mosques, and twelve
temples of various idols, may represent in some degree the number
and division of inhabitants. Yet a French missionary declares,
that the town of St. Denys, near Paris, was more considerable
than the Tartar capital; and that the whole palace of Mangou was
scarcely equal to a tenth part of that Benedictine abbey. The
conquests of Russia and Syria might amuse the vanity of the great
khans; but they were seated on the borders of China; the
acquisition of that empire was the nearest and most interesting
object; and they might learn from their pastoral economy, that it
is for the advantage of the shepherd to protect and propagate his
flock. I have already celebrated the wisdom and virtue of a
Mandarin who prevented the desolation of five populous and
cultivated provinces. In a spotless administration of thirty
years, this friend of his country and of mankind continually
labored to mitigate, or suspend, the havoc of war; to save the
monuments, and to rekindle the flame, of science; to restrain the
military commander by the restoration of civil magistrates; and
to instil the love of peace and justice into the minds of the
Moguls. He struggled with the barbarism of the first conquerors;
but his salutary lessons produced a rich harvest in the second
generation. ^* The northern, and by degrees the southern, empire
acquiesced in the government of Cublai, the lieutenant, and
afterwards the successor, of Mangou; and the nation was loyal to
a prince who had been educated in the manners of China. He
restored the forms of her venerable constitution; and the victors
submitted to the laws, the fashions, and even the prejudices, of
the vanquished people. This peaceful triumph, which has been more
than once repeated, may be ascribed, in a great measure, to the
numbers and servitude of the Chinese. The Mogul army was
dissolved in a vast and populous country; and their emperors
adopted with pleasure a political system, which gives to the
prince the solid substance of despotism, and leaves to the
subject the empty names of philosophy, freedom, and filial
obedience. ^* Under the reign of Cublai, letters and commerce,
peace and justice, were restored; the great canal, of five
hundred miles, was opened from Nankin to the capital: he fixed
his residence at Pekin; and displayed in his court the
magnificence of the greatest monarch of Asia. Yet this learned
prince declined from the pure and simple religion of his great
ancestor: he sacrificed to the idol Fo; and his blind attachment
to the lamas of Thibet and the bonzes of China ^33 provoked the
censure of the disciples of Confucius. His successors polluted
the palace with a crowd of eunuchs, physicians, and astrologers,
while thirteen millions of their subjects were consumed in the
provinces by famine. One hundred and forty years after the death
of Zingis, his degenerate race, the dynasty of the Yuen, was
expelled by a revolt of the native Chinese; and the Mogul
emperors were lost in the oblivion of the desert. Before this
revolution, they had forfeited their supremacy over the dependent
branches of their house, the khans of Kipzak and Russia, the
khans of Zagatai, or Transoxiana, and the khans of Iran or
Persia. By their distance and power, these royal lieutenants had
soon been released from the duties of obedience; and after the
death of Cublai, they scorned to accept a sceptre or a title from
his unworthy successors. According to their respective
situations, they maintained the simplicity of the pastoral life,
or assumed the luxury of the cities of Asia; but the princes and
their hordes were alike disposed for the reception of a foreign
worship. After some hesitation between the Gospel and the Koran,
they conformed to the religion of Mahomet; and while they adopted
for their brethren the Arabs and Persians, they renounced all
intercourse with the ancient Moguls, the idolaters of China.</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: The Map of D'Anville and the Chinese Itineraries
(De Guignes, tom. i. part ii. p. 57) seem to mark the position of
Holin, or Caracorum, about six hundred miles to the north-west of
Pekin. The distance between Selinginsky and Pekin is near 2000
Russian versts, between 1300 and 1400 English miles, (Bell's
Travels, vol. ii. p. 67.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: Rubruquis found at Caracorum his
<strong><em>countryman Guillaume Boucher, orfevre de
Paris</em></strong>, who had executed for the khan a silver tree
supported by four lions, and ejecting four different liquors.
Abulghazi (part iv. p. 366) mentions the painters of Kitay or
China.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See the interesting sketch of the life of this
minister (Yelin-Thsouthsai) in the second volume of the second
series of Recherches Asiatiques, par A Remusat, p. 64. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Compare Hist. des Mongols, p. 616. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: The attachment of the khans, and the hatred of
the mandarins, to the bonzes and lamas (Duhalde, Hist. de la
Chine, tom. i. p. 502, 503) seems to represent them as the
priests of the same god, of the Indian
<strong><em>Fo</em></strong>, whose worship prevails among the
sects of Hindostan Siam, Thibet, China, and Japan. But this
mysterious subject is still lost in a cloud, which the
researchers of our Asiatic Society may gradually dispel.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIV: Moguls, Ottoman Turks. -- Part
III.</em></strong></p>

<p>In this shipwreck of nations, some surprise may be excited by
the escape of the Roman empire, whose relics, at the time of the
Mogul invasion, were dismembered by the Greeks and Latins. Less
potent than Alexander, they were pressed, like the Macedonian,
both in Europe and Asia, by the shepherds of Scythia; and had the
Tartars undertaken the siege, Constantinople must have yielded to
the fate of Pekin, Samarcand, and Bagdad. The glorious and
voluntary retreat of Batou from the Danube was insulted by the
vain triumph of the Franks and Greeks; ^34 and in a second
expedition death surprised him in full march to attack the
capital of the C&aelig;sars. His brother Borga carried the Tartar
arms into Bulgaria and Thrace; but he was diverted from the
Byzantine war by a visit to Novogorod, in the fifty-seventh
degree of latitude, where he numbered the inhabitants and
regulated the tributes of Russia. The Mogul khan formed an
alliance with the Mamalukes against his brethren of Persia: three
hundred thousand horse penetrated through the gates of Derbend;
and the Greeks might rejoice in the first example of domestic
war. After the recovery of Constantinople, Michael
Pal&aelig;ologus, ^35 at a distance from his court and army, was
surprised and surrounded in a Thracian castle, by twenty thousand
Tartars. But the object of their march was a private interest:
they came to the deliverance of Azzadin, the Turkish sultan; and
were content with his person and the treasure of the emperor.
Their general Noga, whose name is perpetuated in the hordes of
Astracan, raised a formidable rebellion against Mengo Timour, the
third of the khans of Kipzak; obtained in marriage Maria, the
natural daughter of Pal&aelig;ologus; and guarded the dominions
of his friend and father. The subsequent invasions of a Scythian
cast were those of outlaws and fugitives: and some thousands of
Alani and Comans, who had been driven from their native seats,
were reclaimed from a vagrant life, and enlisted in the service
of the empire. Such was the influence in Europe of the invasion
of the Moguls. The first terror of their arms secured, rather
than disturbed, the peace of the Roman Asia. The sultan of
Iconium solicited a personal interview with John Vataces; and his
artful policy encouraged the Turks to defend their barrier
against the common enemy. ^36 That barrier indeed was soon
overthrown; and the servitude and ruin of the Seljukians exposed
the nakedness of the Greeks. The formidable Holagou threatened to
march to Constantinople at the head of four hundred thousand men;
and the groundless panic of the citizens of Nice will present an
image of the terror which he had inspired. The accident of a
procession, and the sound of a doleful litany, "From the fury of
the Tartars, good Lord, deliver us," had scattered the hasty
report of an assault and massacre. In the blind credulity of
fear, the streets of Nice were crowded with thousands of both
sexes, who knew not from what or to whom they fled; and some
hours elapsed before the firmness of the military officers could
relieve the city from this imaginary foe. But the ambition of
Holagou and his successors was fortunately diverted by the
conquest of Bagdad, and a long vicissitude of Syrian wars; their
hostility to the Moslems inclined them to unite with the Greeks
and Franks; ^37 and their generosity or contempt had offered the
kingdom of Anatolia as the reward of an Armenian vassal. The
fragments of the Seljukian monarchy were disputed by the emirs
who had occupied the cities or the mountains; but they all
confessed the supremacy of the khans of Persia; and he often
interposed his authority, and sometimes his arms, to check their
depredations, and to preserve the peace and balance of his
Turkish frontier. The death of Cazan, ^38 one of the greatest and
most accomplished princes of the house of Zingis, removed this
salutary control; and the decline of the Moguls gave a free scope
to the rise and progress of the Ottoman Empire. ^39</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: Some repulse of the Moguls in Hungary (Matthew
Paris, p. 545, 546) might propagate and color the report of the
union and victory of the kings of the Franks on the confines of
Bulgaria. Abulpharagius (Dynast. p. 310) after forty years,
beyond the Tigris, might be easily deceived.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: See Pachymer, l. iii. c. 25, and l. ix. c. 26,
27; and the false alarm at Nice, l. iii. c. 27. Nicephorus
Gregoras, l. iv. c. 6.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: G. Acropolita, p. 36, 37. Nic. Greg. l. ii. c.
6, l. iv. c. 5.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: Abulpharagius, who wrote in the year 1284,
declares that the Moguls, since the fabulous defeat of Batou, had
not attacked either the Franks or Greeks; and of this he is a
competent witness. Hayton likewise, the Armenian prince,
celebrates their friendship for himself and his nation.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: Pachymer gives a splendid character of Cazan
Khan, the rival of Cyrus and Alexander, (l. xii. c. 1.) In the
conclusion of his history (l. xiii. c. 36) he
<strong><em>hopes</em></strong> much from the arrival of 30,000
Tochars, or Tartars, who were ordered by the successor of Cazan
to restrain the Turks of Bithynia, A.D. 1308.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: The origin of the Ottoman dynasty is illustrated
by the critical learning of Mm. De Guignes (Hist. des Huns, tom.
iv. p. 329--337) and D'Anville, (Empire Turc, p. 14--22,) two
inhabitants of Paris, from whom the Orientals may learn the
history and geography of their own country. *</p>

<p>Note: * They may be still more enlightened by the Geschichte
des Osman Reiches, by M. von Hammer Purgstall of Vienna. --
M.]</p>

<p>After the retreat of Zingis, the sultan Gelaleddin of Carizme
had returned from India to the possession and defence of his
Persian kingdoms. In the space of eleven years, than hero fought
in person fourteen battles; and such was his activity, that he
led his cavalry in seventeen days from Teflis to Kerman, a march
of a thousand miles. Yet he was oppressed by the jealousy of the
Moslem princes, and the innumerable armies of the Moguls; and
after his last defeat, Gelaleddin perished ignobly in the
mountains of Curdistan. His death dissolved a veteran and
adventurous army, which included under the name of Carizmians or
Corasmins many Turkman hordes, that had attached themselves to
the sultan's fortune. The bolder and more powerful chiefs invaded
Syria, and violated the holy sepulchre of Jerusalem: the more
humble engaged in the service of Aladin, sultan of Iconium; and
among these were the obscure fathers of the Ottoman line. They
had formerly pitched their tents near the southern banks of the
Oxus, in the plains of Mahan and Nesa; and it is somewhat
remarkable, that the same spot should have produced the first
authors of the Parthian and Turkish empires. At the head, or in
the rear, of a Carizmian army, Soliman Shah was drowned in the
passage of the Euphrates: his son Orthogrul became the soldier
and subject of Aladin, and established at Surgut, on the banks of
the Sangar, a camp of four hundred families or tents, whom he
governed fifty-two years both in peace and war. He was the father
of Thaman, or Athman, whose Turkish name has been melted into the
appellation of the caliph Othman; and if we describe that
pastoral chief as a shepherd and a robber, we must separate from
those characters all idea of ignominy and baseness. Othman
possessed, and perhaps surpassed, the ordinary virtues of a
soldier; and the circumstances of time and place were propitious
to his independence and success. The Seljukian dynasty was no
more; and the distance and decline of the Mogul khans soon
enfranchised him from the control of a superior. He was situate
on the verge of the Greek empire: the Koran sanctified his
<strong><em>gazi</em></strong>, or holy war, against the
infidels; and their political errors unlocked the passes of Mount
Olympus, and invited him to descend into the plains of Bithynia.
Till the reign of Pal&aelig;ologus, these passes had been
vigilantly guarded by the militia of the country, who were repaid
by their own safety and an exemption from taxes. The emperor
abolished their privilege and assumed their office; but the
tribute was rigorously collected, the custody of the passes was
neglected, and the hardy mountaineers degenerated into a
trembling crowd of peasants without spirit or discipline. It was
on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year twelve hundred and
ninety-nine of the Christian &aelig;ra, that Othman first invaded
the territory of Nicomedia; ^40 and the singular accuracy of the
date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and
destructive growth of the monster. The annals of the twenty-seven
years of his reign would exhibit a repetition of the same
inroads; and his hereditary troops were multiplied in each
campaign by the accession of captives and volunteers. Instead of
retreating to the hills, he maintained the most useful and
defensive posts; fortified the towns and castles which he had
first pillaged; and renounced the pastoral life for the baths and
palaces of his infant capitals. But it was not till Othman was
oppressed by age and infirmities, that he received the welcome
news of the conquest of Prusa, which had been surrendered by
famine or treachery to the arms of his son Orchan. The glory of
Othman is chiefly founded on that of his descendants; but the
Turks have transcribed or composed a royal testament of his last
counsels of justice and moderation. ^41</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: See Pachymer, l. x. c. 25, 26, l. xiii. c. 33,
34, 36; and concerning the guard of the mountains, l. i. c. 3--6:
Nicephorus Gregoras, l. vii. c. l., and the first book of
Laonicus Chalcondyles, the Athenian.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: I am ignorant whether the Turks have any writers
older than Mahomet II., * nor can I reach beyond a meagre
chronicle (Annales Turcici ad Annum 1550) translated by John
Gaudier, and published by Leunclavius, (ad calcem Laonic.
Chalcond. p. 311--350,) with copious pandects, or commentaries.
The history of the Growth and Decay (A.D. 1300--1683) of the
Othman empire was translated into English from the Latin MS. of
Demetrius Cantemir, prince of Moldavia, (London, 1734, in folio.)
The author is guilty of strange blunders in Oriental history; but
he was conversant with the language, the annals, and institutions
of the Turks. Cantemir partly draws his materials from the
Synopsis of Saadi Effendi of Larissa, dedicated in the year 1696
to Sultan Mustapha, and a valuable abridgment of the original
historians. In one of the Ramblers, Dr. Johnson praises Knolles
(a General History of the Turks to the present Year. London,
1603) as the first of historians, unhappy only in the choice of
his subject. Yet I much doubt whether a partial and verbose
compilation from Latin writers, thirteen hundred folio pages of
speeches and battles, can either instruct or amuse an enlightened
age, which requires from the historian some tincture of
philosophy and criticism.</p>

<p>Note: * We could have wished that M. von Hammer had given a
more clear and distinct reply to this question of Gibbon. In a
note, vol. i. p. 630. M. von Hammer shows that they had not only
sheiks (religious writers) and learned lawyers, but poets and
authors on medicine. But the inquiry of Gibbon obviously refers
to historians. The oldest of their historical works, of which V.
Hammer makes use, is the "Tarichi Aaschik Paschasade," i. e. the
History of the Great Grandson of Aaschik Pasha, who was a dervis
and celebrated ascetic poet in the reign of Murad (Amurath) I.
Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet
II., but, he says, derived much information from the book of
Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was Imaum to Sultan Orchan,
(the second Ottoman king) and who related, from the lips of his
father, the circumstances of the earliest Ottoman history. This
book (having searched for it in vain for five-and-twenty years)
our author found at length in the Vatican. All the other Turkish
histories on his list, as indeed this, were
<strong><em>written</em></strong> during the reign of Mahomet II.
It does not appear whether any of the rest cite earlier
authorities of equal value with that claimed by the "Tarichi
Aaschik Paschasade." -- M. (in Quarterly Review, vol. xlix. p.
292.)]</p>

<p>From the conquest of Prusa, we may date the true &aelig;ra of
the Ottoman empire. The lives and possessions of the Christian
subjects were redeemed by a tribute or ransom of thirty thousand
crowns of gold; and the city, by the labors of Orchan, assumed
the aspect of a Mahometan capital; Prusa was decorated with a
mosque, a college, and a hospital, of royal foundation; the
Seljukian coin was changed for the name and impression of the new
dynasty: and the most skilful professors, of human and divine
knowledge, attracted the Persian and Arabian students from the
ancient schools of Oriental learning. The office of vizier was
instituted for Aladin, the brother of Orchan; ^* and a different
habit distinguished the citizens from the peasants, the Moslems
from the infidels. All the troops of Othman had consisted of
loose squadrons of Turkman cavalry; who served without pay and
fought without discipline: but a regular body of infantry was
first established and trained by the prudence of his son. A great
number of volunteers was enrolled with a small stipend, but with
the permission of living at home, unless they were summoned to
the field: their rude manners, and seditious temper, disposed
Orchan to educate his young captives as his soldiers and those of
the prophet; but the Turkish peasants were still allowed to mount
on horseback, and follow his standard, with the appellation and
the hopes of <strong><em>freebooters</em></strong>. ^! By these
arts he formed an army of twenty-five thousand Moslems: a train
of battering engines was framed for the use of sieges; and the
first successful experiment was made on the cities of Nice and
Nicomedia. Orchan granted a safe-conduct to all who were desirous
of departing with their families and effects; but the widows of
the slain were given in marriage to the conquerors; and the
sacrilegious plunder, the books, the vases, and the images, were
sold or ransomed at Constantinople. The emperor Andronicus the
Younger was vanquished and wounded by the son of Othman: ^42 ^!!
he subdued the whole province or kingdom of Bithynia, as far as
the shores of the Bosphorus and Hellespont; and the Christians
confessed the justice and clemency of a reign which claimed the
voluntary attachment of the Turks of Asia. Yet Orchan was content
with the modest title of emir; and in the list of his compeers,
the princes of Roum or Anatolia, ^43 his military forces were
surpassed by the emirs of Ghermian and Caramania, each of whom
could bring into the field an army of forty thousand men. Their
domains were situate in the heart of the Seljukian kingdom; but
the holy warriors, though of inferior note, who formed new
principalities on the Greek empire, are more conspicuous in the
light of history. The maritime country from the Propontis to the
M&aelig;ander and the Isle of Rhodes, so long threatened and so
often pillaged, was finally lost about the thirteenth year of
Andronicus the Elder. ^44 Two Turkish chieftains, Sarukhan and
Aidin, left their names to their conquests, and their conquests
to their posterity. The captivity or ruin of the
<strong><em>seven</em></strong> churches of Asia was consummated;
and the barbarous lords of Ionia and Lydia still trample on the
monuments of classic and Christian antiquity. In the loss of
Ephesus, the Christians deplored the fall of the first angel, the
extinction of the first candlestick, of the Revelations; ^45 the
desolation is complete; and the temple of Diana, or the church of
Mary, will equally elude the search of the curious traveller. The
circus and three stately theatres of Laodicea are now peopled
with wolves and foxes; Sardes is reduced to a miserable village;
the God of Mahomet, without a rival or a son, is invoked in the
mosques of Thyatira and Pergamus; and the populousness of Smyrna
is supported by the foreign trade of the Franks and Armenians.
Philadelphia alone has been saved by prophecy, or courage. At a
distance from the sea, forgotten by the emperors, encompassed on
all sides by the Turks, her valiant citizens defended their
religion and freedom above fourscore years; and at length
capitulated with the proudest of the Ottomans. Among the Greek
colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect; a
column in a scene of ruins; a pleasing example, that the paths of
honor and safety may sometimes be the same. The servitude of
Rhodes was delayed about two centuries by the establishment of
the knights of St. John of Jerusalem: ^46 under the discipline of
the order, that island emerged into fame and opulence; the noble
and warlike monks were renowned by land and sea: and the bulwark
of Christendom provoked, and repelled, the arms of the Turks and
Saracens.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Von Hammer, Osm. Geschichte, vol. i. p. 82. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Ibid. p. 91. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: Cantacuzene, though he relates the battle and
heroic flight of the younger Andronicus, (l. ii. c. 6, 7, 8,)
dissembles by his silence the loss of Prusa, Nice, and Nicomedia,
which are fairly confessed by Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. viii. 15,
ix. 9, 13, xi. 6.) It appears that Nice was taken by Orchan in
1330, and Nicomedia in 1339, which are somewhat different from
the Turkish dates.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: For the conquests of Orchan over the ten
pachaliks, or kingdoms of the Seljukians, in Asia Minor. see V.
Hammer, vol. i. p. 112. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: The partition of the Turkish emirs is extracted
from two contemporaries, the Greek Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii.
1) and the Arabian Marakeschi, (De Guignes, tom. ii. P. ii. p.
76, 77.) See likewise the first book of Laonicus
Chalcondyles.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: Pachymer, l. xiii. c. 13.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: See the Travels of Wheeler and Spon, of Pocock
and Chandler, and more particularly Smith's Survey of the Seven
Churches of Asia, p. 205--276. The more pious antiquaries labor
to reconcile the promises and threats of the author of the
Revelations with the <strong><em>present</em></strong> state of
the seven cities. Perhaps it would be more prudent to confine his
predictions to the characters and events of his own times.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Consult the ivth book of the Histoire de l'Ordre
de Malthe, par l'Abb&eacute; de Vertot. That pleasing writer
betrays his ignorance, in supposing that Othman, a freebooter of
the Bithynian hills, could besiege Rhodes by sea and land.]</p>

<p>The Greeks, by their intestine divisions, were the authors of
their final ruin. During the civil wars of the elder and younger
Andronicus, the son of Othman achieved, almost without
resistance, the conquest of Bithynia; and the same disorders
encouraged the Turkish emirs of Lydia and Ionia to build a fleet,
and to pillage the adjacent islands and the sea-coast of Europe.
In the defence of his life and honor, Cantacuzene was tempted to
prevent, or imitate, his adversaries, by calling to his aid the
public enemies of his religion and country. Amir, the son of
Aidin, concealed under a Turkish garb the humanity and politeness
of a Greek; he was united with the great domestic by mutual
esteem and reciprocal services; and their friendship is compared,
in the vain rhetoric of the times, to the perfect union of
Orestes and Pylades. ^47 On the report of the danger of his
friend, who was persecuted by an ungrateful court, the prince of
Ionia assembled at Smyrna a fleet of three hundred vessels, with
an army of twenty-nine thousand men; sailed in the depth of
winter, and cast anchor at the mouth of the Hebrus. From thence,
with a chosen band of two thousand Turks, he marched along the
banks of the river, and rescued the empress, who was besieged in
Demotica by the wild Bulgarians. At that disastrous moment, the
life or death of his beloved Cantacuzene was concealed by his
flight into Servia: but the grateful Irene, impatient to behold
her deliverer, invited him to enter the city, and accompanied her
message with a present of rich apparel and a hundred horses. By a
peculiar strain of delicacy, the Gentle Barbarian refused, in the
absence of an unfortunate friend, to visit his wife, or to taste
the luxuries of the palace; sustained in his tent the rigor of
the winter; and rejected the hospitable gift, that he might share
the hardships of two thousand companions, all as deserving as
himself of that honor and distinction. Necessity and revenge
might justify his predatory excursions by sea and land: he left
nine thousand five hundred men for the guard of his fleet; and
persevered in the fruitless search of Cantacuzene, till his
embarkation was hastened by a fictitious letter, the severity of
the season, the clamors of his independent troops, and the weight
of his spoil and captives. In the prosecution of the civil war,
the prince of Ionia twice returned to Europe; joined his arms
with those of the emperor; besieged Thessalonica, and threatened
Constantinople. Calumny might affix some reproach on his
imperfect aid, his hasty departure, and a bribe of ten thousand
crowns, which he accepted from the Byzantine court; but his
friend was satisfied; and the conduct of Amir is excused by the
more sacred duty of defending against the Latins his hereditary
dominions. The maritime power of the Turks had united the pope,
the king of Cyprus, the republic of Venice, and the order of St.
John, in a laudable crusade; their galleys invaded the coast of
Ionia; and Amir was slain with an arrow, in the attempt to wrest
from the Rhodian knights the citadel of Smyrna. ^48 Before his
death, he generously recommended another ally of his own nation;
not more sincere or zealous than himself, but more able to afford
a prompt and powerful succor, by his situation along the
Propontis and in the front of Constantinople. By the prospect of
a more advantageous treaty, the Turkish prince of Bithynia was
detached from his engagements with Anne of Savoy; and the pride
of Orchan dictated the most solemn protestations, that if he
could obtain the daughter of Cantacuzene, he would invariably
fulfil the duties of a subject and a son. Parental tenderness was
silenced by the voice of ambition: the Greek clergy connived at
the marriage of a Christian princess with a sectary of Mahomet;
and the father of Theodora describes, with shameful satisfaction,
the dishonor of the purple. ^49 A body of Turkish cavalry
attended the ambassadors, who disembarked from thirty vessels,
before his camp of Selybria. A stately pavilion was erected, in
which the empress Irene passed the night with her daughters. In
the morning, Theodora ascended a throne, which was surrounded
with curtains of silk and gold: the troops were under arms; but
the emperor alone was on horseback. At a signal the curtains were
suddenly withdrawn to disclose the bride, or the victim,
encircled by kneeling eunuchs and hymeneal torches: the sound of
flutes and trumpets proclaimed the joyful event; and her
pretended happiness was the theme of the nuptial song, which was
chanted by such poets as the age could produce. Without the rites
of the church, Theodora was delivered to her barbarous lord: but
it had been stipulated, that she should preserve her religion in
the harem of Bursa; and her father celebrates her charity and
devotion in this ambiguous situation. After his peaceful
establishment on the throne of Constantinople, the Greek emperor
visited his Turkish ally, who with four sons, by various wives,
expected him at Scutari, on the Asiatic shore. The two princes
partook, with seeming cordiality, of the pleasures of the banquet
and the chase; and Theodora was permitted to repass the
Bosphorus, and to enjoy some days in the society of her mother.
But the friendship of Orchan was subservient to his religion and
interest; and in the Genoese war he joined without a blush the
enemies of Cantacuzene.</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: Nicephorus Gregoras has expatiated with pleasure
on this amiable character, (l. xii. 7, xiii. 4, 10, xiv. 1, 9,
xvi. 6.) Cantacuzene speaks with honor and esteem of his ally,
(l. iii. c. 56, 57, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 86, 89, 95, 96;) but he
seems ignorant of his own sentimental passion for the Turks, and
indirectly denies the possibility of such unnatural friendship,
(l. iv. c. 40.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: After the conquest of Smyrna by the Latins, the
defence of this fortress was imposed by Pope Gregory XI. on the
knights of Rhodes, (see Vertot, l. v.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: See Cantacuzenus, l. iii. c. 95. Nicephorus
Gregoras, who, for the light of Mount Thabor, brands the emperor
with the names of tyrant and Herod, excuses, rather than blames,
this Turkish marriage, and alleges the passion and power of
Orchan, eggutatoV, kai th dunamo? touV kat' auton hdh PersikouV
(Turkish) uperairwn SatrapaV, (l. xv. 5.) He afterwards
celebrates his kingdom and armies. See his reign in Cantemir, p.
24--30.]</p>

<p>In the treaty with the empress Anne, the Ottoman prince had
inserted a singular condition, that it should be lawful for him
to sell his prisoners at Constantinople, or transport them into
Asia. A naked crowd of Christians of both sexes and every age, of
priests and monks, of matrons and virgins, was exposed in the
public market; the whip was frequently used to quicken the
charity of redemption; and the indigent Greeks deplored the fate
of their brethren, who were led away to the worst evils of
temporal and spiritual bondage ^50 Cantacuzene was reduced to
subscribe the same terms; and their execution must have been
still more pernicious to the empire: a body of ten thousand Turks
had been detached to the assistance of the empress Anne; but the
entire forces of Orchan were exerted in the service of his
father. Yet these calamities were of a transient nature; as soon
as the storm had passed away, the fugitives might return to their
habitations; and at the conclusion of the civil and foreign wars,
Europe was completely evacuated by the Moslems of Asia. It was in
his last quarrel with his pupil that Cantacuzene inflicted the
deep and deadly wound, which could never be healed by his
successors, and which is poorly expiated by his theological
dialogues against the prophet Mahomet. Ignorant of their own
history, the modern Turks confound their first and their final
passage of the Hellespont, ^51 and describe the son of Orchan as
a nocturnal robber, who, with eighty companions, explores by
stratagem a hostile and unknown shore. Soliman, at the head of
ten thousand horse, was transported in the vessels, and
entertained as the friend, of the Greek emperor. In the civil
wars of Romania, he performed some service and perpetrated more
mischief; but the Chersonesus was insensibly filled with a
Turkish colony; and the Byzantine court solicited in vain the
restitution of the fortresses of Thrace. After some artful delays
between the Ottoman prince and his son, their ransom was valued
at sixty thousand crowns, and the first payment had been made
when an earthquake shook the walls and cities of the provinces;
the dismantled places were occupied by the Turks; and Gallipoli,
the key of the Hellespont, was rebuilt and repeopled by the
policy of Soliman. The abdication of Cantacuzene dissolved the
feeble bands of domestic alliance; and his last advice admonished
his countrymen to decline a rash contest, and to compare their
own weakness with the numbers and valor, the discipline and
enthusiasm, of the Moslems. His prudent counsels were despised by
the headstrong vanity of youth, and soon justified by the
victories of the Ottomans. But as he practised in the field the
exercise of the <strong><em>jerid</em></strong>, Soliman was
killed by a fall from his horse; and the aged Orchan wept and
expired on the tomb of his valiant son. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The most lively and concise picture of this
captivity may be found in the history of Ducas, (c. 8,) who
fairly describes what Cantacuzene confesses with a guilty
blush!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: In this passage, and the first conquests in
Europe, Cantemir (p. 27, &amp;c.) gives a miserable idea of his
Turkish guides; nor am I much better satisfied with Chalcondyles,
(l. i. p. 12, &amp;c.) They forget to consult the most authentic
record, the ivth book of Cantacuzene. I likewise regret the last
books, which are still manuscript, of Nicephorus Gregoras. *</p>

<p>Note: * Von Hammer excuses the silence with which the Turkish
historians pass over the earlier intercourse of the Ottomans with
the European continent, of which he enumerates sixteen different
occasions, as if they disdained those peaceful incursions by
which they gained no conquest, and established no permanent
footing on the Byzantine territory. Of the romantic account of
Soliman's first expedition, he says, "As yet the prose of history
had not asserted its right over the poetry of tradition." This
defence would scarcely be accepted as satisfactory by the
historian of the Decline and Fall. -- M. (in Quarterly Review,
vol. xlix. p. 293.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: In the 75th year of his age, the 35th of his
reign. V. Hammer. M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIV: Moguls, Ottoman Turks. -- Part
IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>But the Greeks had not time to rejoice in the death of their
enemies; and the Turkish cimeter was wielded with the same spirit
by Amurath the First, the son of Orchan, and the brother of
Soliman. By the pale and fainting light of the Byzantine annals,
^52 we can discern, that he subdued without resistance the whole
province of Romania or Thrace, from the Hellespont to Mount
H&aelig;mus, and the verge of the capital; and that Adrianople
was chosen for the royal seat of his government and religion in
Europe. Constantinople, whose decline is almost coeval with her
foundation, had often, in the lapse of a thousand years, been
assaulted by the Barbarians of the East and West; but never till
this fatal hour had the Greeks been surrounded, both in Asia and
Europe, by the arms of the same hostile monarchy. Yet the
prudence or generosity of Amurath postponed for a while this easy
conquest; and his pride was satisfied with the frequent and
humble attendance of the emperor John Pal&aelig;ologus and his
four sons, who followed at his summons the court and camp of the
Ottoman prince. He marched against the Sclavonian nations between
the Danube and the Adriatic, the Bulgarians, Servians, Bosnians,
and Albanians; and these warlike tribes, who had so often
insulted the majesty of the empire, were repeatedly broken by his
destructive inroads. Their countries did not abound either in
gold or silver; nor were their rustic hamlets and townships
enriched by commerce or decorated by the arts of luxury. But the
natives of the soil have been distinguished in every age by their
hardiness of mind and body; and they were converted by a prudent
institution into the firmest and most faithful supporters of the
Ottoman greatness. ^53 The vizier of Amurath reminded his
sovereign that, according to the Mahometan law, he was entitled
to a fifth part of the spoil and captives; and that the duty
might easily be levied, if vigilant officers were stationed in
Gallipoli, to watch the passage, and to select for his use the
stoutest and most beautiful of the Christian youth. The advice
was followed: the edict was proclaimed; many thousands of the
European captives were educated in religion and arms; and the new
militia was consecrated and named by a celebrated dervis.
Standing in the front of their ranks, he stretched the sleeve of
his gown over the head of the foremost soldier, and his blessing
was delivered in these words: "Let them be called Janizaries,
(<strong><em>Yengi cheri</em></strong>, or new soldiers;) may
their countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious! their
sword keen! may their spear always hang over the heads of their
enemies! and wheresoever they go, may they return with a
<strong><em>white face!</em></strong>" ^54 ^* Such was the origin
of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes
of the sultans themselves. Their valor has declined, their
discipline is relaxed, and their tumultuary array is incapable of
contending with the order and weapons of modern tactics; but at
the time of their institution, they possessed a decisive
superiority in war; since a regular body of infantry, in constant
exercise and pay, was not maintained by any of the princes of
Christendom. The Janizaries fought with the zeal of proselytes
against their <strong><em>idolatrous</em></strong> countrymen;
and in the battle of Cossova, the league and independence of the
Sclavonian tribes was finally crushed. As the conqueror walked
over the field, he observed that the greatest part of the slain
consisted of beardless youths; and listened to the flattering
reply of his vizier, that age and wisdom would have taught them
not to oppose his irresistible arms. But the sword of his
Janizaries could not defend him from the dagger of despair; a
Servian soldier started from the crowd of dead bodies, and
Amurath was pierced in the belly with a mortal wound. ^* The
grandson of Othman was mild in his temper, modest in his apparel,
and a lover of learning and virtue; but the Moslems were
scandalized at his absence from public worship; and he was
corrected by the firmness of the mufti, who dared to reject his
testimony in a civil cause: a mixture of servitude and freedom
not unfrequent in Oriental history. ^55</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: After the conclusion of Cantacuzene and
Gregoras, there follows a dark interval of a hundred years.
George Phranza, Michael Ducas, and Laonicus Chalcondyles, all
three wrote after the taking of Constantinople.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: See Cantemir, p. 37--41, with his own large and
curious annotations.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: <strong><em>White</em></strong> and
<strong><em>black</em></strong> face are common and proverbial
expressions of praise and reproach in the Turkish language. Hic
<strong><em>niger</em></strong> est, hunc tu Romane caveto, was
likewise a Latin sentence.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to Von Hammer. vol. i. p. 90, Gibbon
and the European writers assign too late a date to this enrolment
of the Janizaries. It took place not in the reign of Amurath, but
in that of his predecessor Orchan. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Ducas has related this as a deliberate act of
self-devotion on the part of a Servian noble who pretended to
desert, and stabbed Amurath during a conference which he had
requested. The Italian translator of Ducas, published by Bekker
in the new edition of the Byzantines, has still further
heightened the romance. See likewise in Von Hammer (Osmanische
Geschichte, vol. i. p. 138) the popular Servian account, which
resembles that of Ducas, and may have been the source of that of
his Italian translator. The Turkish account agrees more nearly
with Gibbon; but the Servian, (Milosch Kohilovisch) while he lay
among the heap of the dead, pretended to have some secret to
impart to Amurath, and stabbed him while he leaned over to
listen. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: See the life and death of Morad, or Amurath I.,
in Cantemir, (p 33--45,) the first book of Chalcondyles, and the
Annales Turcici of Leunclavius. According to another story, the
sultan was stabbed by a Croat in his tent; and this accident was
alleged to Busbequius (Epist i. p. 98) as an excuse for the
unworthy precaution of pinioning, as if were, between two
attendants, an ambassador's arms, when he is introduced to the
royal presence.]</p>

<p>The character of Bajazet, the son and successor of Amurath, is
strongly expressed in his surname of
<strong><em>Ilderim</em></strong>, or the lightning; and he might
glory in an epithet, which was drawn from the fiery energy of his
soul and the rapidity of his destructive march. In the fourteen
years of his reign, ^56 he incessantly moved at the head of his
armies, from Boursa to Adrianople, from the Danube to the
Euphrates; and, though he strenuously labored for the propagation
of the law, he invaded, with impartial ambition, the Christian
and Mahometan princes of Europe and Asia. From Angora to Amasia
and Erzeroum, the northern regions of Anatolia were reduced to
his obedience: he stripped of their hereditary possessions his
brother emirs of Ghermian and Caramania, of Aidin and Sarukhan;
and after the conquest of Iconium the ancient kingdom of the
Seljukians again revived in the Ottoman dynasty. Nor were the
conquests of Bajazet less rapid or important in Europe. No sooner
had he imposed a regular form of servitude on the Servians and
Bulgarians, than he passed the Danube to seek new enemies and new
subjects in the heart of Moldavia. ^57 Whatever yet adhered to
the Greek empire in Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, acknowledged
a Turkish master: an obsequious bishop led him through the gates
of Thermopyl&aelig; into Greece; and we may observe, as a
singular fact, that the widow of a Spanish chief, who possessed
the ancient seat of the oracle of Delphi, deserved his favor by
the sacrifice of a beauteous daughter. The Turkish communication
between Europe and Asia had been dangerous and doubtful, till he
stationed at Gallipoli a fleet of galleys, to command the
Hellespont and intercept the Latin succors of Constantinople.
While the monarch indulged his passions in a boundless range of
injustice and cruelty, he imposed on his soldiers the most rigid
laws of modesty and abstinence; and the harvest was peaceably
reaped and sold within the precincts of his camp. Provoked by the
loose and corrupt administration of justice, he collected in a
house the judges and lawyers of his dominions, who expected that
in a few moments the fire would be kindled to reduce them to
ashes. His ministers trembled in silence: but an &AElig;thiopian
buffoon presumed to insinuate the true cause of the evil; and
future venality was left without excuse, by annexing an adequate
salary to the office of cadhi. ^58 The humble title of emir was
no longer suitable to the Ottoman greatness; and Bajazet
condescended to accept a patent of sultan from the caliphs who
served in Egypt under the yoke of the Mamalukes: ^59 a last and
frivolous homage that was yielded by force to opinion; by the
Turkish conquerors to the house of Abbas and the successors of
the Arabian prophet. The ambition of the sultan was inflamed by
the obligation of deserving this august title; and he turned his
arms against the kingdom of Hungary, the perpetual theatre of the
Turkish victories and defeats. Sigismond, the Hungarian king, was
the son and brother of the emperors of the West: his cause was
that of Europe and the church; and, on the report of his danger,
the bravest knights of France and Germany were eager to march
under his standard and that of the cross. In the battle of
Nicopolis, Bajazet defeated a confederate army of a hundred
thousand Christians, who had proudly boasted, that if the sky
should fall, they could uphold it on their lances. The far
greater part were slain or driven into the Danube; and Sigismond,
escaping to Constantinople by the river and the Black Sea,
returned after a long circuit to his exhausted kingdom. ^60 In
the pride of victory, Bajazet threatened that he would besiege
Buda; that he would subdue the adjacent countries of Germany and
Italy, and that he would feed his horse with a bushel of oats on
the altar of St. Peter at Rome. His progress was checked, not by
the miraculous interposition of the apostle, not by a crusade of
the Christian powers, but by a long and painful fit of the gout.
The disorders of the moral, are sometimes corrected by those of
the physical, world; and an acrimonious humor falling on a single
fibre of one man, may prevent or suspend the misery of
nations.</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: The reign of Bajazet I., or Ilderim Bayazid, is
contained in Cantemir, (p. 46,) the iid book of Chalcondyles, and
the Annales Turcici. The surname of Ilderim, or lightning, is an
example, that the conquerors and poets of every age have
<strong><em>felt</em></strong> the truth of a system which
derives the sublime from the principle of terror.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Cantemir, who celebrates the victories of the
great Stephen over the Turks, (p. 47,) had composed the ancient
and modern state of his principality of Moldavia, which has been
long promised, and is still unpublished.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Leunclav. Annal. Turcici, p. 318, 319. The
venality of the cadhis has long been an object of scandal and
satire; and if we distrust the observations of our travellers, we
may consult the feeling of the Turks themselves, (D'Herbelot,
Bibliot. Orientale, p. 216, 217, 229, 230.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: The fact, which is attested by the Arabic
history of Ben Schounah, a contemporary Syrian, (De Guignes Hist.
des Huns. tom. iv. p. 336.) destroys the testimony of Saad
Effendi and Cantemir, (p. 14, 15,) of the election of Othman to
the dignity of sultan.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: See the Decades Rerum Hungaricarum (Dec. iii. l.
ii. p. 379) of Bonfinius, an Italian, who, in the xvth century,
was invited into Hungary to compose an eloquent history of that
kingdom. Yet, if it be extant and accessible, I should give the
preference to some homely chronicle of the time and country.]</p>

<p>Such is the general idea of the Hungarian war; but the
disastrous adventure of the French has procured us some memorials
which illustrate the victory and character of Bajazet. ^61 The
duke of Burgundy, sovereign of Flanders, and uncle of Charles the
Sixth, yielded to the ardor of his son, John count of Nevers; and
the fearless youth was accompanied by four princes, his
<strong><em>cousins</em></strong>, and those of the French
monarch. Their inexperience was guided by the Sire de Coucy, one
of the best and oldest captain of Christendom; ^62 but the
constable, admiral, and marshal of France ^63 commanded an army
which did not exceed the number of a thousand knights and
squires. ^* These splendid names were the source of presumption
and the bane of discipline. So many might aspire to command, that
none were willing to obey; their national spirit despised both
their enemies and their allies; and in the persuasion that
Bajazet <strong><em>would</em></strong> fly, or
<strong><em>must</em></strong> fall, they began to compute how
soon they should visit Constantinople and deliver the holy
sepulchre. When their scouts announced the approach of the Turks,
the gay and thoughtless youths were at table, already heated with
wine; they instantly clasped their armor, mounted their horses,
rode full speed to the vanguard, and resented as an affront the
advice of Sigismond, which would have deprived them of the right
and honor of the foremost attack. The battle of Nicopolis would
not have been lost, if the French would have obeyed the prudence
of the Hungarians; but it might have been gloriously won, had the
Hungarians imitated the valor of the French. They dispersed the
first line, consisting of the troops of Asia; forced a rampart of
stakes, which had been planted against the cavalry; broke, after
a bloody conflict, the Janizaries themselves; and were at length
overwhelmed by the numerous squadrons that issued from the woods,
and charged on all sides this handful of intrepid warriors. In
the speed and secrecy of his march, in the order and evolutions
of the battle, his enemies felt and admired the military talents
of Bajazet. They accuse his cruelty in the use of victory. After
reserving the count of Nevers, and four-and-twenty lords, ^*
whose birth and riches were attested by his Latin interpreters,
the remainder of the French captives, who had survived the
slaughter of the day, were led before his throne; and, as they
refused to abjure their faith, were successively beheaded in his
presence. The sultan was exasperated by the loss of his bravest
Janizaries; and if it be true, that, on the eve of the
engagement, the French had massacred their Turkish prisoners, ^64
they might impute to themselves the consequences of a just
retaliation. ^! A knight, whose life had been spared, was
permitted to return to Paris, that he might relate the deplorable
tale, and solicit the ransom of the noble captives. In the mean
while, the count of Nevers, with the princes and barons of
France, were dragged along in the marches of the Turkish camp,
exposed as a grateful trophy to the Moslems of Europe and Asia,
and strictly confined at Boursa, as often as Bajazet resided in
his capital. The sultan was pressed each day to expiate with
their blood the blood of his martyrs; but he had pronounced that
they should live, and either for mercy or destruction his word
was irrevocable. He was assured of their value and importance by
the return of the messenger, and the gifts and intercessions of
the kings of France and of Cyprus. Lusignan presented him with a
gold saltcellar of curious workmanship, and of the price of ten
thousand ducats; and Charles the Sixth despatched by the way of
Hungary a cast of Norwegian hawks, and six horse-loads of scarlet
cloth, of fine linen of Rheims, and of Arras tapestry,
representing the battles of the great Alexander. After much
delay, the effect of distance rather than of art, Bajazet agreed
to accept a ransom of two hundred thousand ducats for the count
of Nevers and the surviving princes and barons: the marshal
Boucicault, a famous warrior, was of the number of the fortunate;
but the admiral of France had been slain in battle; and the
constable, with the Sire de Coucy, died in the prison of Boursa.
This heavy demand, which was doubled by incidental costs, fell
chiefly on the duke of Burgundy, or rather on his Flemish
subjects, who were bound by the feudal laws to contribute for the
knighthood and captivity of the eldest son of their lord. For the
faithful discharge of the debt, some merchants of Genoa gave
security to the amount of five times the sum; a lesson to those
warlike times, that commerce and credit are the links of the
society of nations. It had been stipulated in the treaty, that
the French captives should swear never to bear arms against the
person of their conqueror; but the ungenerous restraint was
abolished by Bajazet himself. "I despise," said he to the heir of
Burgundy, "thy oaths and thy arms. Thou art young, and mayest be
ambitious of effacing the disgrace or misfortune of thy first
chivalry. Assemble thy powers, proclaim thy design, and be
assured that Bajazet will rejoice to meet thee a second time in a
field of battle." Before their departure, they were indulged in
the freedom and hospitality of the court of Boursa. The French
princes admired the magnificence of the Ottoman, whose hunting
and hawking equipage was composed of seven thousand huntsmen and
seven thousand falconers. ^65 In their presence, and at his
command, the belly of one of his chamberlains was cut open, on a
complaint against him for drinking the goat's milk of a poor
woman. The strangers were astonished by this act of justice; but
it was the justice of a sultan who disdains to balance the weight
of evidence, or to measure the degrees of guilt.</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: I should not complain of the labor of this work,
if my materials were always derived from such books as the
chronicle of honest Froissard, (vol. iv. c. 67, 72, 74, 79--83,
85, 87, 89,) who read little, inquired much, and believed all.
The original M&eacute;moires of the Mar&eacute;chal de Boucicault
(Partie i. c. 22--28) add some facts, but they are dry and
deficient, if compared with the pleasant garrulity of
Froissard.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: An accurate Memoir on the Life of Enguerrand
VII., Sire de Coucy, has been given by the Baron de Zurlauben,
(Hist. de l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions, tom. xxv.) His rank
and possessions were equally considerable in France and England;
and, in 1375, he led an army of adventurers into Switzerland, to
recover a large patrimony which he claimed in right of his
grandmother, the daughter of the emperor Albert I. of Austria,
(Sinner, Voyage dans la Suisse Occidentale, tom. i. p.
118--124.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: That military office, so respectable at present,
was still more conspicuous when it was divided between two
persons, (Daniel, Hist. de la Milice Fran&ccedil;oise, tom. ii.
p. 5.) One of these, the marshal of the crusade, was the famous
Boucicault, who afterwards defended Constantinople, governed
Genoa, invaded the coast of Asia, and died in the field of
Azincour.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Daru, Hist. de Venice, vol. ii. p. 104, makes the
whole French army amount to 10,000 men, of whom 1000 were
knights. The curious volume of Schiltberger, a German of Munich,
who was taken prisoner in the battle, (edit. Munich, 1813,) and
which V. Hammer receives as authentic, gives the whole number at
6000. See Schiltberger. Reise in dem Orient. and V. Hammer, note,
p. 610. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to Schiltberger there were only twelve
French lords granted to the prayer of the "duke of Burgundy," and
"Herr Stephan Synther, and Johann von Bodem." Schiltberger, p.
13. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: For this odious fact, the Abb&eacute; de Vertot
quotes the Hist. Anonyme de St. Denys, l. xvi. c. 10, 11. (Ordre
de Malthe, tom. ii. p. 310.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: See Schiltberger's very graphic account of the
massacre. He was led out to be slaughtered in cold blood with the
rest f the Christian prisoners, amounting to 10,000. He was
spared at the intercession of the son of Bajazet, with a few
others, on account of their extreme youth. No one under 20 years
of age was put to death. The "duke of Burgundy" was obliged to be
a spectator of this butchery which lasted from early in the
morning till four o'clock, P. M. It ceased only at the
supplication of the leaders of Bajazet's army. Schiltberger, p.
14. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: Sherefeddin Ali (Hist. de Timour Bec, l. v. c.
13) allows Bajazet a round number of 12,000 officers and servants
of the chase. A part of his spoils was afterwards displayed in a
hunting-match of Timour, l. hounds with satin housings; 2.
leopards with collars set with jewels; 3. Grecian greyhounds; and
4, dogs from Europe, as strong as African lions, (idem, l. vi. c.
15.) Bajazet was particularly fond of flying his hawks at cranes,
(Chalcondyles, l. ii. p. 85.)]</p>

<p>After his enfranchisement from an oppressive guardian, John
Pal&aelig;ologus remained thirty-six years, the helpless, and, as
it should seem, the careless spectator of the public ruin. ^66
Love, or rather lust, was his only vigorous passion; and in the
embraces of the wives and virgins of the city, the Turkish slave
forgot the dishonor of the emperor of the
<strong><em>Romans</em></strong> Andronicus, his eldest son, had
formed, at Adrianople, an intimate and guilty friendship with
Sauzes, the son of Amurath; and the two youths conspired against
the authority and lives of their parents. The presence of Amurath
in Europe soon discovered and dissipated their rash counsels;
and, after depriving Sauzes of his sight, the Ottoman threatened
his vassal with the treatment of an accomplice and an enemy,
unless he inflicted a similar punishment on his own son.
Pal&aelig;ologus trembled and obeyed; and a cruel precaution
involved in the same sentence the childhood and innocence of
John, the son of the criminal. But the operation was so mildly,
or so unskilfully, performed, that the one retained the sight of
an eye, and the other was afflicted only with the infirmity of
squinting. Thus excluded from the succession, the two princes
were confined in the tower of Anema; and the piety of Manuel, the
second son of the reigning monarch, was rewarded with the gift of
the Imperial crown. But at the end of two years, the turbulence
of the Latins and the levity of the Greeks, produced a
revolution; ^* and the two emperors were buried in the tower from
whence the two prisoners were exalted to the throne. Another
period of two years afforded Pal&aelig;ologus and Manuel the
means of escape: it was contrived by the magic or subtlety of a
monk, who was alternately named the angel or the devil: they fled
to Scutari; their adherents armed in their cause; and the two
Byzantine factions displayed the ambition and animosity with
which C&aelig;sar and Pompey had disputed the empire of the
world. The Roman world was now contracted to a corner of Thrace,
between the Propontis and the Black Sea, about fifty miles in
length and thirty in breadth; a space of ground not more
extensive than the lesser principalities of Germany or Italy, if
the remains of Constantinople had not still represented the
wealth and populousness of a kingdom. To restore the public
peace, it was found necessary to divide this fragment of the
empire; and while Pal&aelig;ologus and Manuel were left in
possession of the capital, almost all that lay without the walls
was ceded to the blind princes, who fixed their residence at
Rhodosto and Selybria. In the tranquil slumber of royalty, the
passions of John Pal&aelig;ologus survived his reason and his
strength: he deprived his favorite and heir of a blooming
princess of Trebizond; and while the feeble emperor labored to
consummate his nuptials, Manuel, with a hundred of the noblest
Greeks, was sent on a peremptory summons to the Ottoman
<strong><em>porte</em></strong>. They served with honor in the
wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Constantinople excited
his jealousy: he threatened their lives; the new works were
instantly demolished; and we shall bestow a praise, perhaps above
the merit of Pal&aelig;ologus, if we impute this last humiliation
as the cause of his death.</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: For the reigns of John Pal&aelig;ologus and his
son Manuel, from 1354 to 1402, see Ducas, c. 9--15, Phranza, l.
i. c. 16--21, and the ist and iid books of Chalcondyles, whose
proper subject is drowned in a sea of episode.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to Von Hammer it was the power of
Bajazet, vol. i. p. 218.]</p>

<p>The earliest intelligence of that event was communicated to
Manuel, who escaped with speed and secrecy from the palace of
Boursa to the Byzantine throne. Bajazet affected a proud
indifference at the loss of this valuable pledge; and while he
pursued his conquests in Europe and Asia, he left the emperor to
struggle with his blind cousin John of Selybria, who, in eight
years of civil war, asserted his right of primogeniture. At
length, the ambition of the victorious sultan pointed to the
conquest of Constantinople; but he listened to the advice of his
vizier, who represented that such an enterprise might unite the
powers of Christendom in a second and more formidable crusade.
His epistle to the emperor was conceived in these words: "By the
divine clemency, our invincible cimeter has reduced to our
obedience almost all Asia, with many and large countries in
Europe, excepting only the city of Constantinople; for beyond the
walls thou hast nothing left. Resign that city; stipulate thy
reward; or tremble, for thyself and thy unhappy people, at the
consequences of a rash refusal." But his ambassadors were
instructed to soften their tone, and to propose a treaty, which
was subscribed with submission and gratitude. A truce of ten
years was purchased by an annual tribute of thirty thousand
crowns of gold; the Greeks deplored the public toleration of the
law of Mahomet, and Bajazet enjoyed the glory of establishing a
Turkish cadhi, and founding a royal mosque in the metropolis of
the Eastern church. ^67 Yet this truce was soon violated by the
restless sultan: in the cause of the prince of Selybria, the
lawful emperor, an army of Ottomans again threatened
Constantinople; and the distress of Manuel implored the
protection of the king of France. His plaintive embassy obtained
much pity and some relief; and the conduct of the succor was
intrusted to the marshal Boucicault, ^68 whose religious chivalry
was inflamed by the desire of revenging his captivity on the
infidels. He sailed with four ships of war, from Aiguesmortes to
the Hellespont; forced the passage, which was guarded by
seventeen Turkish galleys; landed at Constantinople a supply of
six hundred men-at-arms and sixteen hundred archers; and reviewed
them in the adjacent plain, without condescending to number or
array the multitude of Greeks. By his presence, the blockade was
raised both by sea and land; the flying squadrons of Bajazet were
driven to a more respectful distance; and several castles in
Europe and Asia were stormed by the emperor and the marshal, who
fought with equal valor by each other's side. But the Ottomans
soon returned with an increase of numbers; and the intrepid
Boucicault, after a year's struggle, resolved to evacuate a
country which could no longer afford either pay or provisions for
his soldiers. The marshal offered to conduct Manuel to the French
court, where he might solicit in person a supply of men and
money; and advised, in the mean while, that, to extinguish all
domestic discord, he should leave his blind competitor on the
throne. The proposal was embraced: the prince of Selybria was
introduced to the capital; and such was the public misery, that
the lot of the exile seemed more fortunate than that of the
sovereign. Instead of applauding the success of his vassal, the
Turkish sultan claimed the city as his own; and on the refusal of
the emperor John, Constantinople was more closely pressed by the
calamities of war and famine. Against such an enemy prayers and
resistance were alike unavailing; and the savage would have
devoured his prey, if, in the fatal moment, he had not been
overthrown by another savage stronger than himself. By the
victory of Timour or Tamerlane, the fall of Constantinople was
delayed about fifty years; and this important, though accidental,
service may justly introduce the life and character of the Mogul
conqueror.</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: Cantemir, p. 50--53. Of the Greeks, Ducas alone
(c. 13, 15) acknowledges the Turkish cadhi at Constantinople. Yet
even Ducas dissembles the mosque.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: M&eacute;moires du bon Messire Jean le Maingre,
dit <strong><em>Boucicault</em></strong>, Mar&eacute;chal de
France, partie i<sup>re</sup> c. 30, 35.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXV: Elevation Of Timour Or Tamerlane, And His
Death.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Elevation Of Timour Or Tamerlane To The Throne Of Samarcand.
-- His Conquests In Persia, Georgia, Tartary Russia, India,
Syria, And Anatolia. -- His Turkish War. -- Defeat And Captivity
Of Bajazet. -- Death Of Timour. -- Civil War Of The Sons Of
Bajazet. -- Restoration Of The Turkish Monarchy By Mahomet The
First. -- Siege Of Constantinople By Amurath The Second.</p>

<p>The conquest and monarchy of the world was the first object of
the ambition of Timour. To live in the memory and esteem of
future ages was the second wish of his magnanimous spirit. All
the civil and military transactions of his reign were diligently
recorded in the journals of his secretaries: ^1 the authentic
narrative was revised by the persons best informed of each
particular transaction; and it is believed in the empire and
family of Timour, that the monarch himself composed the
<strong><em>commentaries</em></strong> ^2 of his life, and the
<strong><em>institutions</em></strong> ^3 of his government. ^4
But these cares were ineffectual for the preservation of his
fame, and these precious memorials in the Mogul or Persian
language were concealed from the world, or, at least, from the
knowledge of Europe. The nations which he vanquished exercised a
base and impotent revenge; and ignorance has long repeated the
tale of calumny, ^5 which had disfigured the birth and character,
the person, and even the name, of
<strong><em>Tamerlane</em></strong>. ^6 Yet his real merit would
be enhanced, rather than debased, by the elevation of a peasant
to the throne of Asia; nor can his lameness be a theme of
reproach, unless he had the weakness to blush at a natural, or
perhaps an honorable, infirmity. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: These journals were communicated to Sherefeddin,
or Cherefeddin Ali, a native of Yezd, who composed in the Persian
language a history of Timour Beg, which has been translated into
French by M. Petit de la Croix, (Paris, 1722, in 4 vols. 12 mo.,)
and has always been my faithful guide. His geography and
chronology are wonderfully accurate; and he may be trusted for
public facts, though he servilely praises the virtue and fortune
of the hero. Timour's attention to procure intelligence from his
own and foreign countries may be seen in the Institutions, p.
215, 217, 349, 351.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: These Commentaries are yet unknown in Europe: but
Mr. White gives some hope that they may be imported and
translated by his friend Major Davy, who had read in the East
this "minute and faithful narrative of an interesting and
eventful period." *</p>

<p>Note: * The manuscript of Major Davy has been translated by
Major Stewart, and published by the Oriental Translation
Committee of London. It contains the life of Timour, from his
birth to his forty-first year; but the last thirty years of
western war and conquest are wanting. Major Stewart intimates
that two manuscripts exist in this country containing the whole
work, but excuses himself, on account of his age, from
undertaking the laborious task of completing the translation. It
is to be hoped that the European public will be soon enabled to
judge of the value and authenticity of the Commentaries of the
C&aelig;sar of the East. Major Stewart's work commences with the
Book of Dreams and Omens -- a wild, but characteristic, chronicle
of Visions and Sortes Koranic&aelig;. Strange that a life of
Timour should awaken a reminiscence of the diary of Archbishop
Laud! The early dawn and the gradual expression of his not less
splendid but more real visions of ambition are touched with the
simplicity of truth and nature. But we long to escape from the
petty feuds of the pastoral chieftain, to the triumphs and the
legislation of the conqueror of the world. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: I am ignorant whether the original institution,
in the Turki or Mogul language, be still extant. The Persic
version, with an English translation, and most valuable index,
was published (Oxford, 1783, in 4to.) by the joint labors of
Major Davy and Mr. White, the Arabic professor. This work has
been since translated from the Persic into French, (Paris, 1787,)
by M. Langl&egrave;s, a learned Orientalist, who has added the
life of Timour, and many curious notes.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Shaw Allum, the present Mogul, reads, values, but
cannot imitate, the institutions of his great ancestor. The
English translator relies on their internal evidence; but if any
suspicions should arise of fraud and fiction, they will not be
dispelled by Major Davy's letter. The Orientals have never
cultivated the art of criticism; the patronage of a prince, less
honorable, perhaps, is not less lucrative than that of a
bookseller; nor can it be deemed incredible that a Persian, the
<strong><em>real</em></strong> author, should renounce the
credit, to raise the value and price, of the work.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: The original of the tale is found in the
following work, which is much esteemed for its florid elegance of
style: <strong><em>Ahmedis Arabsiad</em></strong> (Ahmed Ebn
Arabshah) <strong><em>Vit&aelig; et Rerum gestarum Timuri.
Arabice et Latine. Edidit Samuel Henricus Manger.
Franequer</em></strong>, 1767, 2 tom. in 4to. This Syrian author
is ever a malicious, and often an ignorant enemy: the very titles
of his chapters are injurious; as how the wicked, as how the
impious, as how the viper, &amp;c. The copious article of Timur,
in Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale, is of a mixed nature, as
D'Herbelot indifferently draws his materials (p. 877--888) from
Khondemir Ebn Schounah, and the Lebtarikh.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: <strong><em>Demir</em></strong> or
<strong><em>Timour</em></strong> signifies in the Turkish
language, Iron; and it is the appellation of a lord or prince. By
the change of a letter or accent, it is changed into
<strong><em>Lenc</em></strong>, or Lame; and a European
corruption confounds the two words in the name of Tamerlane.
*</p>

<p>Note: * According to the memoirs he was so called by a Shaikh,
who, when visited by his mother on his birth, was reading the
verse of the Koran, 'Are you sure that he who dwelleth in heaven
will not cause the earth to swallow you up, and behold
<strong><em>it shall shake</em></strong>, Tam&ucirc;rn." The
Shaikh then stopped and said, "We have named your son
<strong><em>Tim&ucirc;r</em></strong>," p. 21. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: He was lamed by a wound at the siege of the
capital of Sistan. Sherefeddin, lib. iii. c. 17. p. 136. See Von
Hammer, vol. i. p. 260. -- M.]</p>

<p>In the eyes of the Moguls, who held the indefeasible
succession of the house of Zingis, he was doubtless a rebel
subject; yet he sprang from the noble tribe of Berlass: his fifth
ancestor, Carashar Nevian, had been the vizier ^! of Zagatai, in
his new realm of Transoxiana; and in the ascent of some
generations, the branch of Timour is confounded, at least by the
females, ^7 with the Imperial stem. ^8 He was born forty miles to
the south of Samarcand in the village of Sebzar, in the fruitful
territory of Cash, of which his fathers were the hereditary
chiefs, as well as of a toman of ten thousand horse. ^9 His birth
^10 was cast on one of those periods of anarchy, which announce
the fall of the Asiatic dynasties, and open a new field to
adventurous ambition. The khans of Zagatai were extinct; the
emirs aspired to independence; and their domestic feuds could
only be suspended by the conquest and tyranny of the khans of
Kashgar, who, with an army of Getes or Calmucks, ^11 invaded the
Transoxian kingdom. From the twelfth year of his age, Timour had
entered the field of action; in the twenty-fifth ^! he stood
forth as the deliverer of his country; and the eyes and wishes of
the people were turned towards a hero who suffered in their
cause. The chiefs of the law and of the army had pledged their
salvation to support him with their lives and fortunes; but in
the hour of danger they were silent and afraid; and, after
waiting seven days on the hills of Samarcand, he retreated to the
desert with only sixty horsemen. The fugitives were overtaken by
a thousand Getes, whom he repulsed with incredible slaughter, and
his enemies were forced to exclaim, "Timour is a wonderful man:
fortune and the divine favor are with him." But in this bloody
action his own followers were reduced to ten, a number which was
soon diminished by the desertion of three Carizmians. ^!! He
wandered in the desert with his wife, seven companions, and four
horses; and sixty-two days was he plunged in a loathsome dungeon,
from whence he escaped by his own courage and the remorse of the
oppressor. After swimming the broad and rapid steam of the
Jihoon, or Oxus, he led, during some months, the life of a
vagrant and outlaw, on the borders of the adjacent states. But
his fame shone brighter in adversity; he learned to distinguish
the friends of his person, the associates of his fortune, and to
apply the various characters of men for their advantage, and,
above all, for his own. On his return to his native country,
Timour was successively joined by the parties of his
confederates, who anxiously sought him in the desert; nor can I
refuse to describe, in his pathetic simplicity, one of their
fortunate encounters. He presented himself as a guide to three
chiefs, who were at the head of seventy horse. "When their eyes
fell upon me," says Timour, "they were overwhelmed with joy; and
they alighted from their horses; and they came and kneeled; and
they kissed my stirrup. I also came down from my horse, and took
each of them in my arms. And I put my turban on the head of the
first chief; and my girdle, rich in jewels and wrought with gold,
I bound on the loins of the second; and the third I clothed in my
own coat. And they wept, and I wept also; and the hour of prayer
was arrived, and we prayed. And we mounted our horses, and came
to my dwelling; and I collected my people, and made a feast." His
trusty bands were soon increased by the bravest of the tribes; he
led them against a superior foe; and, after some vicissitudes of
war the Getes were finally driven from the kingdom of
Transoxiana. He had done much for his own glory; but much
remained to be done, much art to be exerted, and some blood to be
spilt, before he could teach his equals to obey him as their
master. The birth and power of emir Houssein compelled him to
accept a vicious and unworthy colleague, whose sister was the
best beloved of his wives. Their union was short and jealous; but
the policy of Timour, in their frequent quarrels, exposed his
rival to the reproach of injustice and perfidy; and, after a
final defeat, Houssein was slain by some sagacious friends, who
presumed, for the last time, to disobey the commands of their
lord. ^* At the age of thirty-four, ^12 and in a general diet or
<strong><em>couroultai</em></strong>, he was invested with
<strong><em>Imperial</em></strong> command, but he affected to
revere the house of Zingis; and while the emir Timour reigned
over Zagatai and the East, a nominal khan served as a private
officer in the armies of his servant. A fertile kingdom, five
hundred miles in length and in breadth, might have satisfied the
ambition of a subject; but Timour aspired to the dominion of the
world; and before his death, the crown of Zagatai was one of the
twenty-seven crowns which he had placed on his head. Without
expatiating on the victories of thirty-five campaigns; without
describing the lines of march, which he repeatedly traced over
the continent of Asia; I shall briefly represent his conquests
in, I. Persia, II. Tartary, and, III. India, ^13 and from thence
proceed to the more interesting narrative of his Ottoman war.</p>

<p>[Footnote !: In the memoirs, the title Gurg&acirc;n is in one
place (p. 23) interpreted the son-in-law; in another (p. 28) as
Kurkan, great prince, generalissimo, and prime minister of
Jagtai. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: After relating some false and foolish tales of
Timour <strong><em>Lenc</em></strong>, Arabshah is compelled to
speak truth, and to own him for a kinsman of Zingis, per
mulieres, (as he peevishly adds,) laqueos Satan&aelig;, (pars i.
c. i. p. 25.) The testimony of Abulghazi Khan (P. ii. c. 5, P. v.
c. 4) is clear, unquestionable, and decisive.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: According to one of the pedigrees, the fourth
ancestor of Zingis, and the ninth of Timour, were brothers; and
they agreed, that the posterity of the elder should succeed to
the dignity of khan, and that the descendants of the younger
should fill the office of their minister and general. This
tradition was at least convenient to justify the
<strong><em>first</em></strong> steps of Timour's ambition,
(Institutions, p. 24, 25, from the MS. fragments of Timour's
History.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: See the preface of Sherefeddin, and Abulfeda's
Geography, (Chorasmi&aelig;, &amp;c., Descriptio, p. 60, 61,) in
the iiid volume of Hudson's Minor Greek Geographers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: See his nativity in Dr. Hyde, (Syntagma
Dissertat. tom. ii. p. 466,) as it was cast by the astrologers of
his grandson Ulugh Beg. He was born, A.D. 1336, April 9, 11&deg;
57'. p. m., lat. 36. I know not whether they can prove the great
conjunction of the planets from whence, like other conquerors and
prophets, Timour derived the surname of Saheb Keran, or master of
the conjunctions, (Bibliot. Orient. p. 878.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: In the Institutions of Timour, these subjects of
the khan of Kashgar are most improperly styled Ouzbegs, or
Usbeks, a name which belongs to another branch and country of
Tartars, (Abulghazi, P. v. c. v. P. vii. c. 5.) Could I be sure
that this word is in the Turkish original, I would boldly
pronounce, that the Institutions were framed a century after the
death of Timour, since the establishment of the Usbeks in
Transoxiana. *</p>

<p>Note: * Col. Stewart observes, that the Persian translator has
sometimes made use of the name Uzbek by anticipation. He
observes, likewise, that these Jits (Getes) are not to be
confounded with the ancient Get&aelig;: they were unconverted
Turks. Col. Tod (History of Rajasthan, vol. i. p. 166) would
identify the Jits with the ancient race. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: He was twenty-seven before he served his first
wars under the emir Houssein, who ruled over Khorasan and
Mawerainnehr. Von Hammer, vol. i. p. 262. Neither of these
statements agrees with the Memoirs. At twelve he was a boy. "I
fancied that I perceived in myself all the signs of greatness and
wisdom, and whoever came to visit me, I received with great
hauteur and dignity." At seventeen he undertook the management of
the flocks and herds of the family, (p. 24.) At nineteen he
became religious, and "left off playing chess," made a kind of
Budhist vow never to injure living thing and felt his foot
paralyzed from having accidentally trod upon an ant, (p. 30.) At
twenty, thoughts of rebellion and greatness rose in his mind; at
twenty-one, he seems to have performed his first feat of arms. He
was a practised warrior when he served, in his twenty-seventh
year, under Emir Houssein.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: Compare Memoirs, page 61. The imprisonment is
there stated at fifty-three days. "At this time I made a vow to
God that I would never keep any person, whether guilty or
innocent, for any length of time, in prison or in chains." p. 63.
-- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Timour, on one occasion, sent him this message:
"He who wishes to embrace the bride of royalty must kiss her
across the edge of the sharp sword," p. 83. The scene of the
trial of Houssein, the resistance of Timour gradually becoming
more feeble, the vengeance of the chiefs becoming proportionably
more determined, is strikingly portrayed. Mem. p 130. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: The ist book of Sherefeddin is employed on the
private life of the hero: and he himself, or his secretary,
(Institutions, p. 3--77,) enlarges with pleasure on the thirteen
designs and enterprises which most truly constitute his
<strong><em>personal</em></strong> merit. It even shines through
the dark coloring of Arabshah, (P. i. c. 1--12.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The conquests of Persia, Tartary, and India, are
represented in the iid and iiid books of Sherefeddin, and by
Arabshah, (c. 13--55.) Consult the excellent Indexes to the
Institutions. *</p>

<p>Note: * Compare the seventh book of Von Hammer, Geschichte des
Osmanischen Reiches. -- M.]</p>

<p>I. For every war, a motive of safety or revenge, of honor or
zeal, of right or convenience, may be readily found in the
jurisprudence of conquerors. No sooner had Timour reunited to the
patrimony of Zagatai the dependent countries of Carizme and
Candahar, than he turned his eyes towards the kingdoms of Iran or
Persia. From the Oxus to the Tigris, that extensive country was
left without a lawful sovereign since the death of Abousaid, the
last of the descendants of the great Holacou. Peace and justice
had been banished from the land above forty years; and the Mogul
invader might seem to listen to the cries of an oppressed people.
Their petty tyrants might have opposed him with confederate arms:
they separately stood, and successively fell; and the difference
of their fate was only marked by the promptitude of submission or
the obstinacy of resistance. Ibrahim, prince of Shirwan, or
Albania, kissed the footstool of the Imperial throne. His
peace-offerings of silks, horses, and jewels, were composed,
according to the Tartar fashion, each article of nine pieces; but
a critical spectator observed, that there were only eight slaves.
"I myself am the ninth," replied Ibrahim, who was prepared for
the remark; and his flattery was rewarded by the smile of Timour.
^14 Shah Mansour, prince of Fars, or the proper Persia, was one
of the least powerful, but most dangerous, of his enemies. In a
battle under the walls of Shiraz, he broke, with three or four
thousand soldiers, the <strong><em>coul</em></strong> or main
body of thirty thousand horse, where the emperor fought in
person. No more than fourteen or fifteen guards remained near the
standard of Timour: he stood firm as a rock, and received on his
helmet two weighty strokes of a cimeter: ^15 the Moguls rallied;
the head of Mansour was thrown at his feet; and he declared his
esteem of the valor of a foe, by extirpating all the males of so
intrepid a race. From Shiraz, his troops advanced to the Persian
Gulf; and the richness and weakness of Ormuz ^16 were displayed
in an annual tribute of six hundred thousand dinars of gold.
Bagdad was no longer the city of peace, the seat of the caliphs;
but the noblest conquest of Holacou could not be overlooked by
his ambitious successor. The whole course of the Tigris and
Euphrates, from the mouth to the sources of those rivers, was
reduced to his obedience: he entered Edessa; and the Turkmans of
the black sheep were chastised for the sacrilegious pillage of a
caravan of Mecca. In the mountains of Georgia, the native
Christians still braved the law and the sword of Mahomet, by
three expeditions he obtained the merit of the
<strong><em>gazie</em></strong>, or holy war; and the prince of
Teflis became his proselyte and friend.</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: The reverence of the Tartars for the mysterious
number of <strong><em>nine</em></strong> is declared by Abulghazi
Khan, who, for that reason, divides his Genealogical History into
nine parts.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: According to Arabshah, (P. i. c. 28, p. 183,)
the coward Timour ran away to his tent, and hid himself from the
pursuit of Shah Mansour under the women's garments. Perhaps
Sherefeddin (l. iii. c. 25) has magnified his courage.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: The history of Ormuz is not unlike that of Tyre.
The old city, on the continent, was destroyed by the Tartars, and
renewed in a neighboring island, without fresh water or
vegetation. The kings of Ormuz, rich in the Indian trade and the
pearl fishery, possessed large territories both in Persia and
Arabia; but they were at first the tributaries of the sultans of
Kerman, and at last were delivered (A.D. 1505) by the Portuguese
tyrants from the tyranny of their own viziers, (Marco Polo, l. i.
c. 15, 16, fol. 7, 8. Abulfeda, Geograph. tabul. xi. p. 261, 262,
an original Chronicle of Ormuz, in Texeira, or Stevens's History
of Persia, p. 376--416, and the Itineraries inserted in the ist
volume of Ramusio, of Ludovico Barthema, (1503,) fol. 167, of
Andrea Corsali, (1517) fol. 202, 203, and of Odoardo Barbessa,
(in 1516,) fol. 313--318.)]</p>

<p>II. A just retaliation might be urged for the invasion of
Turkestan, or the Eastern Tartary. The dignity of Timour could
not endure the impunity of the Getes: he passed the Sihoon,
subdued the kingdom of Kashgar, and marched seven times into the
heart of their country. His most distant camp was two months'
journey, or four hundred and eighty leagues to the north-east of
Samarcand; and his emirs, who traversed the River Irtish,
engraved in the forests of Siberia a rude memorial of their
exploits. The conquest of Kipzak, or the Western Tartary, ^17 was
founded on the double motive of aiding the distressed, and
chastising the ungrateful. Toctamish, a fugitive prince, was
entertained and protected in his court: the ambassadors of Auruss
Khan were dismissed with a haughty denial, and followed on the
same day by the armies of Zagatai; and their success established
Toctamish in the Mogul empire of the North. But, after a reign of
ten years, the new khan forgot the merits and the strength of his
benefactor; the base usurper, as he deemed him, of the sacred
rights of the house of Zingis. Through the gates of Derbend, he
entered Persia at the head of ninety thousand horse: with the
innumerable forces of Kipzak, Bulgaria, Circassia, and Russia, he
passed the Sihoon, burnt the palaces of Timour, and compelled
him, amidst the winter snows, to contend for Samarcand and his
life. After a mild expostulation, and a glorious victory, the
emperor resolved on revenge; and by the east, and the west, of
the Caspian, and the Volga, he twice invaded Kipzak with such
mighty powers, that thirteen miles were measured from his right
to his left wing. In a march of five months, they rarely beheld
the footsteps of man; and their daily subsistence was often
trusted to the fortune of the chase. At length the armies
encountered each other; but the treachery of the standard-bearer,
who, in the heat of action, reversed the Imperial standard of
Kipzak, determined the victory of the Zagatais; and Toctamish (I
peak the language of the Institutions) gave the tribe of Toushi
to the wind of desolation. ^18 He fled to the Christian duke of
Lithuania; again returned to the banks of the Volga; and, after
fifteen battles with a domestic rival, at last perished in the
wilds of Siberia. The pursuit of a flying enemy carried Timour
into the tributary provinces of Russia: a duke of the reigning
family was made prisoner amidst the ruins of his capital; and
Yeletz, by the pride and ignorance of the Orientals, might easily
be confounded with the genuine metropolis of the nation. Moscow
trembled at the approach of the Tartar, and the resistance would
have been feeble, since the hopes of the Russians were placed in
a miraculous image of the Virgin, to whose protection they
ascribed the casual and voluntary retreat of the conqueror.
Ambition and prudence recalled him to the South, the desolate
country was exhausted, and the Mogul soldiers were enriched with
an immense spoil of precious furs, of linen of Antioch, ^19 and
of ingots of gold and silver. ^20 On the banks of the Don, or
Tanais, he received an humble deputation from the consuls and
merchants of Egypt, ^21 Venice, Genoa, Catalonia, and Biscay, who
occupied the commerce and city of Tana, or Azoph, at the mouth of
the river. They offered their gifts, admired his magnificence,
and trusted his royal word. But the peaceful visit of an emir,
who explored the state of the magazines and harbor, was speedily
followed by the destructive presence of the Tartars. The city was
reduced to ashes; the Moslems were pillaged and dismissed; but
all the Christians, who had not fled to their ships, were
condemned either to death or slavery. ^22 Revenge prompted him to
burn the cities of Serai and Astrachan, the monuments of rising
civilization; and his vanity proclaimed, that he had penetrated
to the region of perpetual daylight, a strange phenomenon, which
authorized his Mahometan doctors to dispense with the obligation
of evening prayer. ^23</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: Arabshah had travelled into Kipzak, and acquired
a singular knowledge of the geography, cities, and revolutions,
of that northern region, (P. i. c. 45--49.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Institutions of Timour, p. 123, 125. Mr. White,
the editor, bestows some animadversion on the superficial account
of Sherefeddin, (l. iii. c. 12, 13, 14,) who was ignorant of the
designs of Timour, and the true springs of action.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: The furs of Russia are more credible than the
ingots. But the linen of Antioch has never been famous: and
Antioch was in ruins. I suspect that it was some manufacture of
Europe, which the Hanse merchants had imported by the way of
Novogorod.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: M. Levesque (Hist. de Russie, tom. ii. p. 247.
Vie de Timour, p. 64--67, before the French version of the
Institutes) has corrected the error of Sherefeddin, and marked
the true limit of Timour's conquests. His arguments are
superfluous; and a simple appeal to the Russian annals is
sufficient to prove that Moscow, which six years before had been
taken by Toctamish, escaped the arms of a more formidable
invader.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: An Egyptian consul from Grand Cairo is mentioned
in Barbaro's voyage to Tana in 1436, after the city had been
rebuilt, (Ramusio, tom. ii. fol. 92.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: The sack of Azoph is described by Sherefeddin,
(l. iii. c. 55,) and much more particularly by the author of an
Italian chronicle, (Andreas de Redusiis de Quero, in Chron.
Tarvisiano, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. xix. p.
802--805.) He had conversed with the Mianis, two Venetian
brothers, one of whom had been sent a deputy to the camp of
Timour, and the other had lost at Azoph three sons and 12,000
ducats.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: Sherefeddin only says (l. iii. c. 13) that the
rays of the setting, and those of the rising sun, were scarcely
separated by any interval; a problem which may be solved in the
latitude of Moscow, (the 56th degree,) with the aid of the Aurora
Borealis, and a long summer twilight. But a
<strong><em>day</em></strong> of forty days (Khondemir apud
D'Herbelot, p. 880) would rigorously confine us within the polar
circle.]</p>

<p>III. When Timour first proposed to his princes and emirs the
invasion of India or Hindostan, ^24 he was answered by a murmur
of discontent: "The rivers! and the mountains and deserts! and
the soldiers clad in armor! and the elephants, destroyers of
men!" But the displeasure of the emperor was more dreadful than
all these terrors; and his superior reason was convinced, that an
enterprise of such tremendous aspect was safe and easy in the
execution. He was informed by his spies of the weakness and
anarchy of Hindostan: the soubahs of the provinces had erected
the standard of rebellion; and the perpetual infancy of Sultan
Mahmoud was despised even in the harem of Delhi. The Mogul army
moved in three great divisions; and Timour observes with
pleasure, that the ninety-two squadrons of a thousand horse most
fortunately corresponded with the ninety-two names or epithets of
the prophet Mahomet. ^* Between the Jihoon and the Indus they
crossed one of the ridges of mountains, which are styled by the
Arabian geographers The Stony Girdles of the Earth. The highland
robbers were subdued or extirpated; but great numbers of men and
horses perished in the snow; the emperor himself was let down a
precipice on a portable scaffold -- the ropes were one hundred
and fifty cubits in length; and before he could reach the bottom,
this dangerous operation was five times repeated. Timour crossed
the Indus at the ordinary passage of Attok; and successively
traversed, in the footsteps of Alexander, the
<strong><em>Punjab</em></strong>, or five rivers, ^25 that fall
into the master stream. From Attok to Delhi, the high road
measures no more than six hundred miles; but the two conquerors
deviated to the south-east; and the motive of Timour was to join
his grandson, who had achieved by his command the conquest of
Moultan. On the eastern bank of the Hyphasis, on the edge of the
desert, the Macedonian hero halted and wept: the Mogul entered
the desert, reduced the fortress of Batmir, and stood in arms
before the gates of Delhi, a great and flourishing city, which
had subsisted three centuries under the dominion of the Mahometan
kings. ^! The siege, more especially of the castle, might have
been a work of time; but he tempted, by the appearance of
weakness, the sultan Mahmoud and his vizier to descend into the
plain, with ten thousand cuirassiers, forty thousand of his
foot-guards, and one hundred and twenty elephants, whose tusks
are said to have been armed with sharp and poisoned daggers.
Against these monsters, or rather against the imagination of his
troops, he condescended to use some extraordinary precautions of
fire and a ditch, of iron spikes and a rampart of bucklers; but
the event taught the Moguls to smile at their own fears; and as
soon as these unwieldy animals were routed, the inferior species
(the men of India) disappeared from the field. Timour made his
triumphal entry into the capital of Hindostan; and admired, with
a view to imitate, the architecture of the stately mosque; but
the order or license of a general pillage and massacre polluted
the festival of his victory. He resolved to purify his soldiers
in the blood of the idolaters, or Gentoos, who still surpass, in
the proportion of ten to one, the numbers of the Moslems. ^* In
this pious design, he advanced one hundred miles to the
north-east of Delhi, passed the Ganges, fought several battles by
land and water, and penetrated to the famous rock of Coupele, the
statue of the cow, ^! that <strong><em>seems</em></strong> to
discharge the mighty river, whose source is far distant among the
mountains of Thibet. ^26 His return was along the skirts of the
northern hills; nor could this rapid campaign of one year justify
the strange foresight of his emirs, that their children in a warm
climate would degenerate into a race of Hindoos.</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: For the Indian war, see the Institutions, (p.
129--139,) the fourth book of Sherefeddin, and the history of
Ferishta, (in Dow, vol. ii. p. 1--20,) which throws a general
light on the affairs of Hindostan.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Gibbon (observes M. von Hammer) is mistaken in
the correspondence of the ninety-two squadrons of his army with
the ninety-two names of God: the names of God are ninety-nine.
and Allah is the hundredth, p. 286, note. But Gibbon speaks of
the names or epithets of Mahomet, not of God. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: The rivers of the Punjab, the five eastern
branches of the Indus, have been laid down for the first time
with truth and accuracy in Major Rennel's incomparable map of
Hindostan. In this Critical Memoir he illustrates with judgment
and learning the marches of Alexander and Timour. *</p>

<p>Note *: * See vol. i. ch. ii. note 1. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: They took, on their march, 100,000 slaves,
Guebers they were all murdered. V. Hammer, vol. i. p. 286. They
are called idolaters. Briggs's Ferishta, vol. i. p. 491. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See a curious passage on the destruction of the
Hindoo idols, Memoirs, p. 15. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Consult the very striking description of the
Cow's Mouth by Captain Hodgson, Asiat. Res. vol. xiv. p. 117. "A
most wonderful scene. The B'hagiratha or Ganges issues from under
a very low arch at the foot of the grand snow bed. My guide, an
illiterate mountaineer compared the pendent icicles to Mahodeva's
hair." (Compare Poems, Quarterly Rev. vol. xiv. p. 37, and at the
end of my translation of Nala.) "Hindoos of research may formerly
have been here; and f so. I cannot think of any place to which
they might more aptly give the name of a cow's mouth than to this
extraordinary debouche. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: The two great rivers, the Ganges and
Burrampooter, rise in Thibet, from the opposite ridges of the
same hills, separate from each other to the distance of 1200
miles, and, after a winding course of 2000 miles, again meet in
one point near the Gulf of Bengal. Yet so capricious is Fame,
that the Burrampooter is a late discovery, while his brother
Ganges has been the theme of ancient and modern story Coupele,
the scene of Timour's last victory, must be situate near Loldong,
1100 miles from Calcutta; and in 1774, a British camp! (Rennel's
Memoir, p. 7, 59, 90, 91, 99.)]</p>

<p>It was on the banks of the Ganges that Timour was informed, by
his speedy messengers, of the disturbances which had arisen on
the confines of Georgia and Anatolia, of the revolt of the
Christians, and the ambitious designs of the sultan Bajazet. His
vigor of mind and body was not impaired by sixty-three years, and
innumerable fatigues; and, after enjoying some tranquil months in
the palace of Samarcand, he proclaimed a new expedition of seven
years into the western countries of Asia. ^27 To the soldiers who
had served in the Indian war he granted the choice of remaining
at home, or following their prince; but the troops of all the
provinces and kingdoms of Persia were commanded to assemble at
Ispahan, and wait the arrival of the Imperial standard. It was
first directed against the Christians of Georgia, who were strong
only in their rocks, their castles, and the winter season; but
these obstacles were overcome by the zeal and perseverance of
Timour: the rebels submitted to the tribute or the Koran; and if
both religions boasted of their martyrs, that name is more justly
due to the Christian prisoners, who were offered the choice of
abjuration or death. On his descent from the hills, the emperor
gave audience to the first ambassadors of Bajazet, and opened the
hostile correspondence of complaints and menaces, which fermented
two years before the final explosion. Between two jealous and
haughty neighbors, the motives of quarrel will seldom be wanting.
The Mogul and Ottoman conquests now touched each other in the
neighborhood of Erzeroum, and the Euphrates; nor had the doubtful
limit been ascertained by time and treaty. Each of these
ambitious monarchs might accuse his rival of violating his
territory, of threatening his vassals, and protecting his rebels;
and, by the name of rebels, each understood the fugitive princes,
whose kingdoms he had usurped, and whose life or liberty he
implacably pursued. The resemblance of character was still more
dangerous than the opposition of interest; and in their
victorious career, Timour was impatient of an equal, and Bajazet
was ignorant of a superior. The first epistle ^28 of the Mogul
emperor must have provoked, instead of reconciling, the Turkish
sultan, whose family and nation he affected to despise. ^29 "Dost
thou not know, that the greatest part of Asia is subject to our
arms and our laws? that our invincible forces extend from one sea
to the other? that the potentates of the earth form a line before
our gate? and that we have compelled Fortune herself to watch
over the prosperity of our empire. What is the foundation of thy
insolence and folly? Thou hast fought some battles in the woods
of Anatolia; contemptible trophies! Thou hast obtained some
victories over the Christians of Europe; thy sword was blessed by
the apostle of God; and thy obedience to the precept of the
Koran, in waging war against the infidels, is the sole
consideration that prevents us from destroying thy country, the
frontier and bulwark of the Moslem world. Be wise in time;
reflect; repent; and avert the thunder of our vengeance, which is
yet suspended over thy head. Thou art no more than a pismire; why
wilt thou seek to provoke the elephants? Alas! they will trample
thee under their feet." In his replies, Bajazet poured forth the
indignation of a soul which was deeply stung by such unusual
contempt. After retorting the basest reproaches on the thief and
rebel of the desert, the Ottoman recapitulates his boasted
victories in Iran, Touran, and the Indies; and labors to prove,
that Timour had never triumphed unless by his own perfidy and the
vices of his foes. "Thy armies are innumerable: be they so; but
what are the arrows of the flying Tartar against the cimeters and
battle-axes of my firm and invincible Janizaries? I will guard
the princes who have implored my protection: seek them in my
tents. The cities of Arzingan and Erzeroum are mine; and unless
the tribute be duly paid, I will demand the arrears under the
walls of Tauris and Sultania." The ungovernable rage of the
sultan at length betrayed him to an insult of a more domestic
kind. "If I fly from thy arms," said he, "may
<strong><em>my</em></strong> wives be thrice divorced from my
bed: but if thou hast not courage to meet me in the field, mayest
thou again receive <strong><em>thy</em></strong> wives after they
have thrice endured the embraces of a stranger." ^30 Any
violation by word or deed of the secrecy of the harem is an
unpardonable offence among the Turkish nations; ^31 and the
political quarrel of the two monarchs was imbittered by private
and personal resentment. Yet in his first expedition, Timour was
satisfied with the siege and destruction of Siwas or Sebaste, a
strong city on the borders of Anatolia; and he revenged the
indiscretion of the Ottoman, on a garrison of four thousand
Armenians, who were buried alive for the brave and faithful
discharge of their duty. ^! As a Mussulman, he seemed to respect
the pious occupation of Bajazet, who was still engaged in the
blockade of Constantinople; and after this salutary lesson, the
Mogul conqueror checked his pursuit, and turned aside to the
invasion of Syria and Egypt. In these transactions, the Ottoman
prince, by the Orientals, and even by Timour, is styled the
<strong><em>Kaissar of Roum</em></strong>, the C&aelig;sar of the
Romans; a title which, by a small anticipation, might be given to
a monarch who possessed the provinces, and threatened the city,
of the successors of Constantine. ^32</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: See the Institutions, p. 141, to the end of the
1st book, and Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 1--16,) to the entrance of
Timour into Syria.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: We have three copies of these hostile epistles
in the Institutions, (p. 147,) in Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 14,) and
in Arabshah, (tom. ii. c. 19 p. 183--201;) which agree with each
other in the spirit and substance rather than in the style. It is
probable, that they have been translated, with various latitude,
from the Turkish original into the Arabic and Persian tongues.
*</p>

<p>Note: * Von Hammer considers the letter which Gibbon inserted
in the text to be spurious. On the various copies of these
letters, see his note, p 116. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: The Mogul emir distinguishes himself and his
countrymen by the name of <strong><em>Turks</em></strong>, and
stigmatizes the race and nation of Bajazet with the less
honorable epithet of <strong><em>Turkmans</em></strong>. Yet I do
not understand how the Ottomans could be descended from a Turkman
sailor; those inland shepherds were so remote from the sea, and
all maritime affairs. *</p>

<p>Note: * Price translated the word pilot or boatman. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: According to the Koran, (c. ii. p. 27, and
Sale's Discourses, p. 134,) Mussulman who had thrice divorced his
wife, (who had thrice repeated the words of a divorce,) could not
take her again, till after she had been married
<strong><em>to</em></strong>, and repudiated
<strong><em>by</em></strong>, another husband; an ignominious
transaction, which it is needless to aggravate, by supposing that
the first husband must see her enjoyed by a second before his
face, (Rycaut's State of the Ottoman Empire, l. ii. c. 21.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: The common delicacy of the Orientals, in never
speaking of their women, is ascribed in a much higher degree by
Arabshah to the Turkish nations; and it is remarkable enough,
that Chalcondyles (l. ii. p. 55) had some knowledge of the
prejudice and the insult. *</p>

<p>Note: * See Von Hammer, p. 308, and note, p. 621. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: Still worse barbarities were perpetrated on these
brave men. Von Hammer, vol. i. p. 295. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: For the style of the Moguls, see the
Institutions, (p. 131, 147,) and for the Persians, the
Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale, (p. 882;) but I do not find that
the title of C&aelig;sar has been applied by the Arabians, or
assumed by the Ottomans themselves.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXV: Elevation Of Timour Or Tamerlane, And
His Death. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>The military republic of the Mamalukes still reigned in Egypt
and Syria: but the dynasty of the Turks was overthrown by that of
the Circassians; ^33 and their favorite Barkok, from a slave and
a prisoner, was raised and restored to the throne. In the midst
of rebellion and discord, he braved the menaces, corresponded
with the enemies, and detained the ambassadors, of the Mogul, who
patiently expected his decease, to revenge the crimes of the
father on the feeble reign of his son Farage. The Syrian emirs
^34 were assembled at Aleppo to repel the invasion: they confided
in the fame and discipline of the Mamalukes, in the temper of
their swords and lances of the purest steel of Damascus, in the
strength of their walled cities, and in the populousness of sixty
thousand villages; and instead of sustaining a siege, they threw
open their gates, and arrayed their forces in the plain. But
these forces were not cemented by virtue and union; and some
powerful emirs had been seduced to desert or betray their more
loyal companions. Timour's front was covered with a line of
Indian elephants, whose turrets were filled with archers and
Greek fire: the rapid evolutions of his cavalry completed the
dismay and disorder; the Syrian crowds fell back on each other:
many thousands were stifled or slaughtered in the entrance of the
great street; the Moguls entered with the fugitives; and after a
short defence, the citadel, the impregnable citadel of Aleppo,
was surrendered by cowardice or treachery. Among the suppliants
and captives, Timour distinguished the doctors of the law, whom
he invited to the dangerous honor of a personal conference. ^35
The Mogul prince was a zealous Mussulman; but his Persian schools
had taught him to revere the memory of Ali and Hosein; and he had
imbibed a deep prejudice against the Syrians, as the enemies of
the son of the daughter of the apostle of God. To these doctors
he proposed a captious question, which the casuists of Bochara,
Samarcand, and Herat, were incapable of resolving. "Who are the
true martyrs, of those who are slain on my side, or on that of my
enemies?" But he was silenced, or satisfied, by the dexterity of
one of the cadhis of Aleppo, who replied in the words of Mahomet
himself, that the motive, not the ensign, constitutes the martyr;
and that the Moslems of either party, who fight only for the
glory of God, may deserve that sacred appellation. The true
succession of the caliphs was a controversy of a still more
delicate nature; and the frankness of a doctor, too honest for
his situation, provoked the emperor to exclaim, "Ye are as false
as those of Damascus: Moawiyah was a usurper, Yezid a tyrant, and
Ali alone is the lawful successor of the prophet." A prudent
explanation restored his tranquillity; and he passed to a more
familiar topic of conversation. "What is your age?" said he to
the cadhi. "Fifty years." -- "It would be the age of my eldest
son: you see me here (continued Timour) a poor lame, decrepit
mortal. Yet by my arm has the Almighty been pleased to subdue the
kingdoms of Iran, Touran, and the Indies. I am not a man of
blood; and God is my witness, that in all my wars I have never
been the aggressor, and that my enemies have always been the
authors of their own calamity." During this peaceful conversation
the streets of Aleppo streamed with blood, and reechoed with the
cries of mothers and children, with the shrieks of violated
virgins. The rich plunder that was abandoned to his soldiers
might stimulate their avarice; but their cruelty was enforced by
the peremptory command of producing an adequate number of heads,
which, according to his custom, were curiously piled in columns
and pyramids: the Moguls celebrated the feast of victory, while
the surviving Moslems passed the night in tears and in chains. I
shall not dwell on the march of the destroyer from Aleppo to
Damascus, where he was rudely encountered, and almost overthrown,
by the armies of Egypt. A retrograde motion was imputed to his
distress and despair: one of his nephews deserted to the enemy;
and Syria rejoiced in the tale of his defeat, when the sultan was
driven by the revolt of the Mamalukes to escape with
precipitation and shame to his palace of Cairo. Abandoned by
their prince, the inhabitants of Damascus still defended their
walls; and Timour consented to raise the siege, if they would
adorn his retreat with a gift or ransom; each article of nine
pieces. But no sooner had he introduced himself into the city,
under color of a truce, than he perfidiously violated the treaty;
imposed a contribution of ten millions of gold; and animated his
troops to chastise the posterity of those Syrians who had
executed, or approved, the murder of the grandson of Mahomet. A
family which had given honorable burial to the head of Hosein,
and a colony of artificers, whom he sent to labor at Samarcand,
were alone reserved in the general massacre, and after a period
of seven centuries, Damascus was reduced to ashes, because a
Tartar was moved by religious zeal to avenge the blood of an
Arab. The losses and fatigues of the campaign obliged Timour to
renounce the conquest of Palestine and Egypt; but in his return
to the Euphrates he delivered Aleppo to the flames; and justified
his pious motive by the pardon and reward of two thousand
sectaries of Ali, who were desirous to visit the tomb of his son.
I have expatiated on the personal anecdotes which mark the
character of the Mogul hero; but I shall briefly mention, ^36
that he erected on the ruins of Bagdad a pyramid of ninety
thousand heads; again visited Georgia; encamped on the banks of
Araxes; and proclaimed his resolution of marching against the
Ottoman emperor. Conscious of the importance of the war, he
collected his forces from every province: eight hundred thousand
men were enrolled on his military list; ^37 but the splendid
commands of five, and ten, thousand horse, may be rather
expressive of the rank and pension of the chiefs, than of the
genuine number of effective soldiers. ^38 In the pillage of
Syria, the Moguls had acquired immense riches: but the delivery
of their pay and arrears for seven years more firmly attached
them to the Imperial standard.</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: See the reigns of Barkok and Pharadge, in M. De
Guignes, (tom. iv. l. xxii.,) who, from the Arabic texts of
Aboulmahasen, Ebn (Schounah, and Aintabi, has added some facts to
our common stock of materials.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: For these recent and domestic transactions,
Arabshah, though a partial, is a credible, witness, (tom. i. c.
64--68, tom. ii. c. 1--14.) Timour must have been odious to a
Syrian; but the notoriety of facts would have obliged him, in
some measure, to respect his enemy and himself. His bitters may
correct the luscious sweets of Sherefeddin, (l. v. c.
17--29.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: These interesting conversations appear to have
been copied by Arabshah (tom. i. c. 68, p. 625--645) from the
cadhi and historian Ebn Schounah, a principal actor. Yet how
could he be alive seventy-five years afterwards? (D'Herbelot, p.
792.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: The marches and occupations of Timour between
the Syrian and Ottoman wars are represented by Sherefeddin (l. v.
c. 29--43) and Arabshah, (tom. ii. c. 15--18.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: This number of 800,000 was extracted by
Arabshah, or rather by Ebn Schounah, ex rationario Timuri, on the
faith of a Carizmian officer, (tom. i. c. 68, p. 617;) and it is
remarkable enough, that a Greek historian (Phranza, l. i. c. 29)
adds no more than 20,000 men. Poggius reckons 1,000,000; another
Latin contemporary (Chron. Tarvisianum, apud Muratori, tom. xix.
p. 800) 1,100,000; and the enormous sum of 1,600,000 is attested
by a German soldier, who was present at the battle of Angora,
(Leunclav. ad Chalcondyl. l. iii. p. 82.) Timour, in his
Institutions, has not deigned to calculate his troops, his
subjects, or his revenues.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: A wide latitude of non-effectives was allowed by
the Great Mogul for his own pride and the benefit of his
officers. Bernier's patron was Penge-Hazari, commander of 5000
horse; of which he maintained no more than 500, (Voyages, tom. i.
p. 288, 289.)]</p>

<p>During this diversion of the Mogul arms, Bajazet had two years
to collect his forces for a more serious encounter. They
consisted of four hundred thousand horse and foot, ^39 whose
merit and fidelity were of an unequal complexion. We may
discriminate the Janizaries, who have been gradually raised to an
establishment of forty thousand men; a national cavalry, the
Spahis of modern times; twenty thousand cuirassiers of Europe,
clad in black and impenetrable armor; the troops of Anatolia,
whose princes had taken refuge in the camp of Timour, and a
colony of Tartars, whom he had driven from Kipzak, and to whom
Bajazet had assigned a settlement in the plains of Adrianople.
The fearless confidence of the sultan urged him to meet his
antagonist; and, as if he had chosen that spot for revenge, he
displayed his banner near the ruins of the unfortunate Suvas. In
the mean while, Timour moved from the Araxes through the
countries of Armenia and Anatolia: his boldness was secured by
the wisest precautions; his speed was guided by order and
discipline; and the woods, the mountains, and the rivers, were
diligently explored by the flying squadrons, who marked his road
and preceded his standard. Firm in his plan of fighting in the
heart of the Ottoman kingdom, he avoided their camp; dexterously
inclined to the left; occupied C&aelig;sarea; traversed the salt
desert and the River Halys; and invested Angora: while the
sultan, immovable and ignorant in his post, compared the Tartar
swiftness to the crawling of a snail; ^40 he returned on the
wings of indignation to the relief of Angora: and as both
generals were alike impatient for action, the plains round that
city were the scene of a memorable battle, which has immortalized
the glory of Timour and the shame of Bajazet. For this signal
victory the Mogul emperor was indebted to himself, to the genius
of the moment, and the discipline of thirty years. He had
improved the tactics, without violating the manners, of his
nation, ^41 whose force still consisted in the missile weapons,
and rapid evolutions, of a numerous cavalry. From a single troop
to a great army, the mode of attack was the same: a foremost line
first advanced to the charge, and was supported in a just order
by the squadrons of the great vanguard. The general's eye watched
over the field, and at his command the front and rear of the
right and left wings successively moved forwards in their several
divisions, and in a direct or oblique line: the enemy was pressed
by eighteen or twenty attacks; and each attack afforded a chance
of victory. If they all proved fruitless or unsuccessful, the
occasion was worthy of the emperor himself, who gave the signal
of advancing to the standard and main body, which he led in
person. ^42 But in the battle of Angora, the main body itself was
supported, on the flanks and in the rear, by the bravest
squadrons of the reserve, commanded by the sons and grandsons of
Timour. The conqueror of Hindostan ostentatiously showed a line
of elephants, the trophies, rather than the instruments, of
victory; the use of the Greek fire was familiar to the Moguls and
Ottomans; but had they borrowed from Europe the recent invention
of gunpowder and cannon, the artificial thunder, in the hands of
either nation, must have turned the fortune of the day. ^43 In
that day Bajazet displayed the qualities of a soldier and a
chief: but his genius sunk under a stronger ascendant; and, from
various motives, the greatest part of his troops failed him in
the decisive moment. His rigor and avarice ^* had provoked a
mutiny among the Turks; and even his son Soliman too hastily
withdrew from the field. The forces of Anatolia, loyal in their
revolt, were drawn away to the banners of their lawful princes.
His Tartar allies had been tempted by the letters and emissaries
of Timour; ^44 who reproached their ignoble servitude under the
slaves of their fathers; and offered to their hopes the dominion
of their new, or the liberty of their ancient, country. In the
right wing of Bajazet the cuirassiers of Europe charged, with
faithful hearts and irresistible arms: but these men of iron were
soon broken by an artful flight and headlong pursuit; and the
Janizaries, alone, without cavalry or missile weapons, were
encompassed by the circle of the Mogul hunters. Their valor was
at length oppressed by heat, thirst, and the weight of numbers;
and the unfortunate sultan, afflicted with the gout in his hands
and feet, was transported from the field on the fleetest of his
horses. He was pursued and taken by the titular khan of Zagatai;
and, after his capture, and the defeat of the Ottoman powers, the
kingdom of Anatolia submitted to the conqueror, who planted his
standard at Kiotahia, and dispersed on all sides the ministers of
rapine and destruction. Mirza Mehemmed Sultan, the eldest and
best beloved of his grandsons, was despatched to Boursa, with
thirty thousand horse; and such was his youthful ardor, that he
arrived with only four thousand at the gates of the capital,
after performing in five days a march of two hundred and thirty
miles. Yet fear is still more rapid in its course; and Soliman,
the son of Bajazet, had already passed over to Europe with the
royal treasure. The spoil, however, of the palace and city was
immense: the inhabitants had escaped; but the buildings, for the
most part of wood, were reduced to ashes From Boursa, the
grandson of Timour advanced to Nice, ever yet a fair and
flourishing city; and the Mogul squadrons were only stopped by
the waves of the Propontis. The same success attended the other
mirzas and emirs in their excursions; and Smyrna, defended by the
zeal and courage of the Rhodian knights, alone deserved the
presence of the emperor himself. After an obstinate defence, the
place was taken by storm: all that breathed was put to the sword;
and the heads of the Christian heroes were launched from the
engines, on board of two carracks, or great ships of Europe, that
rode at anchor in the harbor. The Moslems of Asia rejoiced in
their deliverance from a dangerous and domestic foe; and a
parallel was drawn between the two rivals, by observing that
Timour, in fourteen days, had reduced a fortress which had
sustained seven years the siege, or at least the blockade, of
Bajazet. ^45</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: Timour himself fixes at 400,000 men the Ottoman
army, (Institutions, p. 153,) which is reduced to 150,000 by
Phranza, (l. i. c. 29,) and swelled by the German soldier to
1,400,000. It is evident that the Moguls were the more
numerous.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: It may not be useless to mark the distances
between Angora and the neighboring cities, by the journeys of the
caravans, each of twenty or twenty-five miles; to Smyrna xx., to
Kiotahia x., to Boursa x., to C&aelig;sarea, viii., to Sinope x.,
to Nicomedia ix., to Constantinople xii. or xiii., (see
Tournefort, Voyage au Levant, tom. ii. lettre xxi.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: See the Systems of Tactics in the Institutions,
which the English editors have illustrated with elaborate plans,
(p. 373--407.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: The sultan himself (says Timour) must then put
the foot of courage into the stirrup of patience. A Tartar
metaphor, which is lost in the English, but preserved in the
French, version of the Institutes, (p. 156, 157.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: The Greek fire, on Timour's side, is attested by
Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 47;) but Voltaire's strange suspicion,
that some cannon, inscribed with strange characters, must have
been sent by that monarch to Delhi, is refuted by the universal
silence of contemporaries.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See V. Hammer, vol. i. p. 310, for the singular
hints which were conveyed to him of the wisdom of unlocking his
hoarded treasures. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: Timour has dissembled this secret and important
negotiation with the Tartars, which is indisputably proved by the
joint evidence of the Arabian, (tom. i. c. 47, p. 391,) Turkish,
(Annal. Leunclav. p. 321,) and Persian historians, (Khondemir,
apud d'Herbelot, p. 882.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: For the war of Anatolia or Roum, I add some
hints in the Institutions, to the copious narratives of
Sherefeddin (l. v. c. 44--65) and Arabshah, (tom. ii. c. 20--35.)
On this part only of Timour's history it is lawful to quote the
Turks, (Cantemir, p. 53--55, Annal. Leunclav. p. 320--322,) and
the Greeks, (Phranza, l. i. c. 59, Ducas, c. 15--17,
Chalcondyles, l. iii.)]</p>

<p>The <strong><em>iron cage</em></strong> in which Bajazet was
imprisoned by Tamerlane, so long and so often repeated as a moral
lesson, is now rejected as a fable by the modern writers, who
smile at the vulgar credulity. ^46 They appeal with confidence to
the Persian history of Sherefeddin Ali, which has been given to
our curiosity in a French version, and from which I shall collect
and abridge a more specious narrative of this memorable
transaction. No sooner was Timour informed that the captive
Ottoman was at the door of his tent, than he graciously stepped
forwards to receive him, seated him by his side, and mingled with
just reproaches a soothing pity for his rank and misfortune.
"Alas!" said the emperor, "the decree of fate is now accomplished
by your own fault; it is the web which you have woven, the thorns
of the tree which yourself have planted. I wished to spare, and
even to assist, the champion of the Moslems; you braved our
threats; you despised our friendship; you forced us to enter your
kingdom with our invincible armies. Behold the event. Had you
vanquished, I am not ignorant of the fate which you reserved for
myself and my troops. But I disdain to retaliate: your life and
honor are secure; and I shall express my gratitude to God by my
clemency to man." The royal captive showed some signs of
repentance, accepted the humiliation of a robe of honor, and
embraced with tears his son Mousa, who, at his request, was
sought and found among the captives of the field. The Ottoman
princes were lodged in a splendid pavilion; and the respect of
the guards could be surpassed only by their vigilance. On the
arrival of the harem from Boursa, Timour restored the queen
Despina and her daughter to their father and husband; but he
piously required, that the Servian princess, who had hitherto
been indulged in the profession of Christianity, should embrace
without delay the religion of the prophet. In the feast of
victory, to which Bajazet was invited, the Mogul emperor placed a
crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand, with a solemn
assurance of restoring him with an increase of glory to the
throne of his ancestors. But the effect of his promise was
disappointed by the sultan's untimely death: amidst the care of
the most skilful physicians, he expired of an apoplexy at
Akshehr, the Antioch of Pisidia, about nine months after his
defeat. The victor dropped a tear over his grave: his body, with
royal pomp, was conveyed to the mausoleum which he had erected at
Boursa; and his son Mousa, after receiving a rich present of gold
and jewels, of horses and arms, was invested by a patent in red
ink with the kingdom of Anatolia.</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: The scepticism of Voltaire (Essai sur l'Histoire
G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, c. 88) is ready on this, as on every
occasion, to reject a popular tale, and to diminish the magnitude
of vice and virtue; and on most occasions his incredulity is
reasonable.]</p>

<p>Such is the portrait of a generous conqueror, which has been
extracted from his own memorials, and dedicated to his son and
grandson, nineteen years after his decease; ^47 and, at a time
when the truth was remembered by thousands, a manifest falsehood
would have implied a satire on his real conduct. Weighty indeed
is this evidence, adopted by all the Persian histories; ^48 yet
flattery, more especially in the East, is base and audacious; and
the harsh and ignominious treatment of Bajazet is attested by a
chain of witnesses, some of whom shall be produced in the order
of their time and country. <strong>1.</strong> The reader has not
forgot the garrison of French, whom the marshal Boucicault left
behind him for the defence of Constantinople. They were on the
spot to receive the earliest and most faithful intelligence of
the overthrow of their great adversary; and it is more than
probable, that some of them accompanied the Greek embassy to the
camp of Tamerlane. From their account, the
<strong><em>hardships</em></strong> of the prison and death of
Bajazet are affirmed by the marshal's servant and historian,
within the distance of seven years. ^49 <strong>2.</strong> The
name of Poggius the Italian ^50 is deservedly famous among the
revivers of learning in the fifteenth century. His elegant
dialogue on the vicissitudes of fortune ^51 was composed in his
fiftieth year, twenty-eight years after the Turkish victory of
Tamerlane; ^52 whom he celebrates as not inferior to the
illustrious Barbarians of antiquity. Of his exploits and
discipline Poggius was informed by several ocular witnesses; nor
does he forget an example so apposite to his theme as the Ottoman
monarch, whom the Scythian confined like a wild beast in an iron
cage, and exhibited a spectacle to Asia. I might add the
authority of two Italian chronicles, perhaps of an earlier date,
which would prove at least that the same story, whether false or
true, was imported into Europe with the first tidings of the
revolution. ^53 <strong>3.</strong> At the time when Poggius
flourished at Rome, Ahmed Ebn Arabshah composed at Damascus the
florid and malevolent history of Timour, for which he had
collected materials in his journeys over Turkey and Tartary. ^54
Without any possible correspondence between the Latin and the
Arabian writer, they agree in the fact of the iron cage; and
their agreement is a striking proof of their common veracity.
Ahmed Arabshah likewise relates another outrage, which Bajazet
endured, of a more domestic and tender nature. His indiscreet
mention of women and divorces was deeply resented by the jealous
Tartar: in the feast of victory the wine was served by female
cupbearers, and the sultan beheld his own concubines and wives
confounded among the slaves, and exposed without a veil to the
eyes of intemperance. To escape a similar indignity, it is said
that his successors, except in a single instance, have abstained
from legitimate nuptials; and the Ottoman practice and belief, at
least in the sixteenth century, is asserted by the observing
Busbequius, ^55 ambassador from the court of Vienna to the great
Soliman. <strong>4.</strong> Such is the separation of language,
that the testimony of a Greek is not less independent than that
of a Latin or an Arab. I suppress the names of Chalcondyles and
Ducas, who flourished in the latter period, and who speak in a
less positive tone; but more attention is due to George Phranza,
^56 protovestiare of the last emperors, and who was born a year
before the battle of Angora. Twenty-two years after that event,
he was sent ambassador to Amurath the Second; and the historian
might converse with some veteran Janizaries, who had been made
prisoners with the sultan, and had themselves seen him in his
iron cage. 5. The last evidence, in every sense, is that of the
Turkish annals, which have been consulted or transcribed by
Leunclavius, Pocock, and Cantemir. ^57 They unanimously deplore
the captivity of the iron cage; and some credit may be allowed to
national historians, who cannot stigmatize the Tartar without
uncovering the shame of their king and country.</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: See the History of Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 49,
52, 53, 59, 60.) This work was finished at Shiraz, in the year
1424, and dedicated to Sultan Ibrahim, the son of Sharokh, the
son of Timour, who reigned in Farsistan in his father's
lifetime.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: After the perusal of Khondemir, Ebn Schounah,
&amp;c., the learned D'Herbelot (Bibliot. Orientale, p. 882) may
affirm, that this fable is not mentioned in the most authentic
histories; but his denial of the visible testimony of Arabshah
leaves some room to suspect his accuracy.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Et fut lui-m&ecirc;me (Bajazet) pris, et
men&eacute; en prison, en laquelle mourut de <strong><em>dure
mort!</em></strong> M&eacute;moires de Boucicault, P. i. c. 37.
These Memoirs were composed while the marshal was still governor
of Genoa, from whence he was expelled in the year 1409, by a
popular insurrection, (Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. xii. p.
473, 474.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The reader will find a satisfactory account of
the life and writings of Poggius in the Poggiana, an entertaining
work of M. Lenfant, and in the Bibliotheca Latina Medi&aelig; et
Infim&aelig; &AElig;tatis of Fabricius, (tom. v. p. 305--308.)
Poggius was born in the year 1380, and died in 1459.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: The dialogue de Varietate Fortun&aelig;, (of
which a complete and elegant edition has been published at Paris
in 1723, in 4to.,) was composed a short time before the death of
Pope Martin V., (p. 5,) and consequently about the end of the
year 1430.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: See a splendid and eloquent encomium of
Tamerlane, p. 36--39 ipse enim novi (says Poggius) qui fuere in
ejus castris . . . . Regem vivum cepit, cave&acirc;que in modum
fer&aelig; inclusum per omnem Asian circumtulit egregium
admirandumque spectaculum fortun&aelig;.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: The Chronicon Tarvisianum, (in Muratori, Script.
Rerum Italicarum tom. xix. p. 800,) and the Annales Estenses,
(tom. xviii. p. 974.) The two authors, Andrea de Redusiis de
Quero, and James de Delayto, were both contemporaries, and both
chancellors, the one of Trevigi, the other of Ferrara. The
evidence of the former is the most positive.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: See Arabshah, tom. ii. c. 28, 34. He travelled
in regiones Rum&aelig;as, A. H. 839, (A.D. 1435, July 27,) tom.
i. c. 2, p. 13.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: Busbequius in Legatione Turcic&acirc;, epist. i.
p. 52. Yet his respectable authority is somewhat shaken by the
subsequent marriages of Amurath II. with a Servian, and of
Mahomet II. with an Asiatic, princess, (Cantemir, p. 83,
93.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: See the testimony of George Phranza, (l. i. c.
29,) and his life in Hanckius (de Script. Byzant. P. i. c. 40.)
Chalcondyles and Ducas speak in general terms of Bajazet's
<strong><em>chains</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Annales Leunclav. p. 321. Pocock, Prolegomen. ad
Abulpharag Dynast. Cantemir, p. 55. *</p>

<p>Note: * Von Hammer, p. 318, cites several authorities unknown
to Gibbon. -- M.]</p>

<p>From these opposite premises, a fair and moderate conclusion
may be deduced. I am satisfied that Sherefeddin Ali has
faithfully described the first ostentatious interview, in which
the conqueror, whose spirits were harmonized by success, affected
the character of generosity. But his mind was insensibly
alienated by the unseasonable arrogance of Bajazet; the
complaints of his enemies, the Anatolian princes, were just and
vehement; and Timour betrayed a design of leading his royal
captive in triumph to Samarcand. An attempt to facilitate his
escape, by digging a mine under the tent, provoked the Mogul
emperor to impose a harsher restraint; and in his perpetual
marches, an iron cage on a wagon might be invented, not as a
wanton insult, but as a rigorous precaution. Timour had read in
some fabulous history a similar treatment of one of his
predecessors, a king of Persia; and Bajazet was condemned to
represent the person, and expiate the guilt, of the Roman
C&aelig;sar ^58 ^* But the strength of his mind and body fainted
under the trial, and his premature death might, without
injustice, be ascribed to the severity of Timour. He warred not
with the dead: a tear and a sepulchre were all that he could
bestow on a captive who was delivered from his power; and if
Mousa, the son of Bajazet, was permitted to reign over the ruins
of Boursa, the greatest part of the province of Anatolia had been
restored by the conqueror to their lawful sovereigns.</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Sapor, king of Persia, had been made prisoner,
and enclosed in the figure of a cow's hide by Maximian or
Galerius C&aelig;sar. Such is the fable related by Eutychius,
(Annal. tom. i. p. 421, vers. Pocock. The recollection of the
true history (Decline and Fall, &amp;c., vol. ii. p 140--152)
will teach us to appreciate the knowledge of the Orientals of the
ages which precede the Hegira.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Von Hammer's explanation of this contested point
is both simple and satisfactory. It originates in a mistake in
the meaning of the Turkish word kafe, which means a covered
litter or palanquin drawn by two horses, and is generally used to
convey the harem of an Eastern monarch. In such a litter, with
the lattice-work made of iron, Bajazet either chose or was
constrained to travel. This was either mistaken for, or
transformed by, ignorant relaters into a cage. The European
Schiltberger, the two oldest of the Turkish historians, and the
most valuable of the later compilers, Seadeddin, describe this
litter. Seadeddin discusses the question with some degree of
historical criticism, and ascribes the choice of such a vehicle
to the indignant state of Bajazet's mind, which would not brook
the sight of his Tartar conquerors. Von Hammer, p. 320. --
M.]</p>

<p>From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf, and from the
Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of
Timour: his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless,
and his zeal might aspire to conquer and convert the Christian
kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He
touched the utmost verge of the land; but an insuperable, though
narrow, sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia;
^59 and the lord of so many <strong><em>tomans</em></strong>, or
myriads, of horse, was not master of a single galley. The two
passages of the Bosphorus and Hellespont, of Constantinople and
Gallipoli, were possessed, the one by the Christians, the other
by the Turks. On this great occasion, they forgot the difference
of religion, to act with union and firmness in the common cause:
the double straits were guarded with ships and fortifications;
and they separately withheld the transports which Timour demanded
of either nation, under the pretence of attacking their enemy. At
the same time, they soothed his pride with tributary gifts and
suppliant embassies, and prudently tempted him to retreat with
the honors of victory. Soliman, the son of Bajazet, implored his
clemency for his father and himself; accepted, by a red patent,
the investiture of the kingdom of Romania, which he already held
by the sword; and reiterated his ardent wish, of casting himself
in person at the feet of the king of the world. The Greek emperor
^60 (either John or Manuel) submitted to pay the same tribute
which he had stipulated with the Turkish sultan, and ratified the
treaty by an oath of allegiance, from which he could absolve his
conscience so soon as the Mogul arms had retired from Anatolia.
But the fears and fancy of nations ascribed to the ambitious
Tamerlane a new design of vast and romantic compass; a design of
subduing Egypt and Africa, marching from the Nile to the Atlantic
Ocean, entering Europe by the Straits of Gibraltar, and, after
imposing his yoke on the kingdoms of Christendom, of returning
home by the deserts of Russia and Tartary. This remote, and
perhaps imaginary, danger was averted by the submission of the
sultan of Egypt: the honors of the prayer and the coin attested
at Cairo the supremacy of Timour; and a rare gift of a
<strong><em>giraffe</em></strong>, or camelopard, and nine
ostriches, represented at Samarcand the tribute of the African
world. Our imagination is not less astonished by the portrait of
a Mogul, who, in his camp before Smyrna, meditates, and almost
accomplishes, the invasion of the Chinese empire. ^61 Timour was
urged to this enterprise by national honor and religious zeal.
The torrents which he had shed of Mussulman blood could be
expiated only by an equal destruction of the infidels; and as he
now stood at the gates of paradise, he might best secure his
glorious entrance by demolishing the idols of China, founding
mosques in every city, and establishing the profession of faith
in one God, and his prophet Mahomet. The recent expulsion of the
house of Zingis was an insult on the Mogul name; and the
disorders of the empire afforded the fairest opportunity for
revenge. The illustrious Hongvou, founder of the dynasty of
<strong><em>Ming</em></strong>, died four years before the battle
of Angora; and his grandson, a weak and unfortunate youth, was
burnt in his palace, after a million of Chinese had perished in
the civil war. ^62 Before he evacuated Anatolia, Timour
despatched beyond the Sihoon a numerous army, or rather colony,
of his old and new subjects, to open the road, to subdue the
Pagan Calmucks and Mungals, and to found cities and magazines in
the desert; and, by the diligence of his lieutenant, he soon
received a perfect map and description of the unknown regions,
from the source of the Irtish to the wall of China. During these
preparations, the emperor achieved the final conquest of Georgia;
passed the winter on the banks of the Araxes; appeased the
troubles of Persia; and slowly returned to his capital, after a
campaign of four years and nine months.</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Arabshah (tom. ii. c. 25) describes, like a
curious traveller, the Straits of Gallipoli and Constantinople.
To acquire a just idea of these events, I have compared the
narratives and prejudices of the Moguls, Turks, Greeks, and
Arabians. The Spanish ambassador mentions this hostile union of
the Christians and Ottomans, (Vie de Timour, p. 96.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: Since the name of C&aelig;sar had been
transferred to the sultans of Roum, the Greek princes of
Constantinople (Sherefeddin, l. v. c. 54 were confounded with the
Christian <strong><em>lords</em></strong> of Gallipoli,
Thessalonica, &amp;c. under the title of
<strong><em>Tekkur</em></strong>, which is derived by corruption
from the genitive tou kuriou, (Cantemir, p. 51.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: See Sherefeddin, l. v. c. 4, who marks, in a
just itinerary, the road to China, which Arabshah (tom. ii. c.
33) paints in vague and rhetorical colors.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Synopsis Hist. Sinic&aelig;, p. 74--76, (in the
ivth part of the Relations de Thevenot,) Duhalde, Hist. de la
Chine, (tom. i. p. 507, 508, folio edition;) and for the
Chronology of the Chinese emperors, De Guignes, Hist. des Huns,
(tom. i. p. 71, 72.)]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXV: Elevation Of Timour Or Tamerlane, And
His Death. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>On the throne of Samarcand, ^63 he displayed, in a short
repose, his magnificence and power; listened to the complaints of
the people; distributed a just measure of rewards and
punishments; employed his riches in the architecture of palaces
and temples; and gave audience to the ambassadors of Egypt,
Arabia, India, Tartary, Russia, and Spain, the last of whom
presented a suit of tapestry which eclipsed the pencil of the
Oriental artists. The marriage of six of the emperor's grandsons
was esteemed an act of religion as well as of paternal
tenderness; and the pomp of the ancient caliphs was revived in
their nuptials. They were celebrated in the gardens of Canighul,
decorated with innumerable tents and pavilions, which displayed
the luxury of a great city and the spoils of a victorious camp.
Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens; the
plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every
liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited:
the orders of the state, and the nations of the earth, were
marshalled at the royal banquet; nor were the ambassadors of
Europe (says the haughty Persian) excluded from the feast; since
even the <strong><em>casses</em></strong>, the smallest of fish,
find their place in the ocean. ^64 The public joy was testified
by illuminations and masquerades; the trades of Samarcand passed
in review; and every trade was emulous to execute some quaint
device, some marvellous pageant, with the materials of their
peculiar art. After the marriage contracts had been ratified by
the cadhis, the bride-grooms and their brides retired to the
nuptial chambers: nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion,
they were dressed and undressed; and at each change of apparel,
pearls and rubies were showered on their heads, and
contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general
indulgence was proclaimed: every law was relaxed, every pleasure
was allowed; the people was free, the sovereign was idle; and the
historian of Timour may remark, that, after devoting fifty years
to the attainment of empire, the only happy period of his life
were the two months in which he ceased to exercise his power. But
he was soon awakened to the cares of government and war. The
standard was unfurled for the invasion of China: the emirs made
their report of two hundred thousand, the select and veteran
soldiers of Iran and Touran: their baggage and provisions were
transported by five hundred great wagons, and an immense train of
horses and camels; and the troops might prepare for a long
absence, since more than six months were employed in the tranquil
journey of a caravan from Samarcand to Pekin. Neither age, nor
the severity of the winter, could retard the impatience of
Timour; he mounted on horseback, passed the Sihoon on the ice,
marched seventy-six parasangs, three hundred miles, from his
capital, and pitched his last camp in the neighborhood of Otrar,
where he was expected by the angel of death. Fatigue, and the
indiscreet use of iced water, accelerated the progress of his
fever; and the conqueror of Asia expired in the seventieth year
of his age, thirty-five years after he had ascended the throne of
Zagatai. His designs were lost; his armies were disbanded; China
was saved; and fourteen years after his decease, the most
powerful of his children sent an embassy of friendship and
commerce to the court of Pekin. ^65</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: For the return, triumph, and death of Timour,
see Sherefeddin (l. vi. c. 1--30) and Arabshah, (tom. ii. c.
36--47.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: Sherefeddin (l. vi. c. 24) mentions the
ambassadors of one of the most potent sovereigns of Europe. We
know that it was Henry III. king of Castile; and the curious
relation of his two embassies is still extant, (Mariana, Hist.
Hispan. l. xix. c. 11, tom. ii. p. 329, 330. Avertissement
&agrave; l'Hist. de Timur Bec, p. 28--33.) There appears likewise
to have been some correspondence between the Mogul emperor and
the court of Charles VII. king of France, (Histoire de France,
par Velly et Villaret, tom. xii. p. 336.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: See the translation of the Persian account of
their embassy, a curious and original piece, (in the ivth part of
the Relations de Thevenot.) They presented the emperor of China
with an old horse which Timour had formerly rode. It was in the
year 1419 that they departed from the court of Herat, to which
place they returned in 1422 from Pekin.]</p>

<p>The fame of Timour has pervaded the East and West: his
posterity is still invested with the Imperial
<strong><em>title</em></strong>; and the admiration of his
subjects, who revered him almost as a deity, may be justified in
some degree by the praise or confession of his bitterest enemies.
^66 Although he was lame of a hand and foot, his form and stature
were not unworthy of his rank; and his vigorous health, so
essential to himself and to the world, was corroborated by
temperance and exercise. In his familiar discourse he was grave
and modest, and if he was ignorant of the Arabic language, he
spoke with fluency and elegance the Persian and Turkish idioms.
It was his delight to converse with the learned on topics of
history and science; and the amusement of his leisure hours was
the game of chess, which he improved or corrupted with new
refinements. ^67 In his religion he was a zealous, though not
perhaps an orthodox, Mussulman; ^68 but his sound understanding
may tempt us to believe, that a superstitious reverence for omens
and prophecies, for saints and astrologers, was only affected as
an instrument of policy. In the government of a vast empire, he
stood alone and absolute, without a rebel to oppose his power, a
favorite to seduce his affections, or a minister to mislead his
judgment. It was his firmest maxim, that whatever might be the
consequence, the word of the prince should never be disputed or
recalled; but his foes have maliciously observed, that the
commands of anger and destruction were more strictly executed
than those of beneficence and favor. His sons and grandsons, of
whom Timour left six-and-thirty at his decease, were his first
and most submissive subjects; and whenever they deviated from
their duty, they were corrected, according to the laws of Zingis,
with the bastinade, and afterwards restored to honor and command.
Perhaps his heart was not devoid of the social virtues; perhaps
he was not incapable of loving his friends and pardoning his
enemies; but the rules of morality are founded on the public
interest; and it may be sufficient to applaud the
<strong><em>wisdom</em></strong> of a monarch, for the liberality
by which he is not impoverished, and for the justice by which he
is strengthened and enriched. To maintain the harmony of
authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the
weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from
his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain
the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the
husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal
and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without
increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince; but, in
the discharge of these duties, he finds an ample and immediate
recompense. Timour might boast, that, at his accession to the
throne, Asia was the prey of anarchy and rapine, whilst under his
prosperous monarchy a child, fearless and unhurt, might carry a
purse of gold from the East to the West. Such was his confidence
of merit, that from this reformation he derived an excuse for his
victories, and a title to universal dominion. The four following
observations will serve to appreciate his claim to the public
gratitude; and perhaps we shall conclude, that the Mogul emperor
was rather the scourge than the benefactor of mankind.
<strong>1.</strong> If some partial disorders, some local
oppressions, were healed by the sword of Timour, the remedy was
far more pernicious than the disease. By their rapine, cruelty,
and discord, the petty tyrants of Persia might afflict their
subjects; but whole nations were crushed under the footsteps of
the reformer. The ground which had been occupied by flourishing
cities was often marked by his abominable trophies, by columns,
or pyramids, of human heads. Astracan, Carizme, Delhi, Ispahan,
Bagdad, Aleppo, Damascus, Boursa, Smyrna, and a thousand others,
were sacked, or burnt, or utterly destroyed, in his presence, and
by his troops: and perhaps his conscience would have been
startled, if a priest or philosopher had dared to number the
millions of victims whom he had sacrificed to the establishment
of peace and order. ^69 <strong>2.</strong> His most destructive
wars were rather inroads than conquests. He invaded Turkestan,
Kipzak, Russia, Hindostan, Syria, Anatolia, Armenia, and Georgia,
without a hope or a desire of preserving those distant provinces.
From thence he departed laden with spoil; but he left behind him
neither troops to awe the contumacious, nor magistrates to
protect the obedient, natives. When he had broken the fabric of
their ancient government, he abandoned them to the evils which
his invasion had aggravated or caused; nor were these evils
compensated by any present or possible benefits.
<strong>3.</strong> The kingdoms of Transoxiana and Persia were
the proper field which he labored to cultivate and adorn, as the
perpetual inheritance of his family. But his peaceful labors were
often interrupted, and sometimes blasted, by the absence of the
conqueror. While he triumphed on the Volga or the Ganges, his
servants, and even his sons, forgot their master and their duty.
The public and private injuries were poorly redressed by the
tardy rigor of inquiry and punishment; and we must be content to
praise the <strong><em>Institutions</em></strong> of Timour, as
the specious idea of a perfect monarchy. <strong>4.</strong>
Whatsoever might be the blessings of his administration, they
evaporated with his life. To reign, rather than to govern, was
the ambition of his children and grandchildren; ^70 the enemies
of each other and of the people. A fragment of the empire was
upheld with some glory by Sharokh, his youngest son; but after
<strong><em>his</em></strong> decease, the scene was again
involved in darkness and blood; and before the end of a century,
Transoxiana and Persia were trampled by the Uzbeks from the
north, and the Turkmans of the black and white sheep. The race of
Timour would have been extinct, if a hero, his descendant in the
fifth degree, had not fled before the Uzbek arms to the conquest
of Hindostan. His successors (the great Moguls ^71) extended
their sway from the mountains of Cashmir to Cape Comorin, and
from Candahar to the Gulf of Bengal. Since the reign of
Aurungzebe, their empire had been dissolved; their treasures of
Delhi have been rifled by a Persian robber; and the richest of
their kingdoms is now possessed by a company of Christian
merchants, of a remote island in the Northern Ocean.</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: From Arabshah, tom. ii. c. 96. The bright or
softer colors are borrowed from Sherefeddin, D'Herbelot, and the
Institutions.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: His new system was multiplied from 32 pieces and
64 squares to 56 pieces and 110 or 130 squares; but, except in
his court, the old game has been thought sufficiently elaborate.
The Mogul emperor was rather pleased than hurt with the victory
of a subject: a chess player will feel the value of this
encomium!]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: See Sherefeddin, l. v. c. 15, 25. Arabshah tom.
ii. c. 96, p. 801, 803) approves the impiety of Timour and the
Moguls, who almost preferred to the Koran the
<strong><em>Yacsa</em></strong>, or Law of Zingis, (cui Deus
maledicat;) nor will he believe that Sharokh had abolished the
use and authority of that Pagan code.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: Besides the bloody passages of this narrative, I
must refer to an anticipation in the third volume of the Decline
and Fall, which in a single note (p. 234, note 25) accumulates
nearly 300,000 heads of the monuments of his cruelty. Except in
Rowe's play on the fifth of November, I did not expect to hear of
Timour's amiable moderation (White's preface, p. 7.) Yet I can
excuse a generous enthusiasm in the reader, and still more in the
editor, of the <strong><em>Institutions</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: Consult the last chapters of Sherefeddin and
Arabshah, and M. De Guignes, (Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. l. xx.)
Fraser's History of Nadir Shah, (p. 1--62.) The story of Timour's
descendants is imperfectly told; and the second and third parts
of Sherefeddin are unknown.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: Shah Allum, the present Mogul, is in the
fourteenth degree from Timour, by Miran Shah, his third son. See
the second volume of Dow's History of Hindostan.]</p>

<p>Far different was the fate of the Ottoman monarchy. The massy
trunk was bent to the ground, but no sooner did the hurricane
pass away, than it again rose with fresh vigor and more lively
vegetation. When Timour, in every sense, had evacuated Anatolia,
he left the cities without a palace, a treasure, or a king. The
open country was overspread with hordes of shepherds and robbers
of Tartar or Turkman origin; the recent conquests of Bajazet were
restored to the emirs, one of whom, in base revenge, demolished
his sepulchre; and his five sons were eager, by civil discord, to
consume the remnant of their patrimony. I shall enumerate their
names in the order of their age and actions. ^72
<strong>1.</strong> It is doubtful, whether I relate the story of
the true <strong><em>Mustapha</em></strong>, or of an impostor
who personated that lost prince. He fought by his father's side
in the battle of Angora: but when the captive sultan was
permitted to inquire for his children, Mousa alone could be
found; and the Turkish historians, the slaves of the triumphant
faction, are persuaded that his brother was confounded among the
slain. If Mustapha escaped from that disastrous field, he was
concealed twelve years from his friends and enemies; till he
emerged in Thessaly, and was hailed by a numerous party, as the
son and successor of Bajazet. His first defeat would have been
his last, had not the true, or false, Mustapha been saved by the
Greeks, and restored, after the decease of his brother Mahomet,
to liberty and empire. A degenerate mind seemed to argue his
spurious birth; and if, on the throne of Adrianople, he was
adored as the Ottoman sultan, his flight, his fetters, and an
ignominious gibbet, delivered the impostor to popular contempt. A
similar character and claim was asserted by several rival
pretenders: thirty persons are said to have suffered under the
name of Mustapha; and these frequent executions may perhaps
insinuate, that the Turkish court was not perfectly secure of the
death of the lawful prince. <strong>2.</strong> After his
father's captivity, Isa ^73 reigned for some time in the
neighborhood of Angora, Sinope, and the Black Sea; and his
ambassadors were dismissed from the presence of Timour with fair
promises and honorable gifts. But their master was soon deprived
of his province and life, by a jealous brother, the sovereign of
Amasia; and the final event suggested a pious allusion, that the
law of Moses and Jesus, of <strong><em>Isa</em></strong> and
<strong><em>Mousa</em></strong>, had been abrogated by the
greater Mahomet. <strong>3.</strong>
<strong><em>Soliman</em></strong> is not numbered in the list of
the Turkish emperors: yet he checked the victorious progress of
the Moguls; and after their departure, united for a while the
thrones of Adrianople and Boursa. In war he was brave, active,
and fortunate; his courage was softened by clemency; but it was
likewise inflamed by presumption, and corrupted by intemperance
and idleness. He relaxed the nerves of discipline, in a
government where either the subject or the sovereign must
continually tremble: his vices alienated the chiefs of the army
and the law; and his daily drunkenness, so contemptible in a
prince and a man, was doubly odious in a disciple of the prophet.
In the slumber of intoxication he was surprised by his brother
Mousa; and as he fled from Adrianople towards the Byzantine
capital, Soliman was overtaken and slain in a bath, ^* after a
reign of seven years and ten months. <strong>4.</strong> The
investiture of Mousa degraded him as the slave of the Moguls: his
tributary kingdom of Anatolia was confined within a narrow limit,
nor could his broken militia and empty treasury contend with the
hardy and veteran bands of the sovereign of Romania. Mousa fled
in disguise from the palace of Boursa; traversed the Propontis in
an open boat; wandered over the Walachian and Servian hills; and
after some vain attempts, ascended the throne of Adrianople, so
recently stained with the blood of Soliman. In a reign of three
years and a half, his troops were victorious against the
Christians of Hungary and the Morea; but Mousa was ruined by his
timorous disposition and unseasonable clemency. After resigning
the sovereignty of Anatolia, he fell a victim to the perfidy of
his ministers, and the superior ascendant of his brother Mahomet.
<strong>5.</strong>The final victory of Mahomet was the just
recompense of his prudence and moderation. Before his father's
captivity, the royal youth had been intrusted with the government
of Amasia, thirty days' journey from Constantinople, and the
Turkish frontier against the Christians of Trebizond and Georgia.
The castle, in Asiatic warfare, was esteemed impregnable; and the
city of Amasia, ^74 which is equally divided by the River Iris,
rises on either side in the form of an amphitheatre, and
represents on a smaller scale the image of Bagdad. In his rapid
career, Timour appears to have overlooked this obscure and
contumacious angle of Anatolia; and Mahomet, without provoking
the conqueror, maintained his silent independence, and chased
from the province the last stragglers of the Tartar host. ^! He
relieved himself from the dangerous neighborhood of Isa; but in
the contests of their more powerful brethren his firm neutrality
was respected; till, after the triumph of Mousa, he stood forth
the heir and avenger of the unfortunate Soliman. Mahomet obtained
Anatolia by treaty, and Romania by arms; and the soldier who
presented him with the head of Mousa was rewarded as the
benefactor of his king and country. The eight years of his sole
and peaceful reign were usefully employed in banishing the vices
of civil discord, and restoring on a firmer basis the fabric of
the Ottoman monarchy. His last care was the choice of two
viziers, Bajazet and Ibrahim, ^75 who might guide the youth of
his son Amurath; and such was their union and prudence, that they
concealed above forty days the emperor's death, till the arrival
of his successor in the palace of Boursa. A new war was kindled
in Europe by the prince, or impostor, Mustapha; the first vizier
lost his army and his head; but the more fortunate Ibrahim, whose
name and family are still revered, extinguished the last
pretender to the throne of Bajazet, and closed the scene of
domestic hostility.</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: The civil wars, from the death of Bajazet to
that of Mustapha, are related, according to the Turks, by
Demetrius Cantemir, (p. 58--82.) Of the Greeks, Chalcondyles, (l.
iv. and v.,) Phranza, (l. i. c. 30--32,) and Ducas, (c. 18--27,
the last is the most copious and best informed.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: Arabshah, (tom. ii. c. 26,) whose testimony on
this occasion is weighty and valuable. The existence of Isa
(unknown to the Turks) is likewise confirmed by Sherefeddin, (l.
v. c. 57.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: He escaped from the bath, and fled towards
Constantinople. Five mothers from a village, Dugundschi, whose
inhabitants had suffered severely from the exactions of his
officers, recognized and followed him. Soliman shot two of them,
the others discharged their arrows in their turn the sultan fell
and his head was cut off. V. Hammer, vol. i. p. 349. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: Arabshah, loc. citat. Abulfeda, Geograph. tab.
xvii. p. 302. Busbequius, epist. i. p. 96, 97, in Itinere C. P.
et Amasiano.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: See his nine battles. V. Hammer, p. 339. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: The virtues of Ibrahim are praised by a
contemporary Greek, (Ducas, c. 25.) His descendants are the sole
nobles in Turkey: they content themselves with the administration
of his pious foundations, are excused from public offices, and
receive two annual visits from the sultan, (Cantemir, p.
76.)]</p>

<p>In these conflicts, the wisest Turks, and indeed the body of
the nation, were strongly attached to the unity of the empire;
and Romania and Anatolia, so often torn asunder by private
ambition, were animated by a strong and invincible tendency of
cohesion. Their efforts might have instructed the Christian
powers; and had they occupied, with a confederate fleet, the
Straits of Gallipoli, the Ottomans, at least in Europe, must have
been speedily annihilated. But the schism of the West, and the
factions and wars of France and England, diverted the Latins from
this generous enterprise: they enjoyed the present respite,
without a thought of futurity; and were often tempted by a
momentary interest to serve the common enemy of their religion. A
colony of Genoese, ^76 which had been planted at Phoc&aelig;a ^77
on the Ionian coast, was enriched by the lucrative monopoly of
alum; ^78 and their tranquillity, under the Turkish empire, was
secured by the annual payment of tribute. In the last civil war
of the Ottomans, the Genoese governor, Adorno, a bold and
ambitious youth, embraced the party of Amurath; and undertook,
with seven stout galleys, to transport him from Asia to Europe.
The sultan and five hundred guards embarked on board the
admiral's ship; which was manned by eight hundred of the bravest
Franks. His life and liberty were in their hands; nor can we,
without reluctance, applaud the fidelity of Adorno, who, in the
midst of the passage, knelt before him, and gratefully accepted a
discharge of his arrears of tribute. They landed in sight of
Mustapha and Gallipoli; two thousand Italians, armed with lances
and battle-axes, attended Amurath to the conquest of Adrianople;
and this venal service was soon repaid by the ruin of the
commerce and colony of Phoc&aelig;a.</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: See Pachymer, (l. v. c. 29,) Nicephorus
Gregoras, (l. ii. c. 1,) Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 57,) and Ducas,
(c. 25.) The last of these, a curious and careful observer, is
entitled, from his birth and station, to particular credit in all
that concerns Ionia and the islands. Among the nations that
resorted to New Phoc&aelig;a, he mentions the English;
('Igglhnoi;) an early evidence of Mediterranean trade.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: For the spirit of navigation, and freedom of
ancient Phoc&aelig;a, or rather the Phoc&aelig;ans, consult the
first book of Herodotus, and the Geographical Index of his last
and learned French translator, M. Larcher (tom. vii. p.
299.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: Phoc&aelig;a is not enumerated by Pliny (Hist.
Nat. xxxv. 52) among the places productive of alum: he reckons
Egypt as the first, and for the second the Isle of Melos, whose
alum mines are described by Tournefort, (tom. i. lettre iv.,) a
traveller and a naturalist. After the loss of Phoc&aelig;a, the
Genoese, in 1459, found that useful mineral in the Isle of
Ischia, (Ismael. Bouillaud, ad Ducam, c. 25.)]</p>

<p>If Timour had generously marched at the request, and to the
relief, of the Greek emperor, he might be entitled to the praise
and gratitude of the Christians. ^79 But a Mussulman, who carried
into Georgia the sword of persecution, and respected the holy
warfare of Bajazet, was not disposed to pity or succor the
<strong><em>idolaters</em></strong> of Europe. The Tartar
followed the impulse of ambition; and the deliverance of
Constantinople was the accidental consequence. When Manuel
abdicated the government, it was his prayer, rather than his
hope, that the ruin of the church and state might be delayed
beyond his unhappy days; and after his return from a western
pilgrimage, he expected every hour the news of the sad
catastrophe. On a sudden, he was astonished and rejoiced by the
intelligence of the retreat, the overthrow, and the captivity of
the Ottoman. Manuel ^80 immediately sailed from Modon in the
Morea; ascended the throne of Constantinople, and dismissed his
blind competitor to an easy exile in the Isle of Lesbos. The
ambassadors of the son of Bajazet were soon introduced to his
presence; but their pride was fallen, their tone was modest: they
were awed by the just apprehension, lest the Greeks should open
to the Moguls the gates of Europe. Soliman saluted the emperor by
the name of father; solicited at his hands the government or gift
of Romania; and promised to deserve his favor by inviolable
friendship, and the restitution of Thessalonica, with the most
important places along the Strymon, the Propontis, and the Black
Sea. The alliance of Soliman exposed the emperor to the enmity
and revenge of Mousa: the Turks appeared in arms before the gates
of Constantinople; but they were repulsed by sea and land; and
unless the city was guarded by some foreign mercenaries, the
Greeks must have wondered at their own triumph. But, instead of
prolonging the division of the Ottoman powers, the policy or
passion of Manuel was tempted to assist the most formidable of
the sons of Bajazet. He concluded a treaty with Mahomet, whose
progress was checked by the insuperable barrier of Gallipoli: the
sultan and his troops were transported over the Bosphorus; he was
hospitably entertained in the capital; and his successful sally
was the first step to the conquest of Romania. The ruin was
suspended by the prudence and moderation of the conqueror: he
faithfully discharged his own obligations and those of Soliman,
respected the laws of gratitude and peace; and left the emperor
guardian of his two younger sons, in the vain hope of saving them
from the jealous cruelty of their brother Amurath. But the
execution of his last testament would have offended the national
honor and religion; and the divan unanimously pronounced, that
the royal youths should never be abandoned to the custody and
education of a Christian dog. On this refusal, the Byzantine
councils were divided; but the age and caution of Manuel yielded
to the presumption of his son John; and they unsheathed a
dangerous weapon of revenge, by dismissing the true or false
Mustapha, who had long been detained as a captive and hostage,
and for whose maintenance they received an annual pension of
three hundred thousand aspers. ^81 At the door of his prison,
Mustapha subscribed to every proposal; and the keys of Gallipoli,
or rather of Europe, were stipulated as the price of his
deliverance. But no sooner was he seated on the throne of
Romania, than he dismissed the Greek ambassadors with a smile of
contempt, declaring, in a pious tone, that, at the day of
judgment, he would rather answer for the violation of an oath,
than for the surrender of a Mussulman city into the hands of the
infidels. The emperor was at once the enemy of the two rivals;
from whom he had sustained, and to whom he had offered, an
injury; and the victory of Amurath was followed, in the ensuing
spring, by the siege of Constantinople. ^82</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: The writer who has the most abused this fabulous
generosity, is our ingenious Sir William Temple, (his Works, vol.
iii. p. 349, 350, octavo edition,) that lover of exotic virtue.
After the conquest of Russia, &amp;c., and the passage of the
Danube, his Tartar hero relieves, visits, admires, and refuses
the city of Constantine. His flattering pencil deviates in every
line from the truth of history; yet his pleasing fictions are
more excusable than the gross errors of Cantemir.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: For the reigns of Manuel and John, of Mahomet I.
and Amurath II., see the Othman history of Cantemir, (p. 70--95,)
and the three Greeks, Chalcondyles, Phranza, and Ducas, who is
still superior to his rivals.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: The Turkish asper (from the Greek asproV) is, or
was, a piece of <strong><em>white</em></strong> or silver money,
at present much debased, but which was formerly equivalent to the
54th part, at least, of a Venetian ducat or sequin; and the
300,000 aspers, a princely allowance or royal tribute, may be
computed at 2500<strong><em>l</em></strong>. sterling, (Leunclav.
Pandect. Turc. p. 406--408.) *</p>

<p>Note: * According to Von Hammer, this calculation is much too
low. The asper was a century before the time of which writes, the
tenth part of a ducat; for the same tribute which the Byzantine
writers state at 300,000 aspers the Ottomans state at 30,000
ducats, about 15000l Note, vol. p. 636. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: For the siege of Constantinople in 1422, see the
particular and contemporary narrative of John Cananus, published
by Leo Allatius, at the end of his edition of Acropolita, (p.
188--199.)]</p>

<p>The religious merit of subduing the city of the C&aelig;sars
attracted from Asia a crowd of volunteers, who aspired to the
crown of martyrdom: their military ardor was inflamed by the
promise of rich spoils and beautiful females; and the sultan's
ambition was consecrated by the presence and prediction of Seid
Bechar, a descendant of the prophet, ^83 who arrived in the camp,
on a mule, with a venerable train of five hundred disciples. But
he might blush, if a fanatic could blush, at the failure of his
assurances. The strength of the walls resisted an army of two
hundred thousand Turks; their assaults were repelled by the
sallies of the Greeks and their foreign mercenaries; the old
resources of defence were opposed to the new engines of attack;
and the enthusiasm of the dervis, who was snatched to heaven in
visionary converse with Mahomet, was answered by the credulity of
the Christians, who <strong><em>beheld</em></strong> the Virgin
Mary, in a violet garment, walking on the rampart and animating
their courage. ^84 After a siege of two months, Amurath was
recalled to Boursa by a domestic revolt, which had been kindled
by Greek treachery, and was soon extinguished by the death of a
guiltless brother. While he led his Janizaries to new conquests
in Europe and Asia, the Byzantine empire was indulged in a
servile and precarious respite of thirty years. Manuel sank into
the grave; and John Pal&aelig;ologus was permitted to reign, for
an annual tribute of three hundred thousand aspers, and the
dereliction of almost all that he held beyond the suburbs of
Constantinople.</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: Cantemir, p. 80. Cananus, who describes Seid
Bechar, without naming him, supposes that the friend of Mahomet
assumed in his amours the privilege of a prophet, and that the
fairest of the Greek nuns were promised to the saint and his
disciples.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: For this miraculous apparition, Cananus appeals
to the Mussulman saint; but who will bear testimony for Seid
Bechar?]</p>

<p>In the establishment and restoration of the Turkish empire,
the first merit must doubtless be assigned to the personal
qualities of the sultans; since, in human life, the most
important scenes will depend on the character of a single actor.
By some shades of wisdom and virtue, they may be discriminated
from each other; but, except in a single instance, a period of
nine reigns, and two hundred and sixty-five years, is occupied,
from the elevation of Othman to the death of Soliman, by a rare
series of warlike and active princes, who impressed their
subjects with obedience and their enemies with terror. Instead of
the slothful luxury of the seraglio, the heirs of royalty were
educated in the council and the field: from early youth they were
intrusted by their fathers with the command of provinces and
armies; and this manly institution, which was often productive of
civil war, must have essentially contributed to the discipline
and vigor of the monarchy. The Ottomans cannot style themselves,
like the Arabian caliphs, the descendants or successors of the
apostle of God; and the kindred which they claim with the Tartar
khans of the house of Zingis appears to be founded in flattery
rather than in truth. ^85 Their origin is obscure; but their
sacred and indefeasible right, which no time can erase, and no
violence can infringe, was soon and unalterably implanted in the
minds of their subjects. A weak or vicious sultan may be deposed
and strangled; but his inheritance devolves to an infant or an
idiot: nor has the most daring rebel presumed to ascend the
throne of his lawful sovereign. ^86</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: See Ricaut, (l. i. c. 13.) The Turkish sultans
assume the title of khan. Yet Abulghazi is ignorant of his
Ottoman cousins.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: The third grand vizier of the name of Kiuperli,
who was slain at the battle of Salankanen in 1691, (Cantemir, p.
382,) presumed to say that all the successors of Soliman had been
fools or tyrants, and that it was time to abolish the race,
(Marsigli Stato Militaire, &amp;c., p. 28.) This political
heretic was a good Whig, and justified against the French
ambassador the revolution of England, (Mignot, Hist. des
Ottomans, tom. iii. p. 434.) His presumption condemns the
singular exception of continuing offices in the same family.]</p>

<p>While the transient dynasties of Asia have been continually
subverted by a crafty vizier in the palace, or a victorious
general in the camp, the Ottoman succession has been confirmed by
the practice of five centuries, and is now incorporated with the
vital principle of the Turkish nation.</p>

<p>To the spirit and constitution of that nation, a strong and
singular influence may, however, be ascribed. The primitive
subjects of Othman were the four hundred families of wandering
Turkmans, who had followed his ancestors from the Oxus to the
Sangar; and the plains of Anatolia are still covered with the
white and black tents of their rustic brethren. But this original
drop was dissolved in the mass of voluntary and vanquished
subjects, who, under the name of Turks, are united by the common
ties of religion, language, and manners. In the cities, from
Erzeroum to Belgrade, that national appellation is common to all
the Moslems, the first and most honorable inhabitants; but they
have abandoned, at least in Romania, the villages, and the
cultivation of the land, to the Christian peasants. In the
vigorous age of the Ottoman government, the Turks were themselves
excluded from all civil and military honors; and a servile class,
an artificial people, was raised by the discipline of education
to obey, to conquer, and to command. ^87 From the time of Orchan
and the first Amurath, the sultans were persuaded that a
government of the sword must be renewed in each generation with
new soldiers; and that such soldiers must be sought, not in
effeminate Asia, but among the hardy and warlike natives of
Europe. The provinces of Thrace, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria,
and Servia, became the perpetual seminary of the Turkish army;
and when the royal fifth of the captives was diminished by
conquest, an inhuman tax of the fifth child, or of every fifth
year, was rigorously levied on the Christian families. At the age
of twelve or fourteen years, the most robust youths were torn
from their parents; their names were enrolled in a book; and from
that moment they were clothed, taught, and maintained, for the
public service. According to the promise of their appearance,
they were selected for the royal schools of Boursa, Pera, and
Adrianople, intrusted to the care of the bashaws, or dispersed in
the houses of the Anatolian peasantry. It was the first care of
their masters to instruct them in the Turkish language: their
bodies were exercised by every labor that could fortify their
strength; they learned to wrestle, to leap, to run, to shoot with
the bow, and afterwards with the musket; till they were drafted
into the chambers and companies of the Janizaries, and severely
trained in the military or monastic discipline of the order. The
youths most conspicuous for birth, talents, and beauty, were
admitted into the inferior class of
<strong><em>Agiamoglans</em></strong>, or the more liberal rank
of <strong><em>Ichoglans</em></strong>, of whom the former were
attached to the palace, and the latter to the person, of the
prince. In four successive schools, under the rod of the white
eunuchs, the arts of horsemanship and of darting the javelin were
their daily exercise, while those of a more studious cast applied
themselves to the study of the Koran, and the knowledge of the
Arabic and Persian tongues. As they advanced in seniority and
merit, they were gradually dismissed to military, civil, and even
ecclesiastical employments: the longer their stay, the higher was
their expectation; till, at a mature period, they were admitted
into the number of the forty agas, who stood before the sultan,
and were promoted by his choice to the government of provinces
and the first honors of the empire. ^88 Such a mode of
institution was admirably adapted to the form and spirit of a
despotic monarchy. The ministers and generals were, in the
strictest sense, the slaves of the emperor, to whose bounty they
were indebted for their instruction and support. When they left
the seraglio, and suffered their beards to grow as the symbol of
enfranchisement, they found themselves in an important office,
without faction or friendship, without parents and without heirs,
dependent on the hand which had raised them from the dust, and
which, on the slightest displeasure, could break in pieces these
statues of glass, as they were aptly termed by the Turkish
proverb. ^89 In the slow and painful steps of education, their
characters and talents were unfolded to a discerning eye: the
<strong><em>man</em></strong>, naked and alone, was reduced to
the standard of his personal merit; and, if the sovereign had
wisdom to choose, he possessed a pure and boundless liberty of
choice. The Ottoman candidates were trained by the virtues of
abstinence to those of action; by the habits of submission to
those of command. A similar spirit was diffused among the troops;
and their silence and sobriety, their patience and modesty, have
extorted the reluctant praise of their Christian enemies. ^90 Nor
can the victory appear doubtful, if we compare the discipline and
exercise of the Janizaries with the pride of birth, the
independence of chivalry, the ignorance of the new levies, the
mutinous temper of the veterans, and the vices of intemperance
and disorder, which so long contaminated the armies of
Europe.</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: Chalcondyles (l. v.) and Ducas (c. 23) exhibit
the rude lineament of the Ottoman policy, and the transmutation
of Christian children into Turkish soldiers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: This sketch of the Turkish education and
discipline is chiefly borrowed from Ricaut's State of the Ottoman
Empire, the Stato Militaire del' Imperio Ottomano of Count
Marsigli, (in Haya, 1732, in folio,) and a description of the
Seraglio, approved by Mr. Greaves himself, a curious traveller,
and inserted in the second volume of his works.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: From the series of cxv. viziers, till the siege
of Vienna, (Marsigli, p. 13,) their place may be valued at three
years and a half purchase.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: See the entertaining and judicious letters of
Busbequius.]</p>

<p>The only hope of salvation for the Greek empire, and the
adjacent kingdoms, would have been some more powerful weapon,
some discovery in the art of war, that would give them a decisive
superiority over their Turkish foes. Such a weapon was in their
hands; such a discovery had been made in the critical moment of
their fate. The chemists of China or Europe had found, by casual
or elaborate experiments, that a mixture of saltpetre, sulphur,
and charcoal, produces, with a spark of fire, a tremendous
explosion. It was soon observed, that if the expansive force were
compressed in a strong tube, a ball of stone or iron might be
expelled with irresistible and destructive velocity. The precise
&aelig;ra of the invention and application of gunpowder ^91 is
involved in doubtful traditions and equivocal language; yet we
may clearly discern, that it was known before the middle of the
fourteenth century; and that before the end of the same, the use
of artillery in battles and sieges, by sea and land, was familiar
to the states of Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and England. ^92
The priority of nations is of small account; none could derive
any exclusive benefit from their previous or superior knowledge;
and in the common improvement, they stood on the same level of
relative power and military science. Nor was it possible to
circumscribe the secret within the pale of the church; it was
disclosed to the Turks by the treachery of apostates and the
selfish policy of rivals; and the sultans had sense to adopt, and
wealth to reward, the talents of a Christian engineer. The
Genoese, who transported Amurath into Europe, must be accused as
his preceptors; and it was probably by their hands that his
cannon was cast and directed at the siege of Constantinople. ^93
The first attempt was indeed unsuccessful; but in the general
warfare of the age, the advantage was on
<strong><em>their</em></strong> side, who were most commonly the
assailants: for a while the proportion of the attack and defence
was suspended; and this thundering artillery was pointed against
the walls and towers which had been erected only to resist the
less potent engines of antiquity. By the Venetians, the use of
gunpowder was communicated without reproach to the sultans of
Egypt and Persia, their allies against the Ottoman power; the
secret was soon propagated to the extremities of Asia; and the
advantage of the European was confined to his easy victories over
the savages of the new world. If we contrast the rapid progress
of this mischievous discovery with the slow and laborious
advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a
philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the
folly of mankind.</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: The first and second volumes of Dr. Watson's
Chemical Essays contain two valuable discourses on the discovery
and composition of gunpowder.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: On this subject modern testimonies cannot be
trusted. The original passages are collected by Ducange, (Gloss.
Latin. tom. i. p. 675, <strong><em>Bombarda</em></strong>.) But
in the early doubtful twilight, the name, sound, fire, and
effect, that seem to express <strong><em>our</em></strong>
artillery, may be fairly interpreted of the old engines and the
Greek fire. For the English cannon at Crecy, the authority of
John Villani (Chron. l. xii. c. 65) must be weighed against the
silence of Froissard. Yet Muratori (Antiquit. Itali&aelig; Medii
&AElig;vi, tom. ii. Dissert. xxvi. p. 514, 515) has produced a
decisive passage from Petrarch, (De Remediis utriusque
Fortun&aelig; Dialog.,) who, before the year 1344, execrates this
terrestrial thunder, <strong><em>nuper</em></strong> rara,
<strong><em>nunc</em></strong> communis. *</p>

<p>Note: * Mr. Hallam makes the following observation on the
objection thrown our by Gibbon: "The positive testimony of
Villani, who died within two years afterwards, and had manifestly
obtained much information as to the great events passing in
France, cannot be rejected. He ascribes a material effect to the
cannon of Edward, Colpi delle bombarde, which I suspect, from his
strong expressions, had not been employed before, except against
stone walls. It seems, he says, as if God thundered con grande
uccisione di genti e efondamento di cavalli." Middle Ages, vol.
i. p. 510. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: The Turkish cannon, which Ducas (c. 30) first
introduces before Belgrade, (A.D. 1436,) is mentioned by
Chalcondyles (l. v. p. 123) in 1422, at the siege of
Constantinople.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXVI: Union Of The Greek And Latin
Churches.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Applications Of The Eastern Emperors To The Popes. -- Visits
To The West, Of John The First, Manuel, And John The Second,
Pal&aelig;ologus. -- Union Of The Greek And Latin Churches,
Promoted By The Council Of Basil, And Concluded At Ferrara And
Florence. -- State Of Literature At Constantinople. -- Its
Revival In Italy By The Greek Fugitives. -- Curiosity And
Emulation Of The Latins.</p>

<p>In the four last centuries of the Greek emperors, their
friendly or hostile aspect towards the pope and the Latins may be
observed as the thermometer of their prosperity or distress; as
the scale of the rise and fall of the Barbarian dynasties. When
the Turks of the house of Seljuk pervaded Asia, and threatened
Constantinople, we have seen, at the council of Placentia, the
suppliant ambassadors of Alexius imploring the protection of the
common father of the Christians. No sooner had the arms of the
French pilgrims removed the sultan from Nice to Iconium, than the
Greek princes resumed, or avowed, their genuine hatred and
contempt for the schismatics of the West, which precipitated the
first downfall of their empire. The date of the Mogul invasion is
marked in the soft and charitable language of John Vataces. After
the recovery of Constantinople, the throne of the first
Pal&aelig;ologus was encompassed by foreign and domestic enemies;
as long as the sword of Charles was suspended over his head, he
basely courted the favor of the Roman pontiff; and sacrificed to
the present danger his faith, his virtue, and the affection of
his subjects. On the decease of Michael, the prince and people
asserted the independence of their church, and the purity of
their creed: the elder Andronicus neither feared nor loved the
Latins; in his last distress, pride was the safeguard of
superstition; nor could he decently retract in his age the firm
and orthodox declarations of his youth. His grandson, the younger
Andronicus, was less a slave in his temper and situation; and the
conquest of Bithynia by the Turks admonished him to seek a
temporal and spiritual alliance with the Western princes. After a
separation and silence of fifty years, a secret agent, the monk
Barlaam, was despatched to Pope Benedict the Twelfth; and his
artful instructions appear to have been drawn by the master-hand
of the great domestic. ^1 "Most holy father," was he commissioned
to say, "the emperor is not less desirous than yourself of a
union between the two churches: but in this delicate transaction,
he is obliged to respect his own dignity and the prejudices of
his subjects. The ways of union are twofold; force and
persuasion. Of force, the inefficacy has been already tried;
since the Latins have subdued the empire, without subduing the
minds, of the Greeks. The method of persuasion, though slow, is
sure and permanent. A deputation of thirty or forty of our
doctors would probably agree with those of the Vatican, in the
love of truth and the unity of belief; but on their return, what
would be the use, the recompense, of such an agreement? the scorn
of their brethren, and the reproaches of a blind and obstinate
nation. Yet that nation is accustomed to reverence the general
councils, which have fixed the articles of our faith; and if they
reprobate the decrees of Lyons, it is because the Eastern
churches were neither heard nor represented in that arbitrary
meeting. For this salutary end, it will be expedient, and even
necessary, that a well-chosen legate should be sent into Greece,
to convene the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch,
and Jerusalem; and, with their aid, to prepare a free and
universal synod. But at this moment," continued the subtle agent,
"the empire is assaulted and endangered by the Turks, who have
occupied four of the greatest cities of Anatolia. The Christian
inhabitants have expressed a wish of returning to their
allegiance and religion; but the forces and revenues of the
emperor are insufficient for their deliverance: and the Roman
legate must be accompanied, or preceded, by an army of Franks, to
expel the infidels, and open a way to the holy sepulchre." If the
suspicious Latins should require some pledge, some previous
effect of the sincerity of the Greeks, the answers of Barlaam
were perspicuous and rational. "<strong>1.</strong> A general
synod can alone consummate the union of the churches; nor can
such a synod be held till the three Oriental patriarchs, and a
great number of bishops, are enfranchised from the Mahometan
yoke. <strong>2.</strong> The Greeks are alienated by a long
series of oppression and injury: they must be reconciled by some
act of brotherly love, some effectual succor, which may fortify
the authority and arguments of the emperor, and the friends of
the union. <strong>3.</strong> If some difference of faith or
ceremonies should be found incurable, the Greeks, however, are
the disciples of Christ; and the Turks are the common enemies of
the Christian name. The Armenians, Cyprians, and Rhodians, are
equally attacked; and it will become the piety of the French
princes to draw their swords in the general defence of religion.
<strong>4.</strong> Should the subjects of Andronicus be treated
as the worst of schismatics, of heretics, of pagans, a judicious
policy may yet instruct the powers of the West to embrace a
useful ally, to uphold a sinking empire, to guard the confines of
Europe; and rather to join the Greeks against the Turks, than to
expect the union of the Turkish arms with the troops and
treasures of captive Greece." The reasons, the offers, and the
demands, of Andronicus were eluded with cold and stately
indifference. The kings of France and Naples declined the dangers
and glory of a crusade; the pope refused to call a new synod to
determine old articles of faith; and his regard for the obsolete
claims of the Latin emperor and clergy engaged him to use an
offensive superscription, -- "To the
<strong><em>moderator</em></strong> ^2 of the Greeks, and the
persons who style themselves the patriarchs of the Eastern
churches." For such an embassy, a time and character less
propitious could not easily have been found. Benedict the Twelfth
^3 was a dull peasant, perplexed with scruples, and immersed in
sloth and wine: his pride might enrich with a third crown the
papal tiara, but he was alike unfit for the regal and the
pastoral office.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: This curious instruction was transcribed (I
believe) from the Vatican archives, by Odoricus Raynaldus, in his
Continuation of the Annals of Baronius, (Rom&aelig;, 1646--1677,
in x. volumes in folio.) I have contented myself with the
Abb&eacute; Fleury, (Hist. Eccl&eacute;siastique. tom. xx. p.
1--8,) whose abstracts I have always found to be clear, accurate,
and impartial.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: The ambiguity of this title is happy or
ingenious; and <strong><em>moderator</em></strong>, as synonymous
to <strong><em>rector</em></strong>,
<strong><em>gubernator</em></strong>, is a word of classical, and
even Ciceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the
Glossary of Ducange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert
Stephens.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: The first epistle (sine titulo) of Petrarch
exposes the danger of the <strong><em>bark</em></strong>, and the
incapacity of the <strong><em>pilot</em></strong>. H&aelig;c
inter, vino madidus, &aelig;vo gravis, ac soporifero rore
perfusus, jamjam nutitat, dormitat, jam somno pr&aelig;ceps,
atque (utinam solus) ruit . . . . . Heu quanto felicius patrio
terram sulcasset aratro, quam scalmum piscatorium ascendisset!
This satire engages his biographer to weigh the virtues and vices
of Benedict XII. which have been exaggerated by Guelphs and Ghibe
lines, by Papists and Protestants, (see M&eacute;moires sur la
Vie de P&eacute;trarque, tom. i. p. 259, ii. not. xv. p. 13--16.)
He gave occasion to the saying, Bibamus papaliter.]</p>

<p>After the decease of Andronicus, while the Greeks were
distracted by intestine war, they could not presume to agitate a
general union of the Christians. But as soon as Cantacuzene had
subdued and pardoned his enemies, he was anxious to justify, or
at least to extenuate, the introduction of the Turks into Europe,
and the nuptials of his daughter with a Mussulman prince. Two
officers of state, with a Latin interpreter, were sent in his
name to the Roman court, which was transplanted to Avignon, on
the banks of the Rh&ocirc;ne, during a period of seventy years:
they represented the hard necessity which had urged him to
embrace the alliance of the miscreants, and pronounced by his
command the specious and edifying sounds of union and crusade.
Pope Clement the Sixth, ^4 the successor of Benedict, received
them with hospitality and honor, acknowledged the innocence of
their sovereign, excused his distress, applauded his magnanimity,
and displayed a clear knowledge of the state and revolutions of
the Greek empire, which he had imbibed from the honest accounts
of a Savoyard lady, an attendant of the empress Anne. ^5 If
Clement was ill endowed with the virtues of a priest, he
possessed, however, the spirit and magnificence of a prince,
whose liberal hand distributed benefices and kingdoms with equal
facility. Under his reign Avignon was the seat of pomp and
pleasure: in his youth he had surpassed the licentiousness of a
baron; and the palace, nay, the bed-chamber of the pope, was
adorned, or polluted, by the visits of his female favorites. The
wars of France and England were adverse to the holy enterprise;
but his vanity was amused by the splendid idea; and the Greek
ambassadors returned with two Latin bishops, the ministers of the
pontiff. On their arrival at Constantinople, the emperor and the
nuncios admired each other's piety and eloquence; and their
frequent conferences were filled with mutual praises and
promises, by which both parties were amused, and neither could be
deceived. "I am delighted," said the devout Cantacuzene, "with
the project of our holy war, which must redound to my personal
glory, as well as to the public benefit of Christendom. My
dominions will give a free passage to the armies of France: my
troops, my galleys, my treasures, shall be consecrated to the
common cause; and happy would be my fate, could I deserve and
obtain the crown of martyrdom. Words are insufficient to express
the ardor with which I sigh for the reunion of the scattered
members of Christ. If my death could avail, I would gladly
present my sword and my neck: if the spiritual phnix could arise
from my ashes, I would erect the pile, and kindle the flame with
my own hands." Yet the Greek emperor presumed to observe, that
the articles of faith which divided the two churches had been
introduced by the pride and precipitation of the Latins: he
disclaimed the servile and arbitrary steps of the first
Pal&aelig;ologus; and firmly declared, that he would never submit
his conscience unless to the decrees of a free and universal
synod. "The situation of the times," continued he, "will not
allow the pope and myself to meet either at Rome or
Constantinople; but some maritime city may be chosen on the verge
of the two empires, to unite the bishops, and to instruct the
faithful, of the East and West." The nuncios seemed content with
the proposition; and Cantacuzene affects to deplore the failure
of his hopes, which were soon overthrown by the death of Clement,
and the different temper of his successor. His own life was
prolonged, but it was prolonged in a cloister; and, except by his
prayers, the humble monk was incapable of directing the counsels
of his pupil or the state. ^6</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: See the original Lives of Clement VI. in
Muratori, (Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. ii. p.
550--589;) Matteo Villani, (Chron. l. iii. c. 43, in Muratori,
tom. xiv. p. 186,) who styles him, molto cavallaresco, poco
religioso; Fleury, (Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xx. p. 126;) and
the Vie de P&eacute;trarque, (tom. ii. p. 42--45.) The
abb&eacute; de Sade treats him with the most indulgence; but
<strong><em>he</em></strong> is a gentleman as well as a
priest.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Her name (most probably corrupted) was Zampea.
She had accompanied, and alone remained with her mistress at
Constantinople, where her prudence, erudition, and politeness
deserved the praises of the Greeks themselves, (Cantacuzen. l. i.
c. 42.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: See this whole negotiation in Cantacuzene, (l.
iv. c. 9,) who, amidst the praises and virtues which he bestows
on himself, reveals the uneasiness of a guilty conscience.]</p>

<p>Yet of all the Byzantine princes, that pupil, John
Pal&aelig;ologus, was the best disposed to embrace, to believe,
and to obey, the shepherd of the West. His mother, Anne of Savoy,
was baptized in the bosom of the Latin church: her marriage with
Andronicus imposed a change of name, of apparel, and of worship,
but her heart was still faithful to her country and religion: she
had formed the infancy of her son, and she governed the emperor,
after his mind, or at least his stature, was enlarged to the size
of man. In the first year of his deliverance and restoration, the
Turks were still masters of the Hellespont; the son of
Cantacuzene was in arms at Adrianople; and Pal&aelig;ologus could
depend neither on himself nor on his people. By his mother's
advice, and in the hope of foreign aid, he abjured the rights
both of the church and state; and the act of slavery, ^7
subscribed in purple ink, and sealed with the
<strong><em>golden</em></strong> bull, was privately intrusted to
an Italian agent. The first article of the treaty is an oath of
fidelity and obedience to Innocent the Sixth and his successors,
the supreme pontiffs of the Roman and Catholic church. The
emperor promises to entertain with due reverence their legates
and nuncios; to assign a palace for their residence, and a temple
for their worship; and to deliver his second son Manuel as the
hostage of his faith. For these condescensions he requires a
prompt succor of fifteen galleys, with five hundred men at arms,
and a thousand archers, to serve against his Christian and
Mussulman enemies. Pal&aelig;ologus engages to impose on his
clergy and people the same spiritual yoke; but as the resistance
of the Greeks might be justly foreseen, he adopts the two
effectual methods of corruption and education. The legate was
empowered to distribute the vacant benefices among the
ecclesiastics who should subscribe the creed of the Vatican:
three schools were instituted to instruct the youth of
Constantinople in the language and doctrine of the Latins; and
the name of Andronicus, the heir of the empire, was enrolled as
the first student. Should he fail in the measures of persuasion
or force, Pal&aelig;ologus declares himself unworthy to reign;
transferred to the pope all regal and paternal authority; and
invests Innocent with full power to regulate the family, the
government, and the marriage, of his son and successor. But this
treaty was neither executed nor published: the Roman galleys were
as vain and imaginary as the submission of the Greeks; and it was
only by the secrecy that their sovereign escaped the dishonor of
this fruitless humiliation.</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: See this ignominious treaty in Fleury, (Hist.
Eccl&eacute;s. p. 151--154,) from Raynaldus, who drew it from the
Vatican archives. It was not worth the trouble of a pious
forgery.]</p>

<p>The tempest of the Turkish arms soon burst on his head; and
after the loss of Adrianople and Romania, he was enclosed in his
capital, the vassal of the haughty Amurath, with the miserable
hope of being the last devoured by the savage. In this abject
state, Pal&aelig;ologus embraced the resolution of embarking for
Venice, and casting himself at the feet of the pope: he was the
first of the Byzantine princes who had ever visited the unknown
regions of the West, yet in them alone he could seek consolation
or relief; and with less violation of his dignity he might appear
in the sacred college than at the Ottoman
<strong><em>Porte</em></strong>. After a long absence, the Roman
pontiffs were returning from Avignon to the banks of the Tyber:
Urban the Fifth, ^8 of a mild and virtuous character, encouraged
or allowed the pilgrimage of the Greek prince; and, within the
same year, enjoyed the glory of receiving in the Vatican the two
Imperial shadows who represented the majesty of Constantine and
Charlemagne. In this suppliant visit, the emperor of
Constantinople, whose vanity was lost in his distress, gave more
than could be expected of empty sounds and formal submissions. A
previous trial was imposed; and, in the presence of four
cardinals, he acknowledged, as a true Catholic, the supremacy of
the pope, and the double procession of the Holy Ghost. After this
purification, he was introduced to a public audience in the
church of St. Peter: Urban, in the midst of the cardinals, was
seated on his throne; the Greek monarch, after three
genuflections, devoutly kissed the feet, the hands, and at length
the mouth, of the holy father, who celebrated high mass in his
presence, allowed him to lead the bridle of his mule, and treated
him with a sumptuous banquet in the Vatican. The entertainment of
Pal&aelig;ologus was friendly and honorable; yet some difference
was observed between the emperors of the East and West; ^9 nor
could the former be entitled to the rare privilege of chanting
the gospel in the rank of a deacon. ^10 In favor of his
proselyte, Urban strove to rekindle the zeal of the French king
and the other powers of the West; but he found them cold in the
general cause, and active only in their domestic quarrels. The
last hope of the emperor was in an English mercenary, John
Hawkwood, ^11 or Acuto, who, with a band of adventurers, the
white brotherhood, had ravaged Italy from the Alps to Calabria;
sold his services to the hostile states; and incurred a just
excommunication by shooting his arrows against the papal
residence. A special license was granted to negotiate with the
outlaw, but the forces, or the spirit, of Hawkwood, were unequal
to the enterprise: and it was for the advantage, perhaps, of
Pal&aelig;ologus to be disappointed of succor, that must have
been costly, that could not be effectual, and which might have
been dangerous. ^12 The disconsolate Greek ^13 prepared for his
return, but even his return was impeded by a most ignominious
obstacle. On his arrival at Venice, he had borrowed large sums at
exorbitant usury; but his coffers were empty, his creditors were
impatient, and his person was detained as the best security for
the payment. His eldest son, Andronicus, the regent of
Constantinople, was repeatedly urged to exhaust every resource;
and even by stripping the churches, to extricate his father from
captivity and disgrace. But the unnatural youth was insensible of
the disgrace, and secretly pleased with the captivity of the
emperor: the state was poor, the clergy were obstinate; nor could
some religious scruple be wanting to excuse the guilt of his
indifference and delay. Such undutiful neglect was severely
reproved by the piety of his brother Manuel, who instantly sold
or mortgaged all that he possessed, embarked for Venice, relieved
his father, and pledged his own freedom to be responsible for the
debt. On his return to Constantinople, the parent and king
distinguished his two sons with suitable rewards; but the faith
and manners of the slothful Pal&aelig;ologus had not been
improved by his Roman pilgrimage; and his apostasy or conversion,
devoid of any spiritual or temporal effects, was speedily
forgotten by the Greeks and Latins. ^14</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: See the two first original Lives of Urban V., (in
Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. ii. p. 623,
635,) and the Ecclesiastical Annals of Spondanus, (tom. i. p.
573, A.D. 1369, No. 7,) and Raynaldus, (Fleury, Hist.
Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xx. p. 223, 224.) Yet, from some variations,
I suspect the papal writers of slightly magnifying the
genuflections of Pal&aelig;ologus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: Paullo minus quam si fuisset Imperator Romanorum.
Yet his title of Imperator Gr&aelig;corum was no longer disputed,
(Vit. Urban V. p. 623.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: It was confined to the successors of
Charlemagne, and to them only on Christmas-day. On all other
festivals these Imperial deacons were content to serve the pope,
as he said mass, with the book and the
<strong><em>corporale</em></strong>. Yet the abb&eacute; de Sade
generously thinks that the merits of Charles IV. might have
entitled him, though not on the proper day, (A.D. 1368, November
1,) to the whole privilege. He seems to affix a just value on the
privilege and the man, (Vie de Petrarque, tom. iii. p. 735.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Through some Italian corruptions, the etymology
of <strong><em>Falcone in bosco</em></strong>, (Matteo Villani,
l. xi. c. 79, in Muratori, tom. xv. p. 746,) suggests the English
word <strong><em>Hawkwood</em></strong>, the true name of our
adventurous countryman, (Thomas Walsingham, Hist. Anglican. inter
Scriptores Camdeni, p. 184.) After two-and-twenty victories, and
one defeat, he died, in 1394, general of the Florentines, and was
buried with such honors as the republic has not paid to Dante or
Petrarch, (Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. xii. p.
212--371.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: This torrent of English (by birth or service)
overflowed from France into Italy after the peace of Bretigny in
1630. Yet the exclamation of Muratori (Annali, tom. xii. p. 197)
is rather true than civil. "Ci mancava ancor questo, che dopo
essere calpestrata l'Italia da tanti masnadieri Tedeschi ed
Ungheri, venissero fin dall' Inghliterra nuovi
<strong><em>cani</em></strong> a finire di divorarla."]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: Chalcondyles, l. i. p. 25, 26. The Greek
supposes his journey to the king of France, which is sufficiently
refuted by the silence of the national historians. Nor am I much
more inclined to believe, that Pal&aelig;ologus departed from
Italy, valde bene consolatus et contentus, (Vit. Urban V. p.
623.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: His return in 1370, and the coronation of
Manuel, Sept. 25, 1373, (Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 241,) leaves
some intermediate &aelig;ra for the conspiracy and punishment of
Andronicus.]</p>

<p>Thirty years after the return of Pal&aelig;ologus, his son and
successor, Manuel, from a similar motive, but on a larger scale,
again visited the countries of the West. In a preceding chapter I
have related his treaty with Bajazet, the violation of that
treaty, the siege or blockade of Constantinople, and the French
succor under the command of the gallant Boucicault. ^15 By his
ambassadors, Manuel had solicited the Latin powers; but it was
thought that the presence of a distressed monarch would draw
tears and supplies from the hardest Barbarians; ^16 and the
marshal who advised the journey prepared the reception of the
Byzantine prince. The land was occupied by the Turks; but the
navigation of Venice was safe and open: Italy received him as the
first, or, at least, as the second, of the Christian princes;
Manuel was pitied as the champion and confessor of the faith; and
the dignity of his behavior prevented that pity from sinking into
contempt. From Venice he proceeded to Padua and Pavia; and even
the duke of Milan, a secret ally of Bajazet, gave him safe and
honorable conduct to the verge of his dominions. ^17 On the
confines of France ^18 the royal officers undertook the care of
his person, journey, and expenses; and two thousand of the
richest citizens, in arms and on horseback, came forth to meet
him as far as Charenton, in the neighborhood of the capital. At
the gates of Paris, he was saluted by the chancellor and the
parliament; and Charles the Sixth, attended by his princes and
nobles, welcomed his brother with a cordial embrace. The
successor of Constantine was clothed in a robe of white silk, and
mounted on a milk-white steed, a circumstance, in the French
ceremonial, of singular importance: the white color is considered
as the symbol of sovereignty; and, in a late visit, the German
emperor, after a haughty demand and a peevish refusal, had been
reduced to content himself with a black courser. Manuel was
lodged in the Louvre; a succession of feasts and balls, the
pleasures of the banquet and the chase, were ingeniously varied
by the politeness of the French, to display their magnificence,
and amuse his grief: he was indulged in the liberty of his
chapel; and the doctors of the Sorbonne were astonished, and
possibly scandalized, by the language, the rites, and the
vestments, of his Greek clergy. But the slightest glance on the
state of the kingdom must teach him to despair of any effectual
assistance. The unfortunate Charles, though he enjoyed some lucid
intervals, continually relapsed into furious or stupid insanity:
the reins of government were alternately seized by his brother
and uncle, the dukes of Orleans and Burgundy, whose factious
competition prepared the miseries of civil war. The former was a
gay youth, dissolved in luxury and love: the latter was the
father of John count of Nevers, who had so lately been ransomed
from Turkish captivity; and, if the fearless son was ardent to
revenge his defeat, the more prudent Burgundy was content with
the cost and peril of the first experiment. When Manuel had
satiated the curiosity, and perhaps fatigued the patience, of the
French, he resolved on a visit to the adjacent island. In his
progress from Dover, he was entertained at Canterbury with due
reverence by the prior and monks of St. Austin; and, on
Blackheath, King Henry the Fourth, with the English court,
saluted the Greek hero, (I copy our old historian,) who, during
many days, was lodged and treated in London as emperor of the
East. ^19 But the state of England was still more adverse to the
design of the holy war. In the same year, the hereditary
sovereign had been deposed and murdered: the reigning prince was
a successful usurper, whose ambition was punished by jealousy and
remorse: nor could Henry of Lancaster withdraw his person or
forces from the defence of a throne incessantly shaken by
conspiracy and rebellion. He pitied, he praised, he feasted, the
emperor of Constantinople; but if the English monarch assumed the
cross, it was only to appease his people, and perhaps his
conscience, by the merit or semblance of his pious intention. ^20
Satisfied, however, with gifts and honors, Manuel returned to
Paris; and, after a residence of two years in the West, shaped
his course through Germany and Italy, embarked at Venice, and
patiently expected, in the Morea, the moment of his ruin or
deliverance. Yet he had escaped the ignominious necessity of
offering his religion to public or private sale. The Latin church
was distracted by the great schism; the kings, the nations, the
universities, of Europe were divided in their obedience between
the popes of Rome and Avignon; and the emperor, anxious to
conciliate the friendship of both parties, abstained from any
correspondence with the indigent and unpopular rivals. His
journey coincided with the year of the jubilee; but he passed
through Italy without desiring, or deserving, the plenary
indulgence which abolished the guilt or penance of the sins of
the faithful. The Roman pope was offended by this neglect;
accused him of irreverence to an image of Christ; and exhorted
the princes of Italy to reject and abandon the obstinate
schismatic. ^21</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: M&eacute;moires de Boucicault, P. i. c. 35,
36.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: His journey into the west of Europe is slightly,
and I believe reluctantly, noticed by Chalcondyles (l. ii. c.
44--50) and Ducas, (c. 14.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. xii. p. 406.
John Galeazzo was the first and most powerful duke of Milan. His
connection with Bajazet is attested by Froissard; and he
contributed to save and deliver the French captives of
Nicopolis.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: For the reception of Manuel at Paris, see
Spondanus, (Annal. Eccl&eacute;s. tom. i. p. 676, 677, A.D. 1400,
No. 5,) who quotes Juvenal des Ursins and the monk of St. Denys;
and Villaret, (Hist. de France, tom. xii. p. 331--334,) who
quotes nobody according to the last fashion of the French
writers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: A short note of Manuel in England is extracted
by Dr. Hody from a MS. at Lambeth, (de Gr&aelig;cis illustribus,
p. 14,) C. P. Imperator, diu variisque et horrendis Paganorum
insultibus coarctatus, ut pro eisdem resistentiam triumphalem
perquireret, Anglorum Regem visitare decrevit, &amp;c. Rex (says
Walsingham, p. 364) nobili apparat&ucirc; . . . suscepit (ut
decuit) tantum Heroa, duxitque Londonias, et per multos dies
exhibuit gloriose, pro expensis hospitii sui solvens, et eum
respiciens tanto fastigio donativis. He repeats the same in his
Upodigma Neustri&aelig;, (p. 556.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: Shakspeare begins and ends the play of Henry IV.
with that prince's vow of a crusade, and his belief that he
should die in Jerusalem.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: This fact is preserved in the Historia Politica,
A.D. 1391--1478, published by Martin Crusius, (Turco
Gr&aelig;cia, p. 1--43.) The image of Christ, which the Greek
emperor refused to worship, was probably a work of
sculpture.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVI: Union Of The Greek And Latin
Churches. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>During the period of the crusades, the Greeks beheld with
astonishment and terror the perpetual stream of emigration that
flowed, and continued to flow, from the unknown climates of their
West. The visits of their last emperors removed the veil of
separation, and they disclosed to their eyes the powerful nations
of Europe, whom they no longer presumed to brand with the name of
Barbarians. The observations of Manuel, and his more inquisitive
followers, have been preserved by a Byzantine historian of the
times: ^22 his scattered ideas I shall collect and abridge; and
it may be amusing enough, perhaps instructive, to contemplate the
rude pictures of Germany, France, and England, whose ancient and
modern state are so familiar to <strong><em>our</em></strong>
minds. I. Germany (says the Greek Chalcondyles) is of ample
latitude from Vienna to the ocean; and it stretches (a strange
geography) from Prague in Bohemia to the River Tartessus, and the
Pyren&aelig;an Mountains. ^23 The soil, except in figs and
olives, is sufficiently fruitful; the air is salubrious; the
bodies of the natives are robust and healthy; and these cold
regions are seldom visited with the calamities of pestilence, or
earthquakes. After the Scythians or Tartars, the Germans are the
most numerous of nations: they are brave and patient; and were
they united under a single head, their force would be
irresistible. By the gift of the pope, they have acquired the
privilege of choosing the Roman emperor; ^24 nor is any people
more devoutly attached to the faith and obedience of the Latin
patriarch. The greatest part of the country is divided among the
princes and prelates; but Strasburg, Cologne, Hamburgh, and more
than two hundred free cities, are governed by sage and equal
laws, according to the will, and for the advantage, of the whole
community. The use of duels, or single combats on foot, prevails
among them in peace and war: their industry excels in all the
mechanic arts; and the Germans may boast of the invention of
gunpowder and cannon, which is now diffused over the greatest
part of the world. II. The kingdom of France is spread above
fifteen or twenty days' journey from Germany to Spain, and from
the Alps to the British Ocean; containing many flourishing
cities, and among these Paris, the seat of the king, which
surpasses the rest in riches and luxury. Many princes and lords
alternately wait in his palace, and acknowledge him as their
sovereign: the most powerful are the dukes of Bretagne and
Burgundy; of whom the latter possesses the wealthy province of
Flanders, whose harbors are frequented by the ships and merchants
of our own, and the more remote, seas. The French are an ancient
and opulent people; and their language and manners, though
somewhat different, are not dissimilar from those of the
Italians. Vain of the Imperial dignity of Charlemagne, of their
victories over the Saracens, and of the exploits of their heroes,
Oliver and Rowland, ^25 they esteem themselves the first of the
western nations; but this foolish arrogance has been recently
humbled by the unfortunate events of their wars against the
English, the inhabitants of the British island. III. Britain, in
the ocean, and opposite to the shores of Flanders, may be
considered either as one, or as three islands; but the whole is
united by a common interest, by the same manners, and by a
similar government. The measure of its circumference is five
thousand stadia: the land is overspread with towns and villages:
though destitute of wine, and not abounding in fruit-trees, it is
fertile in wheat and barley; in honey and wool; and much cloth is
manufactured by the inhabitants. In populousness and power, in
richness and luxury, London, ^26 the metropolis of the isle, may
claim a preeminence over all the cities of the West. It is
situate on the Thames, a broad and rapid river, which at the
distance of thirty miles falls into the Gallic Sea; and the daily
flow and ebb of the tide affords a safe entrance and departure to
the vessels of commerce. The king is head of a powerful and
turbulent aristocracy: his principal vassals hold their estates
by a free and unalterable tenure; and the laws define the limits
of his authority and their obedience. The kingdom has been often
afflicted by foreign conquest and domestic sedition: but the
natives are bold and hardy, renowned in arms and victorious in
war. The form of their shields or targets is derived from the
Italians, that of their swords from the Greeks; the use of the
long bow is the peculiar and decisive advantage of the English.
Their language bears no affinity to the idioms of the Continent:
in the habits of domestic life, they are not easily distinguished
from their neighbors of France: but the most singular
circumstance of their manners is their disregard of conjugal
honor and of female chastity. In their mutual visits, as the
first act of hospitality, the guest is welcomed in the embraces
of their wives and daughters: among friends they are lent and
borrowed without shame; nor are the islanders offended at this
strange commerce, and its inevitable consequences. ^27 Informed
as we are of the customs of Old England and assured of the virtue
of our mothers, we may smile at the credulity, or resent the
injustice, of the Greek, who must have confounded a modest salute
^28 with a criminal embrace. But his credulity and injustice may
teach an important lesson; to distrust the accounts of foreign
and remote nations, and to suspend our belief of every tale that
deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.
^29</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: The Greek and Turkish history of Laonicus
Chalcondyles ends with the winter of 1463; and the abrupt
conclusion seems to mark, that he laid down his pen in the same
year. We know that he was an Athenian, and that some
contemporaries of the same name contributed to the revival of the
Greek language in Italy. But in his numerous digressions, the
modest historian has never introduced himself; and his editor
Leunclavius, as well as Fabricius, (Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi.
p. 474,) seems ignorant of his life and character. For his
descriptions of Germany, France, and England, see l. ii. p. 36,
37, 44--50.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: I shall not animadvert on the geographical
errors of Chalcondyles. In this instance, he perhaps followed,
and mistook, Herodotus, (l. ii. c. 33,) whose text may be
explained, (Herodote de Larcher, tom. ii. p. 219, 220,) or whose
ignorance may be excused. Had these modern Greeks never read
Strabo, or any of their lesser geographers?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: A citizen of new Rome, while new Rome survived,
would have scorned to dignify the German 'Rhx with titles of
BasileuV or Autokratwr 'Rwmaiwn: but all pride was extinct in the
bosom of Chalcondyles; and he describes the Byzantine prince, and
his subject, by the proper, though humble, names of ''EllhneV and
BasileuV 'Ellhnwn.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: Most of the old romances were translated in the
xivth century into French prose, and soon became the favorite
amusement of the knights and ladies in the court of Charles VI.
If a Greek believed in the exploits of Rowland and Oliver, he may
surely be excused, since the monks of St. Denys, the national
historians, have inserted the fables of Archbishop Turpin in
their Chronicles of France.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: Londinh . . . . de te poliV dunamei te proecousa
tvn en th nhsw tauth pasvn polewn, olbw te kai th allh eudaimonia
oudemiaV tvn peoV esperan leipomenh. Even since the time of
Fitzstephen, (the xiith century,) London appears to have
maintained this preeminence of wealth and magnitude; and her
gradual increase has, at least, kept pace with the general
improvement of Europe.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: If the double sense of the verb Kuw (osculor,
and in utero gero) be equivocal, the context and pious horror of
Chalcondyles can leave no doubt of his meaning and mistake, (p.
49.) *</p>

<p>Note: * I can discover no "pious horror" in the plain manner
in which Chalcondyles relates this strange usage. He says, oude
aiscunun tovto feoei eautoiV kuesqai taV te gunaikaV autvn kai
taV qugateraV, yet these are expression beyond what would be
used, if the ambiguous word kuesqai were taken in its more
innocent sense. Nor can the phrase parecontai taV eautvn gunaikaV
en toiV epithdeioiV well bear a less coarse interpretation.
Gibbon is possibly right as to the origin of this extraordinary
mistake. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Erasmus (Epist. Fausto Andrelino) has a pretty
passage on the English fashion of kissing strangers on their
arrival and departure, from whence, however, he draws no
scandalous inferences.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Perhaps we may apply this remark to the
community of wives among the old Britons, as it is supposed by
C&aelig;sar and Dion, (Dion Cassius, l. lxii. tom. ii. p. 1007,)
with Reimar's judicious annotation. The
<strong><em>Arreoy</em></strong> of Otaheite, so certain at
first, is become less visible and scandalous, in proportion as we
have studied the manners of that gentle and amorous people.]</p>

<p>After his return, and the victory of Timour, Manuel reigned
many years in prosperity and peace. As long as the sons of
Bajazet solicited his friendship and spared his dominions, he was
satisfied with the national religion; and his leisure was
employed in composing twenty theological dialogues for its
defence. The appearance of the Byzantine ambassadors at the
council of Constance, ^30 announces the restoration of the
Turkish power, as well as of the Latin church: the conquest of
the sultans, Mahomet and Amurath, reconciled the emperor to the
Vatican; and the siege of Constantinople almost tempted him to
acquiesce in the double procession of the Holy Ghost. When Martin
the Fifth ascended without a rival the chair of St. Peter, a
friendly intercourse of letters and embassies was revived between
the East and West. Ambition on one side, and distress on the
other, dictated the same decent language of charity and peace:
the artful Greek expressed a desire of marrying his six sons to
Italian princesses; and the Roman, not less artful, despatched
the daughter of the marquis of Montferrat, with a company of
noble virgins, to soften, by their charms, the obstinacy of the
schismatics. Yet under this mask of zeal, a discerning eye will
perceive that all was hollow and insincere in the court and
church of Constantinople. According to the vicissitudes of danger
and repose, the emperor advanced or retreated; alternately
instructed and disavowed his ministers; and escaped from the
importunate pressure by urging the duty of inquiry, the
obligation of collecting the sense of his patriarchs and bishops,
and the impossibility of convening them at a time when the
Turkish arms were at the gates of his capital. From a review of
the public transactions it will appear that the Greeks insisted
on three successive measures, a succor, a council, and a final
reunion, while the Latins eluded the second, and only promised
the first, as a consequential and voluntary reward of the third.
But we have an opportunity of unfolding the most secret
intentions of Manuel, as he explained them in a private
conversation without artifice or disguise. In his declining age,
the emperor had associated John Pal&aelig;ologus, the second of
the name, and the eldest of his sons, on whom he devolved the
greatest part of the authority and weight of government. One day,
in the presence only of the historian Phranza, ^31 his favorite
chamberlain, he opened to his colleague and successor the true
principle of his negotiations with the pope. ^32 "Our last
resource," said Manuel, against the Turks, "is their fear of our
union with the Latins, of the warlike nations of the West, who
may arm for our relief and for their destruction. As often as you
are threatened by the miscreants, present this danger before
their eyes. Propose a council; consult on the means; but ever
delay and avoid the convocation of an assembly, which cannot tend
either to our spiritual or temporal emolument. The Latins are
proud; the Greeks are obstinate; neither party will recede or
retract; and the attempt of a perfect union will confirm the
schism, alienate the churches, and leave us, without hope or
defence, at the mercy of the Barbarians." Impatient of this
salutary lesson, the royal youth arose from his seat, and
departed in silence; and the wise monarch (continued Phranza)
casting his eyes on me, thus resumed his discourse: "My son deems
himself a great and heroic prince; but, alas! our miserable age
does not afford scope for heroism or greatness. His daring spirit
might have suited the happier times of our ancestors; but the
present state requires not an emperor, but a cautious steward of
the last relics of our fortunes. Well do I remember the lofty
expectations which he built on our alliance with Mustapha; and
much do I fear, that this rash courage will urge the ruin of our
house, and that even religion may precipitate our downfall." Yet
the experience and authority of Manuel preserved the peace, and
eluded the council; till, in the seventy-eighth year of his age,
and in the habit of a monk, he terminated his career, dividing
his precious movables among his children and the poor, his
physicians and his favorite servants. Of his six sons, ^33
Andronicus the Second was invested with the principality of
Thessalonica, and died of a leprosy soon after the sale of that
city to the Venetians and its final conquest by the Turks. Some
fortunate incidents had restored Peloponnesus, or the Morea, to
the empire; and in his more prosperous days, Manuel had fortified
the narrow isthmus of six miles ^34 with a stone wall and one
hundred and fifty-three towers. The wall was overthrown by the
first blast of the Ottomans; the fertile peninsula might have
been sufficient for the four younger brothers, Theodore and
Constantine, Demetrius and Thomas; but they wasted in domestic
contests the remains of their strength; and the least successful
of the rivals were reduced to a life of dependence in the
Byzantine palace.</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: See Lenfant, Hist. du Concile de Constance, tom.
ii. p. 576; and or the ecclesiastical history of the times, the
Annals of Spondanus the Biblioth&egrave;que of Dupin, tom. xii.,
and xxist and xxiid volumes of the History, or rather the
Continuation, of Fleury.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: From his early youth, George Phranza, or
Phranzes, was employed in the service of the state and palace;
and Hanckius (de Script. Byzant. P. i. c. 40) has collected his
life from his own writings. He was no more than four-and-twenty
years of age at the death of Manuel, who recommended him in the
strongest terms to his successor: Imprimis vero hunc Phranzen
tibi commendo, qui ministravit mihi fideliter et diligenter
(Phranzes, l. ii. c. i.) Yet the emperor John was cold, and he
preferred the service of the despots of Peloponnesus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: See Phranzes, l. ii. c. 13. While so many
manuscripts of the Greek original are extant in the libraries of
Rome, Milan, the Escurial, &amp;c., it is a matter of shame and
reproach, that we should be reduced to the Latin version, or
abstract, of James Pontanus, (ad calcem Theophylact,
Simocatt&aelig;: Ingolstadt, 1604,) so deficient in accuracy and
elegance, (Fabric. Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. vi. p. 615--620.)
*</p>

<p>Note: * The Greek text of Phranzes was edited by F. C. Alter
Vindobon&aelig;, 1796. It has been re-edited by Bekker for the
new edition of the Byzantines, Bonn, 1838. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: See Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 243--248.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: The exact measure of the Hexamilion, from sea to
sea, was 3800 orgyi&aelig;, or <strong><em>toises</em></strong>,
of six Greek feet, (Phranzes, l. i. c. 38,) which would produce a
Greek mile, still smaller than that of 660 French
<strong><em>toises</em></strong>, which is assigned by D'Anville,
as still in use in Turkey. Five miles are commonly reckoned for
the breadth of the isthmus. See the Travels of Spon, Wheeler and
Chandler.]</p>

<p>The eldest of the sons of Manuel, John Pal&aelig;ologus the
Second, was acknowledged, after his father's death, as the sole
emperor of the Greeks. He immediately proceeded to repudiate his
wife, and to contract a new marriage with the princess of
Trebizond: beauty was in his eyes the first qualification of an
empress; and the clergy had yielded to his firm assurance, that
unless he might be indulged in a divorce, he would retire to a
cloister, and leave the throne to his brother Constantine. The
first, and in truth the only, victory of Pal&aelig;ologus, was
over a Jew, ^35 whom, after a long and learned dispute, he
converted to the Christian faith; and this momentous conquest is
carefully recorded in the history of the times. But he soon
resumed the design of uniting the East and West; and, regardless
of his father's advice, listened, as it should seem with
sincerity, to the proposal of meeting the pope in a general
council beyond the Adriatic. This dangerous project was
encouraged by Martin the Fifth, and coldly entertained by his
successor Eugenius, till, after a tedious negotiation, the
emperor received a summons from the Latin assembly of a new
character, the independent prelates of Basil, who styled
themselves the representatives and judges of the Catholic
church.</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: The first objection of the Jews is on the death
of Christ: if it were voluntary, Christ was a suicide; which the
emperor parries with a mystery. They then dispute on the
conception of the Virgin, the sense of the prophecies, &amp;c.,
(Phranzes, l. ii. c. 12, a whole chapter.)]</p>

<p>The Roman pontiff had fought and conquered in the cause of
ecclesiastical freedom; but the victorious clergy were soon
exposed to the tyranny of their deliverer; and his sacred
character was invulnerable to those arms which they found so keen
and effectual against the civil magistrate. Their great charter,
the right of election, was annihilated by appeals, evaded by
trusts or commendams, disappointed by reversionary grants, and
superseded by previous and arbitrary reservations. ^36 A public
auction was instituted in the court of Rome: the cardinals and
favorites were enriched with the spoils of nations; and every
country might complain that the most important and valuable
benefices were accumulated on the heads of aliens and absentees.
During their residence at Avignon, the ambition of the popes
subsided in the meaner passions of avarice ^37 and luxury: they
rigorously imposed on the clergy the tributes of first-fruits and
tenths; but they freely tolerated the impunity of vice, disorder,
and corruption. These manifold scandals were aggravated by the
great schism of the West, which continued above fifty years. In
the furious conflicts of Rome and Avignon, the vices of the
rivals were mutually exposed; and their precarious situation
degraded their authority, relaxed their discipline, and
multiplied their wants and exactions. To heal the wounds, and
restore the monarchy, of the church, the synods of Pisa and
Constance ^38 were successively convened; but these great
assemblies, conscious of their strength, resolved to vindicate
the privileges of the Christian aristocracy. From a personal
sentence against two pontiffs, whom they rejected, and a third,
their acknowledged sovereign, whom they deposed, the fathers of
Constance proceeded to examine the nature and limits of the Roman
supremacy; nor did they separate till they had established the
authority, above the pope, of a general council. It was enacted,
that, for the government and reformation of the church, such
assemblies should be held at regular intervals; and that each
synod, before its dissolution, should appoint the time and place
of the subsequent meeting. By the influence of the court of Rome,
the next convocation at Sienna was easily eluded; but the bold
and vigorous proceedings of the council of Basil ^39 had almost
been fatal to the reigning pontiff, Eugenius the Fourth. A just
suspicion of his design prompted the fathers to hasten the
promulgation of their first decree, that the representatives of
the church-militant on earth were invested with a divine and
spiritual jurisdiction over all Christians, without excepting the
pope; and that a general council could not be dissolved,
prorogued, or transferred, unless by their free deliberation and
consent. On the notice that Eugenius had fulminated a bull for
that purpose, they ventured to summon, to admonish, to threaten,
to censure the contumacious successor of St. Peter. After many
delays, to allow time for repentance, they finally declared,
that, unless he submitted within the term of sixty days, he was
suspended from the exercise of all temporal and ecclesiastical
authority. And to mark their jurisdiction over the prince as well
as the priest, they assumed the government of Avignon, annulled
the alienation of the sacred patrimony, and protected Rome from
the imposition of new taxes. Their boldness was justified, not
only by the general opinion of the clergy, but by the support and
power of the first monarchs of Christendom: the emperor Sigismond
declared himself the servant and protector of the synod; Germany
and France adhered to their cause; the duke of Milan was the
enemy of Eugenius; and he was driven from the Vatican by an
insurrection of the Roman people. Rejected at the same time by
temporal and spiritual subjects, submission was his only choice:
by a most humiliating bull, the pope repealed his own acts, and
ratified those of the council; incorporated his legates and
cardinals with that venerable body; and
<strong><em>seemed</em></strong> to resign himself to the decrees
of the supreme legislature. Their fame pervaded the countries of
the East: and it was in their presence that Sigismond received
the ambassadors of the Turkish sultan, ^40 who laid at his feet
twelve large vases, filled with robes of silk and pieces of gold.
The fathers of Basil aspired to the glory of reducing the Greeks,
as well as the Bohemians, within the pale of the church; and
their deputies invited the emperor and patriarch of
Constantinople to unite with an assembly which possessed the
confidence of the Western nations. Pal&aelig;ologus was not
averse to the proposal; and his ambassadors were introduced with
due honors into the Catholic senate. But the choice of the place
appeared to be an insuperable obstacle, since he refused to pass
the Alps, or the sea of Sicily, and positively required that the
synod should be adjourned to some convenient city in Italy, or at
least on the Danube. The other articles of this treaty were more
readily stipulated: it was agreed to defray the travelling
expenses of the emperor, with a train of seven hundred persons,
^41 to remit an immediate sum of eight thousand ducats ^42 for
the accommodation of the Greek clergy; and in his absence to
grant a supply of ten thousand ducats, with three hundred archers
and some galleys, for the protection of Constantinople. The city
of Avignon advanced the funds for the preliminary expenses; and
the embarkation was prepared at Marseilles with some difficulty
and delay.</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: In the treatise delle Materie Beneficiarie of
Fra Paolo, (in the ivth volume of the last, and best, edition of
his works,) the papal system is deeply studied and freely
described. Should Rome and her religion be annihilated, this
golden volume may still survive, a philosophical history, and a
salutary warning.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: Pope John XXII. (in 1334) left behind him, at
Avignon, eighteen millions of gold florins, and the value of
seven millions more in plate and jewels. See the Chronicle of
John Villani, (l. xi. c. 20, in Muratori's Collection, tom. xiii.
p. 765,) whose brother received the account from the papal
treasurers. A treasure of six or eight millions sterling in the
xivth century is enormous, and almost incredible.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: A learned and liberal Protestant, M. Lenfant,
has given a fair history of the councils of Pisa, Constance, and
Basil, in six volumes in quarto; but the last part is the most
hasty and imperfect, except in the account of the troubles of
Bohemia.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: The original acts or minutes of the council of
Basil are preserved in the public library, in twelve volumes in
folio. Basil was a free city, conveniently situate on the Rhine,
and guarded by the arms of the neighboring and confederate Swiss.
In 1459, the university was founded by Pope Pius II.,
(&AElig;neas Sylvius,) who had been secretary to the council. But
what is a council, or a university, to the presses o Froben and
the studies of Erasmus?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: This Turkish embassy, attested only by
Crantzius, is related with some doubt by the annalist Spondanus,
A.D. 1433, No. 25, tom. i. p. 824.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Syropulus, p. 19. In this list, the Greeks
appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity
which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which
are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch. The 75,000
florins which they asked in this negotiation of the pope, (p. 9,)
were more than they could hope or want.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: I use indifferently the words
<strong><em>ducat</em></strong> and
<strong><em>florin</em></strong>, which derive their names, the
former from the <strong><em>dukes</em></strong> of Milan, the
latter from the republic of <strong><em>Florence</em></strong>.
These gold pieces, the first that were coined in Italy, perhaps
in the Latin world, may be compared in weight and value to one
third of the English guinea.]</p>

<p>In his distress, the friendship of Pal&aelig;ologus was
disputed by the ecclesiastical powers of the West; but the
dexterous activity of a monarch prevailed over the slow debates
and inflexible temper of a republic. The decrees of Basil
continually tended to circumscribe the despotism of the pope, and
to erect a supreme and perpetual tribunal in the church. Eugenius
was impatient of the yoke; and the union of the Greeks might
afford a decent pretence for translating a rebellious synod from
the Rhine to the Po. The independence of the fathers was lost if
they passed the Alps: Savoy or Avignon, to which they acceded
with reluctance, were described at Constantinople as situate far
beyond the pillars of Hercules; ^43 the emperor and his clergy
were apprehensive of the dangers of a long navigation; they were
offended by a haughty declaration, that after suppressing the
<strong><em>new</em></strong> heresy of the Bohemians, the
council would soon eradicate the <strong><em>old</em></strong>
heresy of the Greeks. ^44 On the side of Eugenius, all was
smooth, and yielding, and respectful; and he invited the
Byzantine monarch to heal by his presence the schism of the
Latin, as well as of the Eastern, church. Ferrara, near the coast
of the Adriatic, was proposed for their amicable interview; and
with some indulgence of forgery and theft, a surreptitious decree
was procured, which transferred the synod, with its own consent,
to that Italian city. Nine galleys were equipped for the service
at Venice, and in the Isle of Candia; their diligence anticipated
the slower vessels of Basil: the Roman admiral was commissioned
to burn, sink, and destroy; ^45 and these priestly squadrons
might have encountered each other in the same seas where Athens
and Sparta had formerly contended for the preeminence of glory.
Assaulted by the importunity of the factions, who were ready to
fight for the possession of his person, Pal&aelig;ologus
hesitated before he left his palace and country on a perilous
experiment. His father's advice still dwelt on his memory; and
reason must suggest, that since the Latins were divided among
themselves, they could never unite in a foreign cause. Sigismond
dissuaded the unreasonable adventure; his advice was impartial,
since he adhered to the council; and it was enforced by the
strange belief, that the German C&aelig;sar would nominate a
Greek his heir and successor in the empire of the West. ^46 Even
the Turkish sultan was a counsellor whom it might be unsafe to
trust, but whom it was dangerous to offend. Amurath was unskilled
in the disputes, but he was apprehensive of the union, of the
Christians. From his own treasures, he offered to relieve the
wants of the Byzantine court; yet he declared with seeming
magnanimity, that Constantinople should be secure and inviolate,
in the absence of her sovereign. ^47 The resolution of
Pal&aelig;ologus was decided by the most splendid gifts and the
most specious promises: he wished to escape for a while from a
scene of danger and distress and after dismissing with an
ambiguous answer the messengers of the council, he declared his
intention of embarking in the Roman galleys. The age of the
patriarch Joseph was more susceptible of fear than of hope; he
trembled at the perils of the sea, and expressed his
apprehension, that his feeble voice, with thirty perhaps of his
orthodox brethren, would be oppressed in a foreign land by the
power and numbers of a Latin synod. He yielded to the royal
mandate, to the flattering assurance, that he would be heard as
the oracle of nations, and to the secret wish of learning from
his brother of the West, to deliver the church from the yoke of
kings. ^48 The five <strong><em>cross-bearers</em></strong>, or
dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and
one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher, Sylvester
Syropulus, ^49 has composed a free and curious history ^50 of the
<strong><em>false</em></strong> union. ^51 Of the clergy that
reluctantly obeyed the summons of the emperor and the patriarch,
submission was the first duty, and patience the most useful
virtue. In a chosen list of twenty bishops, we discover the
metropolitan titles of Heracle&aelig; and Cyzicus, Nice and
Nicomedia, Ephesus and Trebizond, and the personal merit of Mark
and Bessarion who, in the confidence of their learning and
eloquence, were promoted to the episcopal rank. Some monks and
philosophers were named to display the science and sanctity of
the Greek church; and the service of the choir was performed by a
select band of singers and musicians. The patriarchs of
Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, appeared by their genuine or
fictitious deputies; the primate of Russia represented a national
church, and the Greeks might contend with the Latins in the
extent of their spiritual empire. The precious vases of St.
Sophia were exposed to the winds and waves, that the patriarch
might officiate with becoming splendor: whatever gold the emperor
could procure, was expended in the massy ornaments of his bed and
chariot; ^52 and while they affected to maintain the prosperity
of their ancient fortune, they quarrelled for the division of
fifteen thousand ducats, the first alms of the Roman pontiff.
After the necessary preparations, John Pal&aelig;ologus, with a
numerous train, accompanied by his brother Demetrius, and the
most respectable persons of the church and state, embarked in
eight vessels with sails and oars which steered through the
Turkish Straits of Gallipoli to the Archipelago, the Morea, and
the Adriatic Gulf. ^53</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: At the end of the Latin version of Phranzes, we
read a long Greek epistle or declamation of George of Trebizond,
who advises the emperor to prefer Eugenius and Italy. He treats
with contempt the schismatic assembly of Basil, the Barbarians of
Gaul and Germany, who had conspired to transport the chair of St.
Peter beyond the Alps; oi aqlioi (says he) se kai thn meta sou
sunodon exw tvn 'Hrakleiwn sthlwn kai pera Gadhrwn exaxousi. Was
Constantinople unprovided with a map?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: Syropulus (p. 26--31) attests his own
indignation, and that of his countrymen; and the Basil deputies,
who excused the rash declaration, could neither deny nor alter an
act of the council.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: Condolmieri, the pope's nephew and admiral,
expressly declared, oti orismon eceipara tou Papa ina polemhsh
opou an eurh ta katerga thV Sunodou, kai ei dunhqh, katadush, kai
ajanish. The naval orders of the synod were less peremptory, and,
till the hostile squadrons appeared, both parties tried to
conceal their quarrel from the Greeks.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Syropulus mentions the hopes of
Pal&aelig;ologus, (p. 36,) and the last advice of Sigismond,(p.
57.) At Corfu, the Greek emperor was informed of his friend's
death; had he known it sooner, he would have returned home,(p.
79.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: Phranzes himself, though from different motives,
was of the advice of Amurath, (l. ii. c. 13.) Utinam ne synodus
ista unquam fuisset, si tantes offensiones et detrimenta paritura
erat. This Turkish embassy is likewise mentioned by Syropulus,
(p. 58;) and Amurath kept his word. He might threaten, (p. 125,
219,) but he never attacked, the city.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: The reader will smile at the simplicity with
which he imparted these hopes to his favorites: toiauthn
plhrojorian schsein hlpize kai dia tou Papa eqarrei eleuqervdai
thn ekklhsian apo thV apoteqeishV autou douleiaV para tou
basilewV, (p. 92.) Yet it would have been difficult for him to
have practised the lessons of Gregory VII.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: The Christian name of Sylvester is borrowed from
the Latin calendar. In modern Greek, pouloV, as a diminutive, is
added to the end of words: nor can any reasoning of Creyghton,
the editor, excuse his changing into
S<strong><em>gur</em></strong>opulus, (Sguros, fuscus,) the
Syropulus of his own manuscript, whose name is subscribed with
his own hand in the acts of the council of Florence. Why might
not the author be of Syrian extraction?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: From the conclusion of the history, I should fix
the date to the year 1444, four years after the synod, when great
ecclesiarch had abdicated his office, (section xii. p. 330--350.)
His passions were cooled by time and retirement; and, although
Syropulus is often partial, he is never intemperate.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: <strong><em>Vera historia unionis non ver inter
Gr&aelig;cos et Latinos</em></strong>, (<strong><em>Haga
Comitis</em></strong>, 1660, in folio,) was first published with
a loose and florid version, by Robert Creyghton, chaplain to
Charles II. in his exile. The zeal of the editor has prefixed a
polemic title, for the beginning of the original is wanting.
Syropulus may be ranked with the best of the Byzantine writers
for the merit of his narration, and even of his style; but he is
excluded from the orthodox collections of the councils.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Syropulus (p. 63) simply expresses his intention
in' outw pompawn en' 'ItaloiV megaV basileuV par ekeinvn
nomizoito; and the Latin of Creyghton may afford a specimen of
his florid paraphrase. Ut pomp&acirc; circumductus noster
Imperator Itali&aelig; populis aliquis deauratus Jupiter
crederetur, aut Crsus ex opulenta Lydia.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: Although I cannot stop to quote Syropulus for
every fact, I will observe that the navigation of the Greeks from
Constantinople to Venice and Ferrara is contained in the ivth
section, (p. 67--100,) and that the historian has the uncommon
talent of placing each scene before the reader's eye.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVI: Union Of The Greek And Latin
Churches. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>After a tedious and troublesome navigation of seventy-seven
days, this religious squadron cast anchor before Venice; and
their reception proclaimed the joy and magnificence of that
powerful republic. In the command of the world, the modest
Augustus had never claimed such honors from his subjects as were
paid to his feeble successor by an independent state. Seated on
the poop on a lofty throne, he received the visit, or, in the
Greek style, the <strong><em>adoration</em></strong> of the doge
and senators. ^54 They sailed in the Bucentaur, which was
accompanied by twelve stately galleys: the sea was overspread
with innumerable gondolas of pomp and pleasure; the air resounded
with music and acclamations; the mariners, and even the vessels,
were dressed in silk and gold; and in all the emblems and
pageants, the Roman eagles were blended with the lions of St.
Mark. The triumphal procession, ascending the great canal, passed
under the bridge of the Rialto; and the Eastern strangers gazed
with admiration on the palaces, the churches, and the
populousness of a city, that seems to float on the bosom of the
waves. ^55 They sighed to behold the spoils and trophies with
which it had been decorated after the sack of Constantinople.
After a hospitable entertainment of fifteen days,
Pal&aelig;ologus pursued his journey by land and water from
Venice to Ferrara; and on this occasion the pride of the Vatican
was tempered by policy to indulge the ancient dignity of the
emperor of the East. He made his entry on a
<strong><em>black</em></strong> horse; but a milk-white steed,
whose trappings were embroidered with golden eagles, was led
before him; and the canopy was borne over his head by the princes
of Este, the sons or kinsmen of Nicholas, marquis of the city,
and a sovereign more powerful than himself. ^56 Pal&aelig;ologus
did not alight till he reached the bottom of the staircase: the
pope advanced to the door of the apartment; refused his proffered
genuflection; and, after a paternal embrace, conducted the
emperor to a seat on his left hand. Nor would the patriarch
descend from his galley, till a ceremony almost equal, had been
stipulated between the bishops of Rome and Constantinople. The
latter was saluted by his brother with a kiss of union and
charity; nor would any of the Greek ecclesiastics submit to kiss
the feet of the Western primate. On the opening of the synod, the
place of honor in the centre was claimed by the temporal and
ecclesiastical chiefs; and it was only by alleging that his
predecessors had not assisted in person at Nice or Chalcedon,
that Eugenius could evade the ancient precedents of Constantine
and Marcian. After much debate, it was agreed that the right and
left sides of the church should be occupied by the two nations;
that the solitary chair of St. Peter should be raised the first
of the Latin line; and that the throne of the Greek emperor, at
the head of his clergy, should be equal and opposite to the
second place, the vacant seat of the emperor of the West. ^57</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: At the time of the synod, Phranzes was in
Peloponnesus: but he received from the despot Demetrius a
faithful account of the honorable reception of the emperor and
patriarch both at Venice and Ferrara, (Dux . . . . sedentem
Imperatorem <strong><em>adorat</em></strong>,) which are more
slightly mentioned by the Latins, (l. ii. c. 14, 15, 16.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: The astonishment of a Greek prince and a French
ambassador (M&eacute;moires de Philippe de Comines, l. vii. c.
18,) at the sight of Venice, abundantly proves that in the xvth
century it was the first and most splendid of the Christian
cities. For the spoils of Constantinople at Venice, see
Syropulus, (p. 87.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: Nicholas III. of Este reigned forty-eight years,
(A.D. 1393--1441,) and was lord of Ferrara, Modena, Reggio,
Parma, Rovigo, and Commachio. See his Life in Muratori,
(Antichit&agrave; Estense, tom. ii. p. 159--201.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: The Latin vulgar was provoked to laughter at the
strange dresses of the Greeks, and especially the length of their
garments, their sleeves, and their beards; nor was the emperor
distinguished, except by the purple color, and his diadem or
tiara, with a jewel on the top, (Hody de Gr&aelig;cis
Illustribus, p. 31.) Yet another spectator confesses that the
Greek fashion was piu grave e piu degna than the Italian.
(Vespasiano in Vit. Eugen. IV. in Muratori, tom. xxv. p.
261.)]</p>

<p>But as soon as festivity and form had given place to a more
serious treaty, the Greeks were dissatisfied with their journey,
with themselves, and with the pope. The artful pencil of his
emissaries had painted him in a prosperous state; at the head of
the princes and prelates of Europe, obedient at his voice, to
believe and to arm. The thin appearance of the universal synod of
Ferrara betrayed his weakness: and the Latins opened the first
session with only five archbishops, eighteen bishops, and ten
abbots, the greatest part of whom were the subjects or countrymen
of the Italian pontiff. Except the duke of Burgundy, none of the
potentates of the West condescended to appear in person, or by
their ambassadors; nor was it possible to suppress the judicial
acts of Basil against the dignity and person of Eugenius, which
were finally concluded by a new election. Under these
circumstances, a truce or delay was asked and granted, till
Pal&aelig;ologus could expect from the consent of the Latins some
temporal reward for an unpopular union; and after the first
session, the public proceedings were adjourned above six months.
The emperor, with a chosen band of his favorites and
<strong><em>Janizaries</em></strong>, fixed his summer residence
at a pleasant, spacious monastery, six miles from Ferrara;
forgot, in the pleasures of the chase, the distress of the church
and state; and persisted in destroying the game, without
listening to the just complaints of the marquis or the
husbandman. ^58 In the mean while, his unfortunate Greeks were
exposed to all the miseries of exile and poverty; for the support
of each stranger, a monthly allowance was assigned of three or
four gold florins; and although the entire sum did not amount to
seven hundred florins, a long arrear was repeatedly incurred by
the indigence or policy of the Roman court. ^59 They sighed for a
speedy deliverance, but their escape was prevented by a triple
chain: a passport from their superiors was required at the gates
of Ferrara; the government of Venice had engaged to arrest and
send back the fugitives; and inevitable punishment awaited them
at Constantinople; excommunication, fines, and a sentence, which
did not respect the sacerdotal dignity, that they should be
stripped naked and publicly whipped. ^60 It was only by the
alternative of hunger or dispute that the Greeks could be
persuaded to open the first conference; and they yielded with
extreme reluctance to attend from Ferrara to Florence the rear of
a flying synod. This new translation was urged by inevitable
necessity: the city was visited by the plague; the fidelity of
the marquis might be suspected; the mercenary troops of the duke
of Milan were at the gates; and as they occupied Romagna, it was
not without difficulty and danger that the pope, the emperor, and
the bishops, explored their way through the unfrequented paths of
the Apennine. ^61</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: For the emperor's hunting, see Syropulus, (p.
143, 144, 191.) The pope had sent him eleven miserable hacks; but
he bought a strong and swift horse that came from Russia. The
name of <strong><em>Janizaries</em></strong> may surprise; but
the name, rather than the institution, had passed from the
Ottoman, to the Byzantine, court, and is often used in the last
age of the empire.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: The Greeks obtained, with much difficulty, that
instead of provisions, money should be distributed, four florins
<strong><em>per</em></strong> month to the persons of honorable
rank, and three florins to their servants, with an addition of
thirty more to the emperor, twenty-five to the patriarch, and
twenty to the prince, or despot, Demetrius. The payment of the
first month amounted to 691 florins, a sum which will not allow
us to reckon above 200 Greeks of every condition. (Syropulus, p.
104, 105.) On the 20th October, 1438, there was an arrear of four
months; in April, 1439, of three; and of five and a half in July,
at the time of the union, (p. 172, 225, 271.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: Syropulus (p. 141, 142, 204, 221) deplores the
imprisonment of the Greeks, and the tyranny of the emperor and
patriarch.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: The wars of Italy are most clearly represented
in the xiiith vol. of the Annals of Muratori. The schismatic
Greek, Syropulus, (p. 145,) appears to have exaggerated the fear
and disorder of the pope in his retreat from Ferrara to Florence,
which is proved by the acts to have been somewhat more decent and
deliberate.]</p>

<p>Yet all these obstacles were surmounted by time and policy.
The violence of the fathers of Basil rather promoted than injured
the cause of Eugenius; the nations of Europe abhorred the schism,
and disowned the election, of Felix the Fifth, who was
successively a duke of Savoy, a hermit, and a pope; and the great
princes were gradually reclaimed by his competitor to a favorable
neutrality and a firm attachment. The legates, with some
respectable members, deserted to the Roman army, which insensibly
rose in numbers and reputation; the council of Basil was reduced
to thirty-nine bishops, and three hundred of the inferior clergy;
^62 while the Latins of Florence could produce the subscriptions
of the pope himself, eight cardinals, two patriarchs, eight
archbishops, fifty two bishops, and forty-five abbots, or chiefs
of religious orders. After the labor of nine months, and the
debates of twenty-five sessions, they attained the advantage and
glory of the reunion of the Greeks. Four principal questions had
been agitated between the two churches; <strong>1.</strong> The
use of unleavened bread in the communion of Christ's body.
<strong>2.</strong> The nature of purgatory. <strong>3.</strong>
The supremacy of the pope. And, <strong>4.</strong> The single or
double procession of the Holy Ghost. The cause of either nation
was managed by ten theological champions: the Latins were
supported by the inexhaustible eloquence of Cardinal Julian; and
Mark of Ephesus and Bessarion of Nice were the bold and able
leaders of the Greek forces. We may bestow some praise on the
progress of human reason, by observing that the first of these
questions was now treated as an immaterial rite, which might
innocently vary with the fashion of the age and country. With
regard to the second, both parties were agreed in the belief of
an intermediate state of purgation for the venial sins of the
faithful; and whether their souls were purified by elemental fire
was a doubtful point, which in a few years might be conveniently
settled on the spot by the disputants. The claims of supremacy
appeared of a more weighty and substantial kind; yet by the
Orientals the Roman bishop had ever been respected as the first
of the five patriarchs; nor did they scruple to admit, that his
jurisdiction should be exercised agreeably to the holy canons; a
vague allowance, which might be defined or eluded by occasional
convenience. The procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father
alone, or from the Father and the Son, was an article of faith
which had sunk much deeper into the minds of men; and in the
sessions of Ferrara and Florence, the Latin addition of
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong> was subdivided into two
questions, whether it were legal, and whether it were orthodox.
Perhaps it may not be necessary to boast on this subject of my
own impartial indifference; but I must think that the Greeks were
strongly supported by the prohibition of the council of
Chalcedon, against adding any article whatsoever to the creed of
Nice, or rather of Constantinople. ^63 In earthly affairs, it is
not easy to conceive how an assembly equal of legislators can
bind their successors invested with powers equal to their own.
But the dictates of inspiration must be true and unchangeable;
nor should a private bishop, or a provincial synod, have presumed
to innovate against the judgment of the Catholic church. On the
substance of the doctrine, the controversy was equal and endless:
reason is confounded by the procession of a deity: the gospel,
which lay on the altar, was silent; the various texts of the
fathers might be corrupted by fraud or entangled by sophistry;
and the Greeks were ignorant of the characters and writings of
the Latin saints. ^64 Of this at least we may be sure, that
neither side could be convinced by the arguments of their
opponents. Prejudice may be enlightened by reason, and a
superficial glance may be rectified by a clear and more perfect
view of an object adapted to our faculties. But the bishops and
monks had been taught from their infancy to repeat a form of
mysterious words: their national and personal honor depended on
the repetition of the same sounds; and their narrow minds were
hardened and inflamed by the acrimony of a public dispute.</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Syropulus is pleased to reckon seven hundred
prelates in the council of Basil. The error is manifest, and
perhaps voluntary. That extravagant number could not be supplied
by <strong><em>all</em></strong> the ecclesiastics of every
degree who were present at the council, nor by
<strong><em>all</em></strong> the absent bishops of the West,
who, expressly or tacitly, might adhere to its decrees.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: The Greeks, who disliked the union, were
unwilling to sally from this strong fortress, (p. 178, 193, 195,
202, of Syropulus.) The shame of the Latins was aggravated by
their producing an old MS. of the second council of Nice, with
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong> in the Nicene creed. A
palpable forgery! (p. 173.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: 'WV egw (said an eminent Greek) otan eiV naon
eiselqw Datinwn ou proskunv tina tvn ekeise agiwn, epei oude
gnwrizw tina, (Syropulus, p. 109.) See the perplexity of the
Greeks, (p. 217, 218, 252, 253, 273.)]</p>

<p>While they were most in a cloud of dust and darkness, the Pope
and emperor were desirous of a seeming union, which could alone
accomplish the purposes of their interview; and the obstinacy of
public dispute was softened by the arts of private and personal
negotiation. The patriarch Joseph had sunk under the weight of
age and infirmities; his dying voice breathed the counsels of
charity and concord, and his vacant benefice might tempt the
hopes of the ambitious clergy. The ready and active obedience of
the archbishops of Russia and Nice, of Isidore and Bessarion, was
prompted and recompensed by their speedy promotion to the dignity
of cardinals. Bessarion, in the first debates, had stood forth
the most strenuous and eloquent champion of the Greek church; and
if the apostate, the bastard, was reprobated by his country, ^65
he appears in ecclesiastical story a rare example of a patriot
who was recommended to court favor by loud opposition and
well-timed compliance. With the aid of his two spiritual
coadjutors, the emperor applied his arguments to the general
situation and personal characters of the bishops, and each was
successively moved by authority and example. Their revenues were
in the hands of the Turks, their persons in those of the Latins:
an episcopal treasure, three robes and forty ducats, was soon
exhausted: ^66 the hopes of their return still depended on the
ships of Venice and the alms of Rome; and such was their
indigence, that their arrears, the payment of a debt, would be
accepted as a favor, and might operate as a bribe. ^67 The danger
and relief of Constantinople might excuse some prudent and pious
dissimulation; and it was insinuated, that the obstinate heretics
who should resist the consent of the East and West would be
abandoned in a hostile land to the revenge or justice of the
Roman pontiff. ^68 In the first private assembly of the Greeks,
the formulary of union was approved by twenty-four, and rejected
by twelve, members; but the five
<strong><em>cross-bearers</em></strong> of St. Sophia, who
aspired to represent the patriarch, were disqualified by ancient
discipline; and their right of voting was transferred to the
obsequious train of monks, grammarians, and profane laymen. The
will of the monarch produced a false and servile unanimity, and
no more than two patriots had courage to speak their own
sentiments and those of their country. Demetrius, the emperor's
brother, retired to Venice, that he might not be witness of the
union; and Mark of Ephesus, mistaking perhaps his pride for his
conscience, disclaimed all communion with the Latin heretics, and
avowed himself the champion and confessor of the orthodox creed.
^69 In the treaty between the two nations, several forms of
consent were proposed, such as might satisfy the Latins, without
dishonoring the Greeks; and they weighed the scruples of words
and syllables, till the theological balance trembled with a
slight preponderance in favor of the Vatican. It was agreed (I
must entreat the attention of the reader) that the Holy Ghost
proceeds from the Father <strong><em>and</em></strong> the Son,
as from one principle and one substance; that he proceeds
<strong><em>by</em></strong> the Son, being of the same nature
and substance, and that he proceeds from the Father
<strong><em>and</em></strong> the Son, by one
<strong><em>spiration</em></strong> and production. It is less
difficult to understand the articles of the preliminary treaty;
that the pope should defray all the expenses of the Greeks in
their return home; that he should annually maintain two galleys
and three hundred soldiers for the defence of Constantinople:
that all the ships which transported pilgrims to Jerusalem should
be obliged to touch at that port; that as often as they were
required, the pope should furnish ten galleys for a year, or
twenty for six months; and that he should powerfully solicit the
princes of Europe, if the emperor had occasion for land
forces.</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: See the polite altercation of Marc and Bessarion
in Syropulus, (p. 257,) who never dissembles the vices of his own
party, and fairly praises the virtues of the Latins.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: For the poverty of the Greek bishops, see a
remarkable passage of Ducas, (c. 31.) One had possessed, for his
whole property, three old gowns, &amp;c. By teaching
one-and-twenty years in his monastery, Bessarion himself had
collected forty gold florins; but of these, the archbishop had
expended twenty-eight in his voyage from Peloponnesus, and the
remainder at Constantinople, (Syropulus, p. 127.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: Syropulus denies that the Greeks received any
money before they had subscribed the art of union, (p. 283:) yet
he relates some suspicious circumstances; and their bribery and
corruption are positively affirmed by the historian Ducas.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: The Greeks most piteously express their own
fears of exile and perpetual slavery, (Syropul. p. 196;) and they
were strongly moved by the emperor's threats, (p. 260.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: I had forgot another popular and orthodox
protester: a favorite bound, who usually lay quiet on the
foot-cloth of the emperor's throne but who barked most furiously
while the act of union was reading without being silenced by the
soothing or the lashes of the royal attendants, (Syropul. p. 265,
266.)]</p>

<p>The same year, and almost the same day, were marked by the
deposition of Eugenius at Basil; and, at Florence, by his reunion
of the Greeks and Latins. In the former synod, (which he styled
indeed an assembly of d&aelig;mons,) the pope was branded with
the guilt of simony, perjury, tyranny, heresy, and schism; ^70
and declared to be incorrigible in his vices, unworthy of any
title, and incapable of holding any ecclesiastical office. In the
latter, he was revered as the true and holy vicar of Christ, who,
after a separation of six hundred years, had reconciled the
Catholics of the East and West in one fold, and under one
shepherd. The act of union was subscribed by the pope, the
emperor, and the principal members of both churches; even by
those who, like Syropulus, ^71 had been deprived of the right of
voting. Two copies might have sufficed for the East and West; but
Eugenius was not satisfied, unless four authentic and similar
transcripts were signed and attested as the monuments of his
victory. ^72 On a memorable day, the sixth of July, the
successors of St. Peter and Constantine ascended their thrones
the two nations assembled in the cathedral of Florence; their
representatives, Cardinal Julian and Bessarion archbishop of
Nice, appeared in the pulpit, and, after reading in their
respective tongues the act of union, they mutually embraced, in
the name and the presence of their applauding brethren. The pope
and his ministers then officiated according to the Roman liturgy;
the creed was chanted with the addition of
<strong><em>filioque</em></strong>; the acquiescence of the
Greeks was poorly excused by their ignorance of the harmonious,
but inarticulate sounds; ^73 and the more scrupulous Latins
refused any public celebration of the Byzantine rite. Yet the
emperor and his clergy were not totally unmindful of national
honor. The treaty was ratified by their consent: it was tacitly
agreed that no innovation should be attempted in their creed or
ceremonies: they spared, and secretly respected, the generous
firmness of Mark of Ephesus; and, on the decease of the
patriarch, they refused to elect his successor, except in the
cathedral of St. Sophia. In the distribution of public and
private rewards, the liberal pontiff exceeded their hopes and his
promises: the Greeks, with less pomp and pride, returned by the
same road of Ferrara and Venice; and their reception at
Constantinople was such as will be described in the following
chapter. ^74 The success of the first trial encouraged Eugenius
to repeat the same edifying scenes; and the deputies of the
Armenians, the Maronites, the Jacobites of Syria and Egypt, the
Nestorians and the &AElig;thiopians, were successively
introduced, to kiss the feet of the Roman pontiff, and to
announce the obedience and the orthodoxy of the East. These
Oriental embassies, unknown in the countries which they presumed
to represent, ^75 diffused over the West the fame of Eugenius;
and a clamor was artfully propagated against the remnant of a
schism in Switzerland and Savoy, which alone impeded the harmony
of the Christian world. The vigor of opposition was succeeded by
the lassitude of despair: the council of Basil was silently
dissolved; and Felix, renouncing the tiara, again withdrew to the
devout or delicious hermitage of Ripaille. ^76 A general peace
was secured by mutual acts of oblivion and indemnity: all ideas
of reformation subsided; the popes continued to exercise and
abuse their ecclesiastical despotism; nor has Rome been since
disturbed by the mischiefs of a contested election. ^77</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: From the original Lives of the Popes, in
Muratori's Collection, (tom. iii. p. ii. tom. xxv.,) the manners
of Eugenius IV. appear to have been decent, and even exemplary.
His situation, exposed to the world and to his enemies, was a
restraint, and is a pledge.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: Syropulus, rather than subscribe, would have
assisted, as the least evil, at the ceremony of the union. He was
compelled to do both; and the great ecclesiarch poorly excuses
his submission to the emperor, (p. 290--292.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: None of these original acts of union can at
present be produced. Of the ten MSS. that are preserved, (five at
Rome, and the remainder at Florence, Bologna, Venice, Paris, and
London,) nine have been examined by an accurate critic, (M. de
Brequigny,) who condemns them for the variety and imperfections
of the Greek signatures. Yet several of these may be esteemed as
authentic copies, which were subscribed at Florence, before (26th
of August, 1439) the final separation of the pope and emperor,
(M&eacute;moires de l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions, tom.
xliii. p. 287--311.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: ''Hmin de wV ashmoi edokoun jwnai, (Syropul. p.
297.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: In their return, the Greeks conversed at Bologna
with the ambassadors of England: and after some questions and
answers, these impartial strangers laughed at the pretended union
of Florence, (Syropul. p. 307.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: So nugatory, or rather so fabulous, are these
reunions of the Nestorians, Jacobites, &amp;c., that I have
turned over, without success, the Bibliotheca Orientalis of
Assemannus, a faithful slave of the Vatican.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: Ripaille is situate near Thonon in Savoy, on the
southern side of the Lake of Geneva. It is now a Carthusian
abbey; and Mr. Addison (Travels into Italy, vol. ii. p. 147, 148,
of Baskerville's edition of his works) has celebrated the place
and the founder. &AElig;neas Sylvius, and the fathers of Basil,
applaud the austere life of the ducal hermit; but the French and
Italian proverbs most unluckily attest the popular opinion of his
luxury.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: In this account of the councils of Basil,
Ferrara, and Florence, I have consulted the original acts, which
fill the xviith and xviiith tome of the edition of Venice, and
are closed by the perspicuous, though partial, history of
Augustin Patricius, an Italian of the xvth century. They are
digested and abridged by Dupin, (Biblioth&egrave;que
Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xii.,) and the continuator of Fleury, (tom.
xxii.;) and the respect of the Gallican church for the adverse
parties confines their members to an awkward moderation.]</p>

<p>The journeys of three emperors were unavailing for their
temporal, or perhaps their spiritual, salvation; but they were
productive of a beneficial consequence -- the revival of the
Greek learning in Italy, from whence it was propagated to the
last nations of the West and North. In their lowest servitude and
depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still
possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of
antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul
to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of
philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the
capital, had been trampled under foot, the various Barbarians had
doubtless corrupted the form and substance of the national
dialect; and ample glossaries have been composed, to interpret a
multitude of words, of Arabic, Turkish, Sclavonian, Latin, or
French origin. ^78 But a purer idiom was spoken in the court and
taught in the college; and the flourishing state of the language
is described, and perhaps embellished, by a learned Italian, ^79
who, by a long residence and noble marriage, ^80 was naturalized
at Constantinople about thirty years before the Turkish conquest.
"The vulgar speech," says Philelphus, ^81 "has been depraved by
the people, and infected by the multitude of strangers and
merchants, who every day flock to the city and mingle with the
inhabitants. It is from the disciples of such a school that the
Latin language received the versions of Aristotle and Plato; so
obscure in sense, and in spirit so poor. But the Greeks who have
escaped the contagion, are those whom
<strong><em>we</em></strong> follow; and they alone are worthy of
our imitation. In familiar discourse, they still speak the tongue
of Aristophanes and Euripides, of the historians and philosophers
of Athens; and the style of their writings is still more
elaborate and correct. The persons who, by their birth and
offices, are attached to the Byzantine court, are those who
maintain, with the least alloy, the ancient standard of elegance
and purity; and the native graces of language most conspicuously
shine among the noble matrons, who are excluded from all
intercourse with foreigners. With foreigners do I say? They live
retired and sequestered from the eyes of their fellow-citizens.
Seldom are they seen in the streets; and when they leave their
houses, it is in the dusk of evening, on visits to the churches
and their nearest kindred. On these occasions, they are on
horseback, covered with a veil, and encompassed by their parents,
their husbands, or their servants." ^82</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: In the first attempt, Meursius collected 3600
Gr&aelig;co-barbarous words, to which, in a second edition, he
subjoined 1800 more; yet what plenteous gleanings did he leave to
Portius, Ducange, Fabrotti, the Bollandists, &amp;c.! (Fabric.
Bibliot. Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 101, &amp;c.)
<strong><em>Some</em></strong> Persic words may be found in
Xenophon, and some Latin ones in Plutarch; and such is the
inevitable effect of war and commerce; but the form and substance
of the language were not affected by this slight alloy.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: The life of Francis Philelphus, a sophist,
proud, restless, and rapacious, has been diligently composed by
Lancelot (M&eacute;moires de l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions,
tom. x. p. 691--751) (Istoria della Letteratura Italiana, tom.
vii. p. 282--294,) for the most part from his own letters. His
elaborate writings, and those of his contemporaries, are
forgotten; but their familiar epistles still describe the men and
the times.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: He married, and had perhaps debauched, the
daughter of John, and the granddaughter of Manuel Chrysoloras.
She was young, beautiful, and wealthy; and her noble family was
allied to the Dorias of Genoa and the emperors of
Constantinople.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: Gr&aelig;ci quibus lingua depravata non sit . .
. . ita loquuntur vulgo h&acirc;c etiam tempestate ut
Aristophanes comicus, aut Euripides tragicus, ut oratores omnes,
ut historiographi, ut philosophi . . . . litterati autem homines
et doctius et emendatius . . . . Nam viri aulici veterem sermonis
dignitatem atque elegantiam retinebant in primisque ips&aelig;
nobiles mulieres; quibus cum nullum esset omnino cum viris
peregrinis commercium, merus ille ac purus Gr&aelig;corum sermo
servabatur intactus, (Philelph. Epist. ad ann. 1451, apud Hodium,
p. 188, 189.) He observes in another passage, uxor illa mea
Theodora locutione erat admodum moderat&acirc; et suavi et maxime
Attic&acirc;.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: Philelphus, absurdly enough, derives this Greek
or Oriental jealousy from the manners of ancient Rome.]</p>

<p>Among the Greeks a numerous and opulent clergy was dedicated
to the service of religion: their monks and bishops have ever
been distinguished by the gravity and austerity of their manners;
nor were they diverted, like the Latin priests, by the pursuits
and pleasures of a secular, and even military, life. After a
large deduction for the time and talent that were lost in the
devotion, the laziness, and the discord, of the church and
cloister, the more inquisitive and ambitious minds would explore
the sacred and profane erudition of their native language. The
ecclesiastics presided over the education of youth; the schools
of philosophy and eloquence were perpetuated till the fall of the
empire; and it may be affirmed, that more books and more
knowledge were included within the walls of Constantinople, than
could be dispersed over the extensive countries of the West. ^83
But an important distinction has been already noticed: the Greeks
were stationary or retrograde, while the Latins were advancing
with a rapid and progressive motion. The nations were excited by
the spirit of independence and emulation; and even the little
world of the Italian states contained more people and industry
than the decreasing circle of the Byzantine empire. In Europe,
the lower ranks of society were relieved from the yoke of feudal
servitude; and freedom is the first step to curiosity and
knowledge. The use, however rude and corrupt, of the Latin tongue
had been preserved by superstition; the universities, from
Bologna to Oxford, ^84 were peopled with thousands of scholars;
and their misguided ardor might be directed to more liberal and
manly studies. In the resurrection of science, Italy was the
first that cast away her shroud; and the eloquent Petrarch, by
his lessons and his example, may justly be applauded as the first
harbinger of day. A purer style of composition, a more generous
and rational strain of sentiment, flowed from the study and
imitation of the writers of ancient Rome; and the disciples of
Cicero and Virgil approached, with reverence and love, the
sanctuary of their Grecian masters. In the sack of
Constantinople, the French, and even the Venetians, had despised
and destroyed the works of Lysippus and Homer: the monuments of
art may be annihilated by a single blow; but the immortal mind is
renewed and multiplied by the copies of the pen; and such copies
it was the ambition of Petrarch and his friends to possess and
understand. The arms of the Turks undoubtedly pressed the flight
of the Muses; yet we may tremble at the thought, that Greece
might have been overwhelmed, with her schools and libraries,
before Europe had emerged from the deluge of barbarism; that the
seeds of science might have been scattered by the winds, before
the Italian soil was prepared for their cultivation.</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: See the state of learning in the xiiith and
xivth centuries, in the learned and judicious Mosheim, (Instit.
Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. p. 434--440, 490--494.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: At the end of the xvth century, there existed in
Europe about fifty universities, and of these the foundation of
ten or twelve is prior to the year 1300. They were crowded in
proportion to their scarcity. Bologna contained 10,000 students,
chiefly of the civil law. In the year 1357 the number at Oxford
had decreased from 30,000 to 6000 scholars, (Henry's History of
Great Britain, vol. iv. p. 478.) Yet even this decrease is much
superior to the present list of the members of the
university.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVI: Union Of The Greek And Latin
Churches. -- Part IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>The most learned Italians of the fifteenth century have
confessed and applauded the restoration of Greek literature,
after a long oblivion of many hundred years. ^85 Yet in that
country, and beyond the Alps, some names are quoted; some
profound scholars, who in the darker ages were honorably
distinguished by their knowledge of the Greek tongue; and
national vanity has been loud in the praise of such rare examples
of erudition. Without scrutinizing the merit of individuals,
truth must observe, that their science is without a cause, and
without an effect; that it was easy for them to satisfy
themselves and their more ignorant contemporaries; and that the
idiom, which they had so marvellously acquired was transcribed in
few manuscripts, and was not taught in any university of the
West. In a corner of Italy, it faintly existed as the popular, or
at least as the ecclesiastical dialect. ^86 The first impression
of the Doric and Ionic colonies has never been completely erased:
the Calabrian churches were long attached to the throne of
Constantinople: and the monks of St. Basil pursued their studies
in Mount Athos and the schools of the East. Calabria was the
native country of Barlaam, who has already appeared as a sectary
and an ambassador; and Barlaam was the first who revived, beyond
the Alps, the memory, or at least the writings, of Homer. ^87 He
is described, by Petrarch and Boccace, ^88 as a man of diminutive
stature, though truly great in the measure of learning and
genius; of a piercing discernment, though of a slow and painful
elocution. For many ages (as they affirm) Greece had not produced
his equal in the knowledge of history, grammar, and philosophy;
and his merit was celebrated in the attestations of the princes
and doctors of Constantinople. One of these attestations is still
extant; and the emperor Cantacuzene, the protector of his
adversaries, is forced to allow, that Euclid, Aristotle, and
Plato, were familiar to that profound and subtle logician. ^89 In
the court of Avignon, he formed an intimate connection with
Petrarch, ^90 the first of the Latin scholars; and the desire of
mutual instruction was the principle of their literary commerce.
The Tuscan applied himself with eager curiosity and assiduous
diligence to the study of the Greek language; and in a laborious
struggle with the dryness and difficulty of the first rudiments,
he began to reach the sense, and to feel the spirit, of poets and
philosophers, whose minds were congenial to his own. But he was
soon deprived of the society and lessons of this useful
assistant: Barlaam relinquished his fruitless embassy; and, on
his return to Greece, he rashly provoked the swarms of fanatic
monks, by attempting to substitute the light of reason to that of
their navel. After a separation of three years, the two friends
again met in the court of Naples: but the generous pupil
renounced the fairest occasion of improvement; and by his
recommendation Barlaam was finally settled in a small bishopric
of his native Calabria. ^91 The manifold avocations of Petrarch,
love and friendship, his various correspondence and frequent
journeys, the Roman laurel, and his elaborate compositions in
prose and verse, in Latin and Italian, diverted him from a
foreign idiom; and as he advanced in life, the attainment of the
Greek language was the object of his wishes rather than of his
hopes. When he was about fifty years of age, a Byzantine
ambassador, his friend, and a master of both tongues, presented
him with a copy of Homer; and the answer of Petrarch is at one
expressive of his eloquence, gratitude, and regret. After
celebrating the generosity of the donor, and the value of a gift
more precious in his estimation than gold or rubies, he thus
proceeds: "Your present of the genuine and original text of the
divine poet, the fountain of all inventions, is worthy of
yourself and of me: you have fulfilled your promise, and
satisfied my desires. Yet your liberality is still imperfect:
with Homer you should have given me yourself; a guide, who could
lead me into the fields of light, and disclose to my wondering
eyes the spacious miracles of the Iliad and Odyssey. But, alas!
Homer is dumb, or I am deaf; nor is it in my power to enjoy the
beauty which I possess. I have seated him by the side of Plato,
the prince of poets near the prince of philosophers; and I glory
in the sight of my illustrious guests. Of their immortal
writings, whatever had been translated into the Latin idiom, I
had already acquired; but, if there be no profit, there is some
pleasure, in beholding these venerable Greeks in their proper and
national habit. I am delighted with the aspect of Homer; and as
often as I embrace the silent volume, I exclaim with a sigh,
Illustrious bard! with what pleasure should I listen to thy song,
if my sense of hearing were not obstructed and lost by the death
of one friend, and in the much-lamented absence of another. Nor
do I yet despair; and the example of Cato suggests some comfort
and hope, since it was in the last period of age that he attained
the knowledge of the Greek letters." ^92</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: Of those writers who professedly treat of the
restoration of the Greek learning in Italy, the two principal are
Hodius, Dr. Humphrey Hody, (de Gr&aelig;cis Illustribus,
Lingu&aelig; Gr&aelig;c&aelig; Literarumque humaniorum
Instauratoribus; Londini, 1742, in large octavo,) and Tiraboschi,
(Istoria della Letteratura Italiana, tom. v. p. 364--377, tom.
vii. p. 112--143.) The Oxford professor is a laborious scholar,
but the librarian of Modena enjoys the superiority of a modern
and national historian.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: In Calabria qu&aelig; olim magna Gr&aelig;cia
dicebatur, coloniis Gr&aelig;cis repleta, remansit qu&aelig;dam
lingu&aelig; veteris, cognitio, (Hodius, p. 2.) If it were
eradicated by the Romans, it was revived and perpetuated by the
monks of St. Basil, who possessed seven convents at Rossano
alone, (Giannone, Istoria di Napoli, tom. i. p. 520.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: Ii Barbari (says Petrarch, the French and
Germans) vix, non dicam libros sed nomen Homeri audiverunt.
Perhaps, in that respect, the xiiith century was less happy than
the age of Charlemagne.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: See the character of Barlaam, in Boccace de
Genealog. Deorum, l. xv. c. 6.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: Cantacuzen. l. ii. c. 36.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: For the connection of Petrarch and Barlaam, and
the two interviews at Avignon in 1339, and at Naples in 1342, see
the excellent M&eacute;moires sur la Vie de P&eacute;trarque,
tom. i. p. 406--410, tom. ii. p. 74--77.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: The bishopric to which Barlaam retired, was the
old Locri, in the middle ages. Scta. Cyriaca, and by corruption
Hieracium, Gerace, (Dissert. Chorographica Itali&aelig; Medii
&AElig;vi, p. 312.) The dives opum of the Norman times soon
lapsed into poverty, since even the church was poor: yet the town
still contains 3000 inhabitants, (Swinburne, p. 340.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: I will transcribe a passage from this epistle of
Petrarch, (Famil. ix. 2;) Donasti Homerum non in alienum sermonem
violento alve&acirc; ?? derivatum, sed ex ipsis Gr&aelig;ci
eloquii scatebris, et qualis divino illi profluxit ingenio . . .
. Sine tu&acirc; voce Homerus tuus apud me mutus, immo vero ego
apud illum surdus sum. Gaudeo tamen vel adspect&ucirc; solo, ac
s&aelig;pe illum amplexus atque suspirans dico, O magne vir,
&amp;c.]</p>

<p>The prize which eluded the efforts of Petrarch, was obtained
by the fortune and industry of his friend Boccace, ^93 the father
of the Tuscan prose. That popular writer, who derives his
reputation from the Decameron, a hundred novels of pleasantry and
love, may aspire to the more serious praise of restoring in Italy
the study of the Greek language. In the year one thousand three
hundred and sixty, a disciple of Barlaam, whose name was Leo, or
Leontius Pilatus, was detained in his way to Avignon by the
advice and hospitality of Boccace, who lodged the stranger in his
house, prevailed on the republic of Florence to allow him an
annual stipend, and devoted his leisure to the first Greek
professor, who taught that language in the Western countries of
Europe. The appearance of Leo might disgust the most eager
disciple, he was clothed in the mantle of a philosopher, or a
mendicant; his countenance was hideous; his face was overshadowed
with black hair; his beard long an uncombed; his deportment
rustic; his temper gloomy and inconstant; nor could he grace his
discourse with the ornaments, or even the perspicuity, of Latin
elocution. But his mind was stored with a treasure of Greek
learning: history and fable, philosophy and grammar, were alike
at his command; and he read the poems of Homer in the schools of
Florence. It was from his explanation that Boccace composed ^*
and transcribed a literal prose version of the Iliad and Odyssey,
which satisfied the thirst of his friend Petrarch, and which,
perhaps, in the succeeding century, was clandestinely used by
Laurentius Valla, the Latin interpreter. It was from his
narratives that the same Boccace collected the materials for his
treatise on the genealogy of the heathen gods, a work, in that
age, of stupendous erudition, and which he ostentatiously
sprinkled with Greek characters and passages, to excite the
wonder and applause of his more ignorant readers. ^94 The first
steps of learning are slow and laborious; no more than ten
votaries of Homer could be enumerated in all Italy; and neither
Rome, nor Venice, nor Naples, could add a single name to this
studious catalogue. But their numbers would have multiplied,
their progress would have been accelerated, if the inconstant
Leo, at the end of three years, had not relinquished an honorable
and beneficial station. In his passage, Petrarch entertained him
at Padua a short time: he enjoyed the scholar, but was justly
offended with the gloomy and unsocial temper of the man.
Discontented with the world and with himself, Leo depreciated his
present enjoyments, while absent persons and objects were dear to
his imagination. In Italy he was a Thessalian, in Greece a native
of Calabria: in the company of the Latins he disdained their
language, religion, and manners: no sooner was he landed at
Constantinople, than he again sighed for the wealth of Venice and
the elegance of Florence. His Italian friends were deaf to his
importunity: he depended on their curiosity and indulgence, and
embarked on a second voyage; but on his entrance into the
Adriatic, the ship was assailed by a tempest, and the unfortunate
teacher, who like Ulysses had fastened himself to the mast, was
struck dead by a flash of lightning. The humane Petrarch dropped
a tear on his disaster; but he was most anxious to learn whether
some copy of Euripides or Sophocles might not be saved from the
hands of the mariners. ^95</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: For the life and writings of Boccace, who was
born in 1313, and died in 1375, Fabricius (Bibliot. Latin. Medii
&AElig;vi, tom. i. p. 248, &amp;c.) and Tiraboschi (tom. v. p.
83, 439--451) may be consulted. The editions, versions,
imitations of his novels, are innumerable. Yet he was ashamed to
communicate that trifling, and perhaps scandalous, work to
Petrarch, his respectable friend, in whose letters and memoirs he
conspicuously appears.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This translation of Homer was by Pilatus, not by
Boccacio. See Hallam, Hist. of Lit. vol. i. p. 132. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: Boccace indulges an honest vanity: Ostentationis
caus&acirc; Gr&aelig;ca carmina adscripsi . . . . jure utor meo;
meum est hoc decus, mea gloria scilicet inter Etruscos
Gr&aelig;cis uti carminibus. Nonne ego fui qui Leontium Pilatum,
&amp;c., (de Genealogia Deorum, l. xv. c. 7, a work which, though
now forgotten, has run through thirteen or fourteen
editions.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: Leontius, or Leo Pilatus, is sufficiently made
known by Hody, (p. 2--11,) and the abb&eacute; de Sade, (Vie de
P&eacute;trarque, tom. iii. p. 625--634, 670--673,) who has very
happily caught the lively and dramatic manner of his
original.]</p>

<p>But the faint rudiments of Greek learning, which Petrarch had
encouraged and Boccace had planted, soon withered and expired.
The succeeding generation was content for a while with the
improvement of Latin eloquence; nor was it before the end of the
fourteenth century that a new and perpetual flame was rekindled
in Italy. ^96 Previous to his own journey the emperor Manuel
despatched his envoys and orators to implore the compassion of
the Western princes. Of these envoys, the most conspicuous, or
the most learned, was Manuel Chrysoloras, ^97 of noble birth, and
whose Roman ancestors are supposed to have migrated with the
great Constantine. After visiting the courts of France and
England, where he obtained some contributions and more promises,
the envoy was invited to assume the office of a professor; and
Florence had again the honor of this second invitation. By his
knowledge, not only of the Greek, but of the Latin tongue,
Chrysoloras deserved the stipend, and surpassed the expectation,
of the republic. His school was frequented by a crowd of
disciples of every rank and age; and one of these, in a general
history, has described his motives and his success. "At that
time," says Leonard Aretin, ^98 "I was a student of the civil
law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters; and I
bestowed some application on the sciences of logic and rhetoric.
On the arrival of Manuel, I hesitated whether I should desert my
legal studies, or relinquish this golden opportunity; and thus,
in the ardor of youth, I communed with my own mind -- Wilt thou
be wanting to thyself and thy fortune? Wilt thou refuse to be
introduced to a familiar converse with Homer, Plato, and
Demosthenes; with those poets, philosophers, and orators, of whom
such wonders are related, and who are celebrated by every age as
the great masters of human science? Of professors and scholars in
civil law, a sufficient supply will always be found in our
universities; but a teacher, and such a teacher, of the Greek
language, if he once be suffered to escape, may never afterwards
be retrieved. Convinced by these reasons, I gave myself to
Chrysoloras; and so strong was my passion, that the lessons which
I had imbibed in the day were the constant object of my nightly
dreams." ^99 At the same time and place, the Latin classics were
explained by John of Ravenna, the domestic pupil of Petrarch;
^100 the Italians, who illustrated their age and country, were
formed in this double school; and Florence became the fruitful
seminary of Greek and Roman erudition. ^101 The presence of the
emperor recalled Chrysoloras from the college to the court; but
he afterwards taught at Pavia and Rome with equal industry and
applause. The remainder of his life, about fifteen years, was
divided between Italy and Constantinople, between embassies and
lessons. In the noble office of enlightening a foreign nation,
the grammarian was not unmindful of a more sacred duty to his
prince and country; and Emanuel Chrysoloras died at Constance on
a public mission from the emperor to the council.</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: Dr. Hody (p. 54) is angry with Leonard Aretin,
Guarinus, Paulus Jovius, &amp;c., for affirming, that the Greek
letters were restored in Italy <strong><em>post septingentos
annos</em></strong>; as if, says he, they had flourished till the
end of the viith century. These writers most probably reckoned
from the last period of the exarchate; and the presence of the
Greek magistrates and troops at Ravenna and Rome must have
preserved, in some degree, the use of their native tongue.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: See the article of Emanuel, or Manuel
Chrysoloras, in Hody (p 12--54) and Tiraboschi, (tom. vii. p.
113--118.) The precise date of his arrival floats between the
years 1390 and 1400, and is only confined by the reign of
Boniface IX.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 98: The name of <strong><em>Aretinus</em></strong>
has been assumed by five or six natives of
<strong><em>Arezzo</em></strong> in Tuscany, of whom the most
famous and the most worthless lived in the xvith century.
Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, the disciple of Chrysoloras, was a
linguist, an orator, and an historian, the secretary of four
successive popes, and the chancellor of the republic of Florence,
where he died A.D. 1444, at the age of seventy-five, (Fabric.
Bibliot. Medii &AElig;vi, tom. i. p. 190 &amp;c. Tiraboschi, tom.
vii. p. 33--38.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 99: See the passage in Aretin. Commentario Rerum suo
Tempore in Italia gestarum, apud Hodium, p. 28--30.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 100: In this domestic discipline, Petrarch, who
loved the youth, often complains of the eager curiosity, restless
temper, and proud feelings, which announce the genius and glory
of a riper age, (M&eacute;moires sur P&eacute;trarque, tom. iii.
p. 700--709.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 101: Hinc Gr&aelig;c&aelig; Latin&aelig;que
schol&aelig; exort&aelig; sunt, Guarino Philelpho, Leonardo
Aretino, Caroloque, ac plerisque aliis tanquam ex equo Trojano
prodeuntibus, quorum emulatione multa ingenia deinceps ad laudem
excitata sunt, (Platina in Bonifacio IX.) Another Italian writer
adds the names of Paulus Petrus Vergerius, Omnibonus Vincentius,
Poggius, Franciscus Barbarus, &amp;c. But I question whether a
rigid chronology would allow Chrysoloras
<strong><em>all</em></strong> these eminent scholars, (Hodius, p.
25--27, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>After his example, the restoration of the Greek letters in
Italy was prosecuted by a series of emigrants, who were destitute
of fortune, and endowed with learning, or at least with language.
From the terror or oppression of the Turkish arms, the natives of
Thessalonica and Constantinople escaped to a land of freedom,
curiosity, and wealth. The synod introduced into Florence the
lights of the Greek church, and the oracles of the Platonic
philosophy; and the fugitives who adhered to the union, had the
double merit of renouncing their country, not only for the
Christian, but for the catholic cause. A patriot, who sacrifices
his party and conscience to the allurements of favor, may be
possessed, however, of the private and social virtues: he no
longer hears the reproachful epithets of slave and apostate; and
the consideration which he acquires among his new associates will
restore in his own eyes the dignity of his character. The prudent
conformity of Bessarion was rewarded with the Roman purple: he
fixed his residence in Italy; and the Greek cardinal, the titular
patriarch of Constantinople, was respected as the chief and
protector of his nation: ^102 his abilities were exercised in the
legations of Bologna, Venice, Germany, and France; and his
election to the chair of St. Peter floated for a moment on the
uncertain breath of a conclave. ^103 His ecclesiastical honors
diffused a splendor and preeminence over his literary merit and
service: his palace was a school; as often as the cardinal
visited the Vatican, he was attended by a learned train of both
nations; ^104 of men applauded by themselves and the public; and
whose writings, now overspread with dust, were popular and useful
in their own times. I shall not attempt to enumerate the
restorers of Grecian literature in the fifteenth century; and it
may be sufficient to mention with gratitude the names of Theodore
Gaza, of George of Trebizond, of John Argyropulus, and Demetrius
Chalcocondyles, who taught their native language in the schools
of Florence and Rome. Their labors were not inferior to those of
Bessarion, whose purple they revered, and whose fortune was the
secret object of their envy. But the lives of these grammarians
were humble and obscure: they had declined the lucrative paths of
the church; their dress and manners secluded them from the
commerce of the world; and since they were confined to the merit,
they might be content with the rewards, of learning. From this
character, Janus Lascaris ^105 will deserve an exception. His
eloquence, politeness, and Imperial descent, recommended him to
the French monarch; and in the same cities he was alternately
employed to teach and to negotiate. Duty and interest prompted
them to cultivate the study of the Latin language; and the most
successful attained the faculty of writing and speaking with
fluency and elegance in a foreign idiom. But they ever retained
the inveterate vanity of their country: their praise, or at least
their esteem, was reserved for the national writers, to whom they
owed their fame and subsistence; and they sometimes betrayed
their contempt in licentious criticism or satire on Virgil's
poetry, and the oratory of Tully. ^106 The superiority of these
masters arose from the familiar use of a living language; and
their first disciples were incapable of discerning how far they
had degenerated from the knowledge, and even the practice of
their ancestors. A vicious pronunciation, ^107 which they
introduced, was banished from the schools by the reason of the
succeeding age. Of the power of the Greek accents they were
ignorant; and those musical notes, which, from an Attic tongue,
and to an Attic ear, must have been the secret soul of harmony,
were to their eyes, as to our own, no more than minute and
unmeaning marks, in prose superfluous and troublesome in verse.
The art of grammar they truly possessed; the valuable fragments
of Apollonius and Herodian were transfused into their lessons;
and their treatises of syntax and etymology, though devoid of
philosophic spirit, are still useful to the Greek student. In the
shipwreck of the Byzantine libraries, each fugitive seized a
fragment of treasure, a copy of some author, who without his
industry might have perished: the transcripts were multiplied by
an assiduous, and sometimes an elegant pen; and the text was
corrected and explained by their own comments, or those of the
elder scholiasts. The sense, though not the spirit, of the Greek
classics, was interpreted to the Latin world: the beauties of
style evaporate in a version; but the judgment of Theodore Gaza
selected the more solid works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, and
their natural histories of animals and plants opened a rich fund
of genuine and experimental science.</p>

<p>[Footnote 102: See in Hody the article of Bessarion, (p.
136--177.) Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond, aud the rest of
the Greeks whom I have named or omitted, are inserted in their
proper chapters of his learned work. See likewise Tiraboschi, in
the 1st and 2d parts of the vith tome.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 103: The cardinals knocked at his door, but his
conclavist refused to interrupt the studies of Bessarion:
"Nicholas," said he, "thy respect has cost thee a hat, and me the
tiara." *</p>

<p>Note: * Roscoe (Life of Lorenzo de Medici, vol. i. p. 75)
considers that Hody has refuted this "idle tale." -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 104: Such as George of Trebizond, Theodore Gaza,
Argyropulus, Andronicus of Thessalonica, Philelphus, Poggius,
Blondus, Nicholas Perrot, Valla, Campanus, Platina, &amp;c. Viri
(says Hody, with the pious zeal of a scholar) nullo &aelig;vo
perituri, p. 156.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 105: He was born before the taking of
Constantinople, but his honorable life was stretched far into the
xvith century, (A.D. 1535.) Leo X. and Francis I. were his
noblest patrons, under whose auspices he founded the Greek
colleges of Rome and Paris, (Hody, p. 247--275.) He left
posterity in France; but the counts de Vintimille, and their
numerous branches, derive the name of Lascaris from a doubtful
marriage in the xiiith century with the daughter of a Greek
emperor (Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 224--230.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 106: Two of his epigrams against Virgil, and three
against Tully, are preserved and refuted by Franciscus Floridus,
who can find no better names than Gr&aelig;culus ineptus et
impudens, (Hody, p. 274.) In our own times, an English critic has
accused the &AElig;neid of containing multa languida, nugatoria,
spirit&ucirc; et majestate carminis heroici defecta; many such
verses as he, the said Jeremiah Markland, would have been ashamed
of owning, (pr&aelig;fat. ad Statii Sylvas, p. 21, 22.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 107: Emanuel Chrysoloras, and his colleagues, are
accused of ignorance, envy, or avarice, (Sylloge, &amp;c., tom.
ii. p. 235.) The modern Greeks pronounce the b as a V consonant,
and confound three vowels, (h i u,) and several diphthongs. Such
was the vulgar pronunciation which the stern Gardiner maintained
by penal statutes in the university of Cambridge: but the
monosyllable bh represented to an Attic ear the bleating of
sheep, and a bellwether is better evidence than a bishop or a
chancellor. The treatises of those scholars, particularly
Erasmus, who asserted a more classical pronunciation, are
collected in the Sylloge of Havercamp, (2 vols. in octavo, Lugd.
Bat. 1736, 1740:) but it is difficult to paint sounds by words:
and in their reference to modern use, they can be understood only
by their respective countrymen. We may observe, that our peculiar
pronunciation of the O, th, is approved by Erasmus, (tom. ii. p.
130.)]</p>

<p>Yet the fleeting shadows of metaphysics were pursued with more
curiosity and ardor. After a long oblivion, Plato was revived in
Italy by a venerable Greek, ^108 who taught in the house of Cosmo
of Medicis. While the synod of Florence was involved in
theological debate, some beneficial consequences might flow from
the study of his elegant philosophy: his style is the purest
standard of the Attic dialect, and his sublime thoughts are
sometimes adapted to familiar conversation, and sometimes adorned
with the richest colors of poetry and eloquence. The dialogues of
Plato are a dramatic picture of the life and death of a sage;
and, as often as he descends from the clouds, his moral system
inculcates the love of truth, of our country, and of mankind. The
precept and example of Socrates recommended a modest doubt and
liberal inquiry; and if the Platonists, with blind devotion,
adored the visions and errors of their divine master, their
enthusiasm might correct the dry, dogmatic method of the
Peripatetic school. So equal, yet so opposite, are the merits of
Plato and Aristotle, that they may be balanced in endless
controversy; but some spark of freedom may be produced by the
collision of adverse servitude. The modern Greeks were divided
between the two sects: with more fury than skill they fought
under the banner of their leaders; and the field of battle was
removed in their flight from Constantinople to Rome. But this
philosophical debate soon degenerated into an angry and personal
quarrel of grammarians; and Bessarion, though an advocate for
Plato, protected the national honor, by interposing the advice
and authority of a mediator. In the gardens of the Medici, the
academical doctrine was enjoyed by the polite and learned: but
their philosophic society was quickly dissolved; and if the
writings of the Attic sage were perused in the closet, the more
powerful Stagyrite continued to reign, the oracle of the church
and school. ^109</p>

<p>[Footnote 108: George Gemistus Pletho, a various and
voluminous writer, the master of Bessarion, and all the
Platonists of the times. He visited Italy in his old age, and
soon returned to end his days in Peloponnesus. See the curious
Diatribe of Leo Allatius de Georgiis, in Fabricius. (Bibliot.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 739--756.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 109: The state of the Platonic philosophy in Italy
is illustrated by Boivin, (M&eacute;m. de l'Acad. des
Inscriptions, tom. ii. p. 715--729,) and Tiraboschi, (tom. vi. P.
i. p. 259--288.)]</p>

<p>I have fairly represented the literary merits of the Greeks;
yet it must be confessed, that they were seconded and surpassed
by the ardor of the Latins. Italy was divided into many
independent states; and at that time it was the ambition of
princes and republics to vie with each other in the encouragement
and reward of literature. The fame of Nicholas the Fifth ^110 has
not been adequate to his merits. From a plebeian origin he raised
himself by his virtue and learning: the character of the man
prevailed over the interest of the pope; and he sharpened those
weapons which were soon pointed against the Roman church. ^111 He
had been the friend of the most eminent scholars of the age: he
became their patron; and such was the humility of his manners,
that the change was scarcely discernible either to them or to
himself. If he pressed the acceptance of a liberal gift, it was
not as the measure of desert, but as the proof of benevolence;
and when modest merit declined his bounty, "Accept it," would he
say, with a consciousness of his own worth: "ye will not always
have a Nicholas among you." The influence of the holy see
pervaded Christendom; and he exerted that influence in the
search, not of benefices, but of books. From the ruins of the
Byzantine libraries, from the darkest monasteries of Germany and
Britain, he collected the dusty manuscripts of the writers of
antiquity; and wherever the original could not be removed, a
faithful copy was transcribed and transmitted for his use. The
Vatican, the old repository for bulls and legends, for
superstition and forgery, was daily replenished with more
precious furniture; and such was the industry of Nicholas, that
in a reign of eight years he formed a library of five thousand
volumes. To his munificence the Latin world was indebted for the
versions of Xenophon, Diodorus, Polybius, Thucydides, Herodotus,
and Appian; of Strabo's Geography, of the Iliad, of the most
valuable works of Plato and Aristotle, of Ptolemy and
Theophrastus, and of the fathers of the Greek church. The example
of the Roman pontiff was preceded or imitated by a Florentine
merchant, who governed the republic without arms and without a
title. Cosmo of Medicis ^112 was the father of a line of princes,
whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of
learning: his credit was ennobled into fame; his riches were
dedicated to the service of mankind; he corresponded at once with
Cairo and London: and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books
was often imported in the same vessel. The genius and education
of his grandson Lorenzo rendered him not only a patron, but a
judge and candidate, in the literary race. In his palace,
distress was entitled to relief, and merit to reward: his leisure
hours were delightfully spent in the Platonic academy; he
encouraged the emulation of Demetrius Chalcocondyles and Angelo
Politian; and his active missionary Janus Lascaris returned from
the East with a treasure of two hundred manuscripts, fourscore of
which were as yet unknown in the libraries of Europe. ^113 The
rest of Italy was animated by a similar spirit, and the progress
of the nation repaid the liberality of their princes. The Latins
held the exclusive property of their own literature; and these
disciples of Greece were soon capable of transmitting and
improving the lessons which they had imbibed. After a short
succession of foreign teachers, the tide of emigration subsided;
but the language of Constantinople was spread beyond the Alps and
the natives of France, Germany, and England, ^114 imparted to
their country the sacred fire which they had kindled in the
schools of Florence and Rome. ^115 In the productions of the
mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled
by industry and skill: the Greek authors, forgotten on the banks
of the Ilissus, have been illustrated on those of the Elbe and
the Thames: and Bessarion or Gaza might have envied the superior
science of the Barbarians; the accuracy of Bud&aelig;us, the
taste of Erasmus, the copiousness of Stephens, the erudition of
Scaliger, the discernment of Reiske, or of Bentley. On the side
of the Latins, the discovery of printing was a casual advantage:
but this useful art has been applied by Aldus, and his
innumerable successors, to perpetuate and multiply the works of
antiquity. ^116 A single manuscript imported from Greece is
revived in ten thousand copies; and each copy is fairer than the
original. In this form, Homer and Plato would peruse with more
satisfaction their own writings; and their scholiasts must resign
the prize to the labors of our Western editors.</p>

<p>[Footnote 110: See the Life of Nicholas V. by two contemporary
authors, Janottus Manettus, (tom. iii. P. ii. p. 905--962,) and
Vespasian of Florence, (tom. xxv. p. 267--290,) in the collection
of Muratori; and consult Tiraboschi, (tom. vi. P. i. p. 46--52,
109,) and Hody in the articles of Theodore Gaza, George of
Trebizond, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 111: Lord Bolingbroke observes, with truth and
spirit, that the popes in this instance, were worse politicians
than the muftis, and that the charm which had bound mankind for
so many ages was broken by the magicians themselves, (Letters on
the Study of History, l. vi. p. 165, 166, octavo edition,
1779.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 112: See the literary history of Cosmo and Lorenzo
of Medicis, in Tiraboschi, (tom. vi. P. i. l. i. c. 2,) who
bestows a due measure of praise on Alphonso of Arragon, king of
Naples, the dukes of Milan, Ferrara Urbino, &amp;c. The republic
of Venice has deserved the least from the gratitude of
scholars.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 113: Tiraboschi, (tom. vi. P. i. p. 104,) from the
preface of Janus Lascaris to the Greek Anthology, printed at
Florence, 1494. Latebant (says Aldus in his preface to the Greek
orators, apud Hodium, p. 249) in Atho Thraci&aelig; monte. Eas
Lascaris . . . . in Italiam reportavit. Miserat enim ipsum
Laurentius ille Medices in Gr&aelig;ciam ad inquirendos simul, et
quantovis emendos pretio bonos libros. It is remarkable enough,
that the research was facilitated by Sultan Bajazet II.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 114: The Greek language was introduced into the
university of Oxford in the last years of the xvth century, by
Grocyn, Linacer, and Latimer, who had all studied at Florence
under Demetrius Chalcocondyles. See Dr. Knight's curious Life of
Erasmus. Although a stout academical patriot, he is forced to
acknowledge that Erasmus learned Greek at Oxford, and taught it
at Cambridge.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 115: The jealous Italians were desirous of keeping a
monopoly of Greek learning. When Aldus was about to publish the
Greek scholiasts on Sophocles and Euripides, Cave, (said they,)
cave hoc facias, ne <strong><em>Barbari</em></strong> istis
adjuti domi maneant, et pauciores in Italiam ventitent, (Dr.
Knight, in his Life of Erasmus, p. 365, from Beatus
Rhemanus.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 116: The press of Aldus Manutius, a Roman, was
established at Venice about the year 1494: he printed above sixty
considerable works of Greek literature, almost all for the first
time; several containing different treatises and authors, and of
several authors, two, three, or four editions, (Fabric. Bibliot.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. xiii. p. 605, &amp;c.) Yet his glory must not
tempt us to forget, that the first Greek book, the Grammar of
Constantine Lascaris, was printed at Milan in 1476; and that the
Florence Homer of 1488 displays all the luxury of the
typographical art. See the Annales Typographical of Mattaire, and
the Bibliographie Instructive of De Bure, a knowing bookseller of
Paris.]</p>

<p>Before the revival of classic literature, the Barbarians in
Europe were immersed in ignorance; and their vulgar tongues were
marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The
students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and Greece were
introduced to a new world of light and science; to the society of
the free and polished nations of antiquity; and to a familiar
converse with those immortal men who spoke the sublime language
of eloquence and reason. Such an intercourse must tend to refine
the taste, and to elevate the genius, of the moderns; and yet,
from the first experiments, it might appear that the study of the
ancients had given fetters, rather than wings, to the human mind.
However laudable, the spirit of imitation is of a servile cast;
and the first disciples of the Greeks and Romans were a colony of
strangers in the midst of their age and country. The minute and
laborious diligence which explored the antiquities of remote
times might have improved or adorned the present state of
society, the critic and metaphysician were the slaves of
Aristotle; the poets, historians, and orators, were proud to
repeat the thoughts and words of the Augustan age: the works of
nature were observed with the eyes of Pliny and Theophrastus; and
some Pagan votaries professed a secret devotion to the gods of
Homer and Plato. ^117 The Italians were oppressed by the strength
and number of their ancient auxiliaries: the century after the
deaths of Petrarch and Boccace was filled with a crowd of Latin
imitators, who decently repose on our shelves; but in that
&aelig;ra of learning it will not be easy to discern a real
discovery of science, a work of invention or eloquence, in the
popular language of the country. ^118 But as soon as it had been
deeply saturated with the celestial dew, the soil was quickened
into vegetation and life; the modern idioms were refined; the
classics of Athens and Rome inspired a pure taste and a generous
emulation; and in Italy, as afterwards in France and England, the
pleasing reign of poetry and fiction was succeeded by the light
of speculative and experimental philosophy. Genius may anticipate
the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in
that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the
powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist
hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the
works of his predecessors.</p>

<p>[Footnote 117: I will select three singular examples of this
classic enthusiasm. I. At the synod of Florence, Gemistus Pletho
said, in familiar conversation to George of Trebizond, that in a
short time mankind would unanimously renounce the Gospel and the
Koran, for a religion similar to that of the Gentiles, (Leo
Allatius, apud Fabricium, tom. x. p. 751.) 2. Paul II. persecuted
the Roman academy, which had been founded by Pomponius
L&aelig;tus; and the principal members were accused of heresy,
impiety, and <strong><em>paganism</em></strong>, (Tiraboschi,
tom. vi. P. i. p. 81, 82.) 3. In the next century, some scholars
and poets in France celebrated the success of Jodelle's tragedy
of Cleopatra, by a festival of Bacchus, and, as it is said, by
the sacrifice of a goat, (Bayle, Dictionnaire, Jodelle.
Fontenelle, tom. iii. p. 56--61.) Yet the spirit of bigotry might
often discern a serious impiety in the sportive play of fancy and
learning.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 118: The survivor Boccace died in the year 1375; and
we cannot place before 1480 the composition of the Morgante
Maggiore of Pulci and the Orlando Innamorato of Boyardo,
(Tiraboschi, tom. vi. P. ii. p. 174--177.)]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXVII: Schism Of The Greeks And
Latins.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Schism Of The Greeks And Latins. -- Reign And Character Of
Amurath The Second. -- Crusade Of Ladislaus, King Of Hungary. --
His Defeat And Death. -- John Huniades. -- Scanderbeg. --
Constantine Pal&aelig;ologus, Last Emperor Of The East.</p>

<p>The respective merits of Rome and Constantinople are compared
and celebrated by an eloquent Greek, the father of the Italian
schools. ^1 The view of the ancient capital, the seat of his
ancestors, surpassed the most sanguine expectations of Emanuel
Chrysoloras; and he no longer blamed the exclamation of an old
sophist, that Rome was the habitation, not of men, but of gods.
Those gods, and those men, had long since vanished; but to the
eye of liberal enthusiasm, the majesty of ruin restored the image
of her ancient prosperity. The monuments of the consuls and
C&aelig;sars, of the martyrs and apostles, engaged on all sides
the curiosity of the philosopher and the Christian; and he
confessed that in every age the arms and the religion of Rome
were destined to reign over the earth. While Chrysoloras admired
the venerable beauties of the mother, he was not forgetful of his
native country, her fairest daughter, her Imperial colony; and
the Byzantine patriot expatiates with zeal and truth on the
eternal advantages of nature, and the more transitory glories of
art and dominion, which adorned, or had adorned, the city of
Constantine. Yet the perfection of the copy still redounds (as he
modestly observes) to the honor of the original, and parents are
delighted to be renewed, and even excelled, by the superior merit
of their children. "Constantinople," says the orator, "is situate
on a commanding point, between Europe and Asia, between the
Archipelago and the Euxine. By her interposition, the two seas,
and the two continents, are united for the common benefit of
nations; and the gates of commerce may be shut or opened at her
command. The harbor, encompassed on all sides by the sea, and the
continent, is the most secure and capacious in the world. The
walls and gates of Constantinople may be compared with those of
Babylon: the towers many; each tower is a solid and lofty
structure; and the second wall, the outer fortification, would be
sufficient for the defence and dignity of an ordinary capital. A
broad and rapid stream may be introduced into the ditches and the
artificial island may be encompassed, like Athens, ^2 by land or
water." Two strong and natural causes are alleged for the
perfection of the model of new Rome. The royal founder reigned
over the most illustrious nations of the globe; and in the
accomplishment of his designs, the power of the Romans was
combined with the art and science of the Greeks. Other cities
have been reared to maturity by accident and time: their beauties
are mingled with disorder and deformity; and the inhabitants,
unwilling to remove from their natal spot, are incapable of
correcting the errors of their ancestors, and the original vices
of situation or climate. But the free idea of Constantinople was
formed and executed by a single mind; and the primitive model was
improved by the obedient zeal of the subjects and successors of
the first monarch. The adjacent isles were stored with an
inexhaustible supply of marble; but the various materials were
transported from the most remote shores of Europe and Asia; and
the public and private buildings, the palaces, churches,
aqueducts, cisterns, porticos, columns, baths, and hippodromes,
were adapted to the greatness of the capital of the East. The
superfluity of wealth was spread along the shores of Europe and
Asia; and the Byzantine territory, as far as the Euxine, the
Hellespont, and the long wall, might be considered as a populous
suburb and a perpetual garden. In this flattering picture, the
past and the present, the times of prosperity and decay, are art
fully confounded; but a sigh and a confession escape, from the
orator, that his wretched country was the shadow and sepulchre of
its former self. The works of ancient sculpture had been defaced
by Christian zeal or Barbaric violence; the fairest structures
were demolished; and the marbles of Paros or Numidia were burnt
for lime, or applied to the meanest uses. Of many a statue, the
place was marked by an empty pedestal; of many a column, the size
was determined by a broken capital; the tombs of the emperors
were scattered on the ground; the stroke of time was accelerated
by storms and earthquakes; and the vacant space was adorned, by
vulgar tradition, with fabulous monuments of gold and silver.
From these wonders, which lived only in memory or belief, he
distinguishes, however, the porphyry pillar, the column and
colossus of Justinian, ^3 and the church, more especially the
dome, of St. Sophia; the best conclusion, since it could not be
described according to its merits, and after it no other object
could deserve to be mentioned. But he forgets that, a century
before, the trembling fabrics of the colossus and the church had
been saved and supported by the timely care of Andronicus the
Elder. Thirty years after the emperor had fortified St. Sophia
with two new buttresses or pyramids, the eastern hemisphere
suddenly gave way: and the images, the altars, and the sanctuary,
were crushed by the falling ruin. The mischief indeed was
speedily repaired; the rubbish was cleared by the incessant labor
of every rank and age; and the poor remains of riches and
industry were consecrated by the Greeks to the most stately and
venerable temple of the East. ^4</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: The epistle of Emanuel Chrysoloras to the emperor
John Pal&aelig;ologus will not offend the eye or ear of a
classical student, (ad calcem Codini de Antiquitatibus C. P. p.
107--126.) The superscription suggests a chronological remark,
that John Pal&aelig;ologus II. was associated in the empire
before the year 1414, the date of Chrysoloras's death. A still
earlier date, at least 1408, is deduced from the age of his
youngest sons, Demetrius and Thomas, who were both
<strong><em>Porphyrogeniti</em></strong> (Ducange, Fam. Byzant.
p. 244, 247.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: Somebody observed that the city of Athens might
be circumnavigated, (tiV eipen tin polin tvn Aqhnaiwn dunasqai
kai paraplein kai periplein.) But what may be true in a
rhetorical sense of Constantinople, cannot be applied to the
situation of Athens, five miles from the sea, and not intersected
or surrounded by any navigable streams.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Nicephorus Gregoras has described the Colossus of
Justinian, (l. vii. 12:) but his measures are false and
inconsistent. The editor Boivin consulted his friend Girardon;
and the sculptor gave him the true proportions of an equestrian
statue. That of Justinian was still visible to Peter Gyllius, not
on the column, but in the outward court of the seraglio; and he
was at Constantinople when it was melted down, and cast into a
brass cannon, (de Topograph. C. P. l. ii. c. 17.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: See the decay and repairs of St. Sophia, in
Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii. 12, l. xv. 2.) The building was
propped by Andronicus in 1317, the eastern hemisphere fell in
1345. The Greeks, in their pompous rhetoric, exalt the beauty and
holiness of the church, an earthly heaven the abode of angels,
and of God himself, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>The last hope of the falling city and empire was placed in the
harmony of the mother and daughter, in the maternal tenderness of
Rome, and the filial obedience of Constantinople. In the synod of
Florence, the Greeks and Latins had embraced, and subscribed, and
promised; but these signs of friendship were perfidious or
fruitless; ^5 and the baseless fabric of the union vanished like
a dream. ^6 The emperor and his prelates returned home in the
Venetian galleys; but as they touched at the Morea and the Isles
of Corfu and Lesbos, the subjects of the Latins complained that
the pretended union would be an instrument of oppression. No
sooner did they land on the Byzantine shore, than they were
saluted, or rather assailed, with a general murmur of zeal and
discontent. During their absence, above two years, the capital
had been deprived of its civil and ecclesiastical rulers;
fanaticism fermented in anarchy; the most furious monks reigned
over the conscience of women and bigots; and the hatred of the
Latin name was the first principle of nature and religion. Before
his departure for Italy, the emperor had flattered the city with
the assurance of a prompt relief and a powerful succor; and the
clergy, confident in their orthodoxy and science, had promised
themselves and their flocks an easy victory over the blind
shepherds of the West. The double disappointment exasperated the
Greeks; the conscience of the subscribing prelates was awakened;
the hour of temptation was past; and they had more to dread from
the public resentment, than they could hope from the favor of the
emperor or the pope. Instead of justifying their conduct, they
deplored their weakness, professed their contrition, and cast
themselves on the mercy of God and of their brethren. To the
reproachful question, what had been the event or the use of their
Italian synod? they answered with sighs and tears, "Alas! we have
made a new faith; we have exchanged piety for impiety; we have
betrayed the immaculate sacrifice; and we are become
<strong><em>Azymites</em></strong>." (The Azymites were those who
celebrated the communion with unleavened bread; and I must
retract or qualify the praise which I have bestowed on the
growing philosophy of the times.) "Alas! we have been seduced by
distress, by fraud, and by the hopes and fears of a transitory
life. The hand that has signed the union should be cut off; and
the tongue that has pronounced the Latin creed deserves to be
torn from the root." The best proof of their repentance was an
increase of zeal for the most trivial rites and the most
incomprehensible doctrines; and an absolute separation from all,
without excepting their prince, who preserved some regard for
honor and consistency. After the decease of the patriarch Joseph,
the archbishops of Heraclea and Trebizond had courage to refuse
the vacant office; and Cardinal Bessarion preferred the warm and
comfortable shelter of the Vatican. The choice of the emperor and
his clergy was confined to Metrophanes of Cyzicus: he was
consecrated in St. Sophia, but the temple was vacant. The
cross-bearers abdicated their service; the infection spread from
the city to the villages; and Metrophanes discharged, without
effect, some ecclesiastical thunders against a nation of
schismatics. The eyes of the Greeks were directed to Mark of
Ephesus, the champion of his country; and the sufferings of the
holy confessor were repaid with a tribute of admiration and
applause. His example and writings propagated the flame of
religious discord; age and infirmity soon removed him from the
world; but the gospel of Mark was not a law of forgiveness; and
he requested with his dying breath, that none of the adherents of
Rome might attend his obsequies or pray for his soul.</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: The genuine and original narrative of Syropulus
(p. 312--351) opens the schism from the first
<strong><em>office</em></strong> of the Greeks at Venice to the
general opposition at Constantinople, of the clergy and
people.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: On the schism of Constantinople, see Phranza, (l.
ii. c. 17,) Laonicus Chalcondyles, (l. vi. p. 155, 156,) and
Ducas, (c. 31;) the last of whom writes with truth and freedom.
Among the moderns we may distinguish the continuator of Fleury,
(tom. xxii. p. 338, &amp;c., 401, 420, &amp;c.,) and Spondanus,
(A.D. 1440--50.) The sense of the latter is drowned in prejudice
and passion, as soon as Rome and religion are concerned.]</p>

<p>The schism was not confined to the narrow limits of the
Byzantine empire. Secure under the Mamaluke sceptre, the three
patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, assembled a
numerous synod; disowned their representatives at Ferrara and
Florence; condemned the creed and council of the Latins; and
threatened the emperor of Constantinople with the censures of the
Eastern church. Of the sectaries of the Greek communion, the
Russians were the most powerful, ignorant, and superstitious.
Their primate, the cardinal Isidore, hastened from Florence to
Moscow, ^7 to reduce the independent nation under the Roman yoke.
But the Russian bishops had been educated at Mount Athos; and the
prince and people embraced the theology of their priests. They
were scandalized by the title, the pomp, the Latin cross of the
legate, the friend of those impious men who shaved their beards,
and performed the divine office with gloves on their hands and
rings on their fingers: Isidore was condemned by a synod; his
person was imprisoned in a monastery; and it was with extreme
difficulty that the cardinal could escape from the hands of a
fierce and fanatic people. ^8 The Russians refused a passage to
the missionaries of Rome who aspired to convert the Pagans beyond
the Tanais; ^9 and their refusal was justified by the maxim, that
the guilt of idolatry is less damnable than that of schism. The
errors of the Bohemians were excused by their abhorrence for the
pope; and a deputation of the Greek clergy solicited the
friendship of those sanguinary enthusiasts. ^10 While Eugenius
triumphed in the union and orthodoxy of the Greeks, his party was
contracted to the walls, or rather to the palace of
Constantinople. The zeal of Pal&aelig;ologus had been excited by
interest; it was soon cooled by opposition: an attempt to violate
the national belief might endanger his life and crown; not could
the pious rebels be destitute of foreign and domestic aid. The
sword of his brother Demetrius, who in Italy had maintained a
prudent and popular silence, was half unsheathed in the cause of
religion; and Amurath, the Turkish sultan, was displeased and
alarmed by the seeming friendship of the Greeks and Latins.</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: Isidore was metropolitan of Kiow, but the Greeks
subject to Poland have removed that see from the ruins of Kiow to
Lemberg, or Leopold, (Herbestein, in Ramusio, tom. ii. p. 127.)
On the other hand, the Russians transferred their spiritual
obedience to the archbishop, who became, in 1588, the patriarch,
of Moscow, (Levesque Hist. de Russie, tom. iii. p. 188, 190, from
a Greek MS. at Turin, Iter et labores Archiepiscopi
Arsenii.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: The curious narrative of Levesque (Hist. de
Russie, tom. ii. p. 242--247) is extracted from the patriarchal
archives. The scenes of Ferrara and Florence are described by
ignorance and passion; but the Russians are credible in the
account of their own prejudices.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: The Shamanism, the ancient religion of the
Saman&aelig;ans and Gymnosophists, has been driven by the more
popular Bramins from India into the northern deserts: the naked
philosophers were compelled to wrap themselves in fur; but they
insensibly sunk into wizards and physicians. The Mordvans and
Tcheremisses in the European Russia adhere to this religion,
which is formed on the earthly model of one king or God, his
ministers or angels, and the rebellious spirits who oppose his
government. As these tribes of the Volga have no images, they
might more justly retort on the Latin missionaries the name of
idolaters, (Levesque, Hist. des Peuples soumis &agrave; la
Domination des Russes, tom. i. p. 194--237, 423--460.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: Spondanus, Annal. Eccles. tom ii. A.D. 1451, No.
13. The epistle of the Greeks with a Latin version, is extant in
the college library at Prague.]</p>

<p>"Sultan Murad, or Amurath, lived forty-nine, and reigned
thirty years, six months, and eight days. He was a just and
valiant prince, of a great soul, patient of labors, learned,
merciful, religious, charitable; a lover and encourager of the
studious, and of all who excelled in any art or science; a good
emperor and a great general. No man obtained more or greater
victories than Amurath; Belgrade alone withstood his attacks. ^*
Under his reign, the soldier was ever victorious, the citizen
rich and secure. If he subdued any country, his first care was to
build mosques and caravansaras, hospitals, and colleges. Every
year he gave a thousand pieces of gold to the sons of the
Prophet; and sent two thousand five hundred to the religious
persons of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem." ^11 This portrait is
transcribed from the historian of the Othman empire: but the
applause of a servile and superstitious people has been lavished
on the worst of tyrants; and the virtues of a sultan are often
the vices most useful to himself, or most agreeable to his
subjects. A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and
law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty
of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion,
of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness. If the most reasonable
excuse be rejected, few acts of obedience will be found
impossible; and guilt must tremble, where innocence cannot always
be secure. The tranquillity of the people, and the discipline of
the troops, were best maintained by perpetual action in the
field; war was the trade of the Janizaries; and those who
survived the peril, and divided the spoil, applauded the generous
ambition of their sovereign. To propagate the true religion, was
the duty of a faithful Mussulman: the unbelievers were
<strong><em>his</em></strong> enemies, and those of the Prophet;
and, in the hands of the Turks, the cimeter was the only
instrument of conversion. Under these circumstances, however, the
justice and moderation of Amurath are attested by his conduct,
and acknowledged by the Christians themselves; who consider a
prosperous reign and a peaceful death as the reward of his
singular merits. In the vigor of his age and military power, he
seldom engaged in war till he was justified by a previous and
adequate provocation: the victorious sultan was disarmed by
submission; and in the observance of treaties, his word was
inviolate and sacred. ^12 The Hungarians were commonly the
aggressors; he was provoked by the revolt of Scanderbeg; and the
perfidious Caramanian was twice vanquished, and twice pardoned,
by the Ottoman monarch. Before he invaded the Morea, Thebes had
been surprised by the despot: in the conquest of Thessalonica,
the grandson of Bajazet might dispute the recent purchase of the
Venetians; and after the first siege of Constantinople, the
sultan was never tempted, by the distress, the absence, or the
injuries of Pal&aelig;ologus, to extinguish the dying light of
the Byzantine empire.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See the siege and massacre at Thessalonica. Von
Hammer vol. i p. 433. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: See Cantemir, History of the Othman Empire, p.
94. Murad, or Morad, may be more correct: but I have preferred
the popular name to that obscure diligence which is rarely
successful in translating an Oriental, into the Roman,
alphabet.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: See Chalcondyles, (l. vii. p. 186, 198,) Ducas,
(c. 33,) and Marinus Barletius, (in Vit. Scanderbeg, p. 145,
146.) In his good faith towards the garrison of Sfetigrade, he
was a lesson and example to his son Mahomet.]</p>

<p>But the most striking feature in the life and character of
Amurath is the double abdication of the Turkish throne; and, were
not his motives debased by an alloy of superstition, we must
praise the royal philosopher, ^13 who at the age of forty could
discern the vanity of human greatness. Resigning the sceptre to
his son, he retired to the pleasant residence of Magnesia; but he
retired to the society of saints and hermits. It was not till the
fourth century of the Hegira, that the religion of Mahomet had
been corrupted by an institution so adverse to his genius; but in
the age of the crusades, the various orders of Dervises were
multiplied by the example of the Christian, and even the Latin,
monks. ^14 The lord of nations submitted to fast, and pray, and
turn round ^* in endless rotation with the fanatics, who mistook
the giddiness of the head for the illumination of the spirit. ^15
But he was soon awakened from his dreams of enthusiasm by the
Hungarian invasion; and his obedient son was the foremost to urge
the public danger and the wishes of the people. Under the banner
of their veteran leader, the Janizaries fought and conquered but
he withdrew from the field of Varna, again to pray, to fast, and
to turn round with his Magnesian brethren. These pious
occupations were again interrupted by the danger of the state. A
victorious army disdained the inexperience of their youthful
ruler: the city of Adrianople was abandoned to rapine and
slaughter; and the unanimous divan implored his presence to
appease the tumult, and prevent the rebellion, of the Janizaries.
At the well-known voice of their master, they trembled and
obeyed; and the reluctant sultan was compelled to support his
splendid servitude, till at the end of four years, he was
relieved by the angel of death. Age or disease, misfortune or
caprice, have tempted several princes to descend from the throne;
and they have had leisure to repent of their irretrievable step.
But Amurath alone, in the full liberty of choice, after the trial
of empire and solitude, has <strong><em>repeated</em></strong>
his preference of a private life.</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: Voltaire (Essai sur l'Histoire
G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, c. 89, p. 283, 284) admires
<strong><em>le Philosophe Turc:</em></strong> would he have
bestowed the same praise on a Christian prince for retiring to a
monastery? In his way, Voltaire was a bigot, an intolerant
bigot.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: See the articles
<strong><em>Dervische</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Fakir</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Nasser</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Rohbaniat</em></strong>, in D'Herbelot's
Biblioth&egrave;que Orientale. Yet the subject is superficially
treated from the Persian and Arabian writers. It is among the
Turks that these orders have principally flourished.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Gibbon has fallen into a remarkable error. The
unmonastic retreat of Amurath was that of an epicurean rather
than of a dervis; more like that of Sardanapalus than of Charles
the Fifth. Profane, not divine, love was its chief occupation:
the only dance, that described by Horace as belonging to the
country, motus doceri gaudet Ionicos. See Von Hammer note, p.
652. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Ricaut (in the Present State of the Ottoman
Empire, p. 242--268) affords much information, which he drew from
his personal conversation with the heads of the dervises, most of
whom ascribed their origin to the time of Orchan. He does not
mention the <strong><em>Zichid</em></strong> of Chalcondyles, (l.
vii. p. 286,) among whom Amurath retired: the
<strong><em>Seids</em></strong> of that author are the
descendants of Mahomet.]</p>

<p>After the departure of his Greek brethren, Eugenius had not
been unmindful of their temporal interest; and his tender regard
for the Byzantine empire was animated by a just apprehension of
the Turks, who approached, and might soon invade, the borders of
Italy. But the spirit of the crusades had expired; and the
coldness of the Franks was not less unreasonable than their
headlong passion. In the eleventh century, a fanatic monk could
precipitate Europe on Asia for the recovery of the holy
sepulchre; but in the fifteenth, the most pressing motives of
religion and policy were insufficient to unite the Latins in the
defence of Christendom. Germany was an inexhaustible storehouse
of men and arms: ^16 but that complex and languid body required
the impulse of a vigorous hand; and Frederic the Third was alike
impotent in his personal character and his Imperial dignity. A
long war had impaired the strength, without satiating the
animosity, of France and England: ^17 but Philip duke of Burgundy
was a vain and magnificent prince; and he enjoyed, without danger
or expense, the adventurous piety of his subjects, who sailed, in
a gallant fleet, from the coast of Flanders to the Hellespont.
The maritime republics of Venice and Genoa were less remote from
the scene of action; and their hostile fleets were associated
under the standard of St. Peter. The kingdoms of Hungary and
Poland, which covered as it were the interior pale of the Latin
church, were the most nearly concerned to oppose the progress of
the Turks. Arms were the patrimony of the Scythians and
Sarmatians; and these nations might appear equal to the contest,
could they point, against the common foe, those swords that were
so wantonly drawn in bloody and domestic quarrels. But the same
spirit was adverse to concord and obedience: a poor country and a
limited monarch are incapable of maintaining a standing force;
and the loose bodies of Polish and Hungarian horse were not armed
with the sentiments and weapons which, on some occasions, have
given irresistible weight to the French chivalry. Yet, on this
side, the designs of the Roman pontiff, and the eloquence of
Cardinal Julian, his legate, were promoted by the circumstances
of the times: ^18 by the union of the two crowns on the head of
Ladislaus, ^19 a young and ambitious soldier; by the valor of a
hero, whose name, the name of John Huniades, was already popular
among the Christians, and formidable to the Turks. An endless
treasure of pardons and indulgences was scattered by the legate;
many private warriors of France and Germany enlisted under the
holy banner; and the crusade derived some strength, or at least
some reputation, from the new allies both of Europe and Asia. A
fugitive despot of Servia exaggerated the distress and ardor of
the Christians beyond the Danube, who would unanimously rise to
vindicate their religion and liberty. The Greek emperor, ^20 with
a spirit unknown to his fathers, engaged to guard the Bosphorus,
and to sally from Constantinople at the head of his national and
mercenary troops. The sultan of Caramania ^21 announced the
retreat of Amurath, and a powerful diversion in the heart of
Anatolia; and if the fleets of the West could occupy at the same
moment the Straits of the Hellespont, the Ottoman monarchy would
be dissevered and destroyed. Heaven and earth must rejoice in the
perdition of the miscreants; and the legate, with prudent
ambiguity, instilled the opinion of the invisible, perhaps the
visible, aid of the Son of God, and his divine mother.</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: In the year 1431, Germany raised 40,000 horse,
men-at-arms, against the Hussites of Bohemia, (Lenfant, Hist. du
Concile de Basle, tom. i. p. 318.) At the siege of Nuys, on the
Rhine, in 1474, the princes, prelates, and cities, sent their
respective quotas; and the bishop of Munster (qui n'est pas des
plus grands) furnished 1400 horse, 6000 foot, all in green, with
1200 wagons. The united armies of the king of England and the
duke of Burgundy scarcely equalled one third of this German host,
(M&eacute;moires de Philippe de Comines, l. iv. c. 2.) At
present, six or seven hundred thousand men are maintained in
constant pay and admirable discipline by the powers of
Germany.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: It was not till the year 1444, that France and
England could agree on a truce of some months. (See Rymer's
Fdera, and the chronicles of both nations.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: In the Hungarian crusade, Spondanus (Annal.
Eccl&eacute;s. A.D. 1443, 1444) has been my leading guide. He has
diligently read, and critically compared, the Greek and Turkish
materials, the historians of Hungary, Poland, and the West. His
narrative is perspicuous and where he can be free from a
religious bias, the judgment of Spondanus is not
contemptible.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: I have curtailed the harsh letter (Wladislaus)
which most writers affix to his name, either in compliance with
the Polish pronunciation, or to distinguish him from his rival
the infant Ladislaus of Austria. Their competition for the crown
of Hungary is described by Callimachus, (l. i. ii. p. 447--486,)
Bonfinius, (Decad. iii. l. iv.,) Spondanus, and Lenfant.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: The Greek historians, Phranza, Chalcondyles, and
Ducas, do not ascribe to their prince a very active part in this
crusade, which he seems to have promoted by his wishes, and
injured by his fears.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: Cantemir (p. 88) ascribes to his policy the
original plan, and transcribes his animating epistle to the king
of Hungary. But the Mahometan powers are seldom it formed of the
state of Christendom and the situation and correspondence of the
knights of Rhodes must connect them with the sultan of
Caramania.]</p>

<p>Of the Polish and Hungarian diets, a religious war was the
unanimous cry; and Ladislaus, after passing the Danube, led an
army of his confederate subjects as far as Sophia, the capital of
the Bulgarian kingdom. In this expedition they obtained two
signal victories, which were justly ascribed to the valor and
conduct of Huniades. In the first, with a vanguard of ten
thousand men, he surprised the Turkish camp; in the second, he
vanquished and made prisoner the most renowned of their generals,
who possessed the double advantage of ground and numbers. The
approach of winter, and the natural and artificial obstacles of
Mount H&aelig;mus, arrested the progress of the hero, who
measured a narrow interval of six days' march from the foot of
the mountains to the hostile towers of Adrianople, and the
friendly capital of the Greek empire. The retreat was
undisturbed; and the entrance into Buda was at once a military
and religious triumph. An ecclesiastical procession was followed
by the king and his warriors on foot: he nicely balanced the
merits and rewards of the two nations; and the pride of conquest
was blended with the humble temper of Christianity. Thirteen
bashaws, nine standards, and four thousand captives, were
unquestionable trophies; and as all were willing to believe, and
none were present to contradict, the crusaders multiplied, with
unblushing confidence, the myriads of Turks whom they had left on
the field of battle. ^22 The most solid proof, and the most
salutary consequence, of victory, was a deputation from the divan
to solicit peace, to restore Servia, to ransom the prisoners, and
to evacuate the Hungarian frontier. By this treaty, the rational
objects of the war were obtained: the king, the despot, and
Huniades himself, in the diet of Segedin, were satisfied with
public and private emolument; a truce of ten years was concluded;
and the followers of Jesus and Mahomet, who swore on the Gospel
and the Koran, attested the word of God as the guardian of truth
and the avenger of perfidy. In the place of the Gospel, the
Turkish ministers had proposed to substitute the Eucharist, the
real presence of the Catholic deity; but the Christians refused
to profane their holy mysteries; and a superstitious conscience
is less forcibly bound by the spiritual energy, than by the
outward and visible symbols of an oath. ^23</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: In their letters to the emperor Frederic III.
the Hungarians slay 80,000 Turks in one battle; but the modest
Julian reduces the slaughter to 6000 or even 2000 infidels,
(&AElig;neas Sylvius in Europ. c. 5, and epist. 44, 81, apud
Spondanum.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: See the origin of the Turkish war, and the first
expedition of Ladislaus, in the vth and vith books of the iiid
decad of Bonfinius, who, in his division and style, copies Livy
with tolerable success Callimachus (l. ii p. 487--496) is still
more pure and authentic.]</p>

<p>During the whole transaction, the cardinal legate had observed
a sullen silence, unwilling to approve, and unable to oppose, the
consent of the king and people. But the diet was not dissolved
before Julian was fortified by the welcome intelligence, that
Anatolia was invaded by the Caramanian, and Thrace by the Greek
emperor; that the fleets of Genoa, Venice, and Burgundy, were
masters of the Hellespont; and that the allies, informed of the
victory, and ignorant of the treaty, of Ladislaus, impatiently
waited for the return of his victorious army. "And is it thus,"
exclaimed the cardinal, ^24 "that you will desert their
expectations and your own fortune? It is to them, to your God,
and your fellow-Christians, that you have pledged your faith; and
that prior obligation annihilates a rash and sacrilegious oath to
the enemies of Christ. His vicar on earth is the Roman pontiff;
without whose sanction you can neither promise nor perform. In
his name I absolve your perjury and sanctify your arms: follow my
footsteps in the paths of glory and salvation; and if still ye
have scruples, devolve on my head the punishment and the sin."
This mischievous casuistry was seconded by his respectable
character, and the levity of popular assemblies: war was
resolved, on the same spot where peace had so lately been sworn;
and, in the execution of the treaty, the Turks were assaulted by
the Christians; to whom, with some reason, they might apply the
epithet of Infidels. The falsehood of Ladislaus to his word and
oath was palliated by the religion of the times: the most
perfect, or at least the most popular, excuse would have been the
success of his arms and the deliverance of the Eastern church.
But the same treaty which should have bound his conscience had
diminished his strength. On the proclamation of the peace, the
French and German volunteers departed with indignant murmurs: the
Poles were exhausted by distant warfare, and perhaps disgusted
with foreign command; and their palatines accepted the first
license, and hastily retired to their provinces and castles. Even
Hungary was divided by faction, or restrained by a laudable
scruple; and the relics of the crusade that marched in the second
expedition were reduced to an inadequate force of twenty thousand
men. A Walachian chief, who joined the royal standard with his
vassals, presumed to remark that their numbers did not exceed the
hunting retinue that sometimes attended the sultan; and the gift
of two horses of matchless speed might admonish Ladislaus of his
secret foresight of the event. But the despot of Servia, after
the restoration of his country and children, was tempted by the
promise of new realms; and the inexperience of the king, the
enthusiasm of the legate, and the martial presumption of Huniades
himself, were persuaded that every obstacle must yield to the
invincible virtue of the sword and the cross. After the passage
of the Danube, two roads might lead to Constantinople and the
Hellespont: the one direct, abrupt, and difficult through the
mountains of H&aelig;mus; the other more tedious and secure, over
a level country, and along the shores of the Euxine; in which
their flanks, according to the Scythian discipline, might always
be covered by a movable fortification of wagons. The latter was
judiciously preferred: the Catholics marched through the plains
of Bulgaria, burning, with wanton cruelty, the churches and
villages of the Christian natives; and their last station was at
Warna, near the sea-shore; on which the defeat and death of
Ladislaus have bestowed a memorable name. ^25</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: I do not pretend to warrant the literal accuracy
of Julian's speech, which is variously worded by Callimachus, (l.
iii. p. 505--507,) Bonfinius, (dec. iii. l. vi. p. 457, 458,) and
other historians, who might indulge their own eloquence, while
they represent one of the orators of the age. But they all agree
in the advice and arguments for perjury, which in the field of
controversy are fiercely attacked by the Protestants, and feebly
defended by the Catholics. The latter are discouraged by the
misfortune of Warna.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: Warna, under the Grecian name of Odessus, was a
colony of the Milesians, which they denominated from the hero
Ulysses, (Cellarius, tom. i. p. 374. D'Anville, tom. i. p. 312.)
According to Arrian's Periplus of the Euxine, (p. 24, 25, in the
first volume of Hudson's Geographers,) it was situate 1740
stadia, or furlongs, from the mouth of the Danube, 2140 from
Byzantium, and 360 to the north of a ridge of promontory of Mount
H&aelig;mus, which advances into the sea.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVII: Schism Of The Greeks And Latins. --
Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>It was on this fatal spot, that, instead of finding a
confederate fleet to second their operations, they were alarmed
by the approach of Amurath himself, who had issued from his
Magnesian solitude, and transported the forces of Asia to the
defence of Europe. According to some writers, the Greek emperor
had been awed, or seduced, to grant the passage of the Bosphorus;
and an indelible stain of corruption is fixed on the Genoese, or
the pope's nephew, the Catholic admiral, whose mercenary
connivance betrayed the guard of the Hellespont. From Adrianople,
the sultan advanced by hasty marches, at the head of sixty
thousand men; and when the cardinal, and Huniades, had taken a
nearer survey of the numbers and order of the Turks, these ardent
warriors proposed the tardy and impracticable measure of a
retreat. The king alone was resolved to conquer or die; and his
resolution had almost been crowned with a glorious and salutary
victory. The princes were opposite to each other in the centre;
and the Beglerbegs, or generals of Anatolia and Romania,
commanded on the right and left, against the adverse divisions of
the despot and Huniades. The Turkish wings were broken on the
first onset: but the advantage was fatal; and the rash victors,
in the heat of the pursuit, were carried away far from the
annoyance of the enemy, or the support of their friends. When
Amurath beheld the flight of his squadrons, he despaired of his
fortune and that of the empire: a veteran Janizary seized his
horse's bridle; and he had magnanimity to pardon and reward the
soldier who dared to perceive the terror, and arrest the flight,
of his sovereign. A copy of the treaty, the monument of Christian
perfidy, had been displayed in the front of battle; and it is
said, that the sultan in his distress, lifting his eyes and his
hands to heaven, implored the protection of the God of truth; and
called on the prophet Jesus himself to avenge the impious mockery
of his name and religion. ^26 With inferior numbers and
disordered ranks, the king of Hungary rushed forward in the
confidence of victory, till his career was stopped by the
impenetrable phalanx of the Janizaries. If we may credit the
Ottoman annals, his horse was pierced by the javelin of Amurath;
^27 he fell among the spears of the infantry; and a Turkish
soldier proclaimed with a loud voice, "Hungarians, behold the
head of your king!" The death of Ladislaus was the signal of
their defeat. On his return from an intemperate pursuit, Huniades
deplored his error, and the public loss; he strove to rescue the
royal body, till he was overwhelmed by the tumultuous crowd of
the victors and vanquished; and the last efforts of his courage
and conduct were exerted to save the remnant of his Walachian
cavalry. Ten thousand Christians were slain in the disastrous
battle of Warna: the loss of the Turks, more considerable in
numbers, bore a smaller proportion to their total strength; yet
the philosophic sultan was not ashamed to confess, that his ruin
must be the consequence of a second and similar victory. ^* At
his command a column was erected on the spot where Ladislaus had
fallen; but the modest inscription, instead of accusing the
rashness, recorded the valor, and bewailed the misfortune, of the
Hungarian youth. ^28</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: Some Christian writers affirm, that he drew from
his bosom the host or wafer on which the treaty had
<strong><em>not</em></strong> been sworn. The Moslems suppose,
with more simplicity, an appeal to God and his prophet Jesus,
which is likewise insinuated by Callimachus, (l. iii. p. 516.
Spondan. A.D. 1444, No. 8.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: A critic will always distrust these
<strong><em>spolia opima</em></strong> of a victorious general,
so difficult for valor to obtain, so easy for flattery to invent,
(Cantemir, p. 90, 91.) Callimachus (l. iii. p. 517) more simply
and probably affirms, supervenitibus Janizaris, telorum
multitudine, non jam confossus est, quam obrutus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Compare Von Hammer, p. 463. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Besides some valuable hints from &AElig;neas
Sylvius, which are diligently collected by Spondanus, our best
authorities are three historians of the xvth century, Philippus
Callimachus, (de Rebus a Vladislao Polonorum atque Hungarorum
Rege gestis, libri iii. in Bel. Script. Rerum Hungaricarum, tom.
i. p. 433--518,) Bonfinius, (decad. iii. l. v. p. 460--467,) and
Chalcondyles, (l. vii. p. 165--179.) The two first were Italians,
but they passed their lives in Poland and Hungary, (Fabric.
Bibliot. Latin. Med. et Infim&aelig; &AElig;tatis, tom. i. p.
324. Vossius, de Hist. Latin. l. iii. c. 8, 11. Bayle,
Dictionnaire, Bonfinius.) A small tract of F&aelig;lix Petancius,
chancellor of Segnia, (ad calcem Cuspinian. de C&aelig;saribus,
p. 716--722,) represents the theatre of the war in the xvth
century.]</p>

<p>Before I lose sight of the field of Warna, I am tempted to
pause on the character and story of two principal actors, the
cardinal Julian and John Huniades. Julian ^29 C&aelig;sarini was
born of a noble family of Rome: his studies had embraced both the
Latin and Greek learning, both the sciences of divinity and law;
and his versatile genius was equally adapted to the schools, the
camp, and the court. No sooner had he been invested with the
Roman purple, than he was sent into Germany to arm the empire
against the rebels and heretics of Bohemia. The spirit of
persecution is unworthy of a Christian; the military profession
ill becomes a priest; but the former is excused by the times; and
the latter was ennobled by the courage of Julian, who stood
dauntless and alone in the disgraceful flight of the German host.
As the pope's legate, he opened the council of Basil; but the
president soon appeared the most strenuous champion of
ecclesiastical freedom; and an opposition of seven years was
conducted by his ability and zeal. After promoting the strongest
measures against the authority and person of Eugenius, some
secret motive of interest or conscience engaged him to desert on
a sudden the popular party. The cardinal withdrew himself from
Basil to Ferrara; and, in the debates of the Greeks and Latins,
the two nations admired the dexterity of his arguments and the
depth of his theological erudition. ^30 In his Hungarian embassy,
we have already seen the mischievous effects of his sophistry and
eloquence, of which Julian himself was the first victim. The
cardinal, who performed the duties of a priest and a soldier, was
lost in the defeat of Warna. The circumstances of his death are
variously related; but it is believed, that a weighty encumbrance
of gold impeded his flight, and tempted the cruel avarice of some
Christian fugitives.</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: M. Lenfant has described the origin (Hist. du
Concile de Basle, tom. i. p. 247, &amp;c.) and Bohemian campaign
(p. 315, &amp;c.) of Cardinal Julian. His services at Basil and
Ferrara, and his unfortunate end, are occasionally related by
Spondanus, and the continuator of Fleury.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: Syropulus honorably praises the talent of an
enemy, (p. 117:) toiauta tina eipen o IoulianoV peplatusmenwV
agan kai logikwV, kai met episthmhV kai deinothtoV
'RhtprikhV.]</p>

<p>From an humble, or at least a doubtful origin, the merit of
John Huniades promoted him to the command of the Hungarian
armies. His father was a Walachian, his mother a Greek: her
unknown race might possibly ascend to the emperors of
Constantinople; and the claims of the Walachians, with the
surname of Corvinus, from the place of his nativity, might
suggest a thin pretence for mingling his blood with the
patricians of ancient Rome. ^31 In his youth he served in the
wars of Italy, and was retained, with twelve horsemen, by the
bishop of Zagrab: the valor of the <strong><em>white
knight</em></strong> ^32 was soon conspicuous; he increased his
fortunes by a noble and wealthy marriage; and in the defence of
the Hungarian borders he won in the same year three battles
against the Turks. By his influence, Ladislaus of Poland obtained
the crown of Hungary; and the important service was rewarded by
the title and office of Waivod of Transylvania. The first of
Julian's crusades added two Turkish laurels on his brow; and in
the public distress the fatal errors of Warna were forgotten.
During the absence and minority of Ladislaus of Austria, the
titular king, Huniades was elected supreme captain and governor
of Hungary; and if envy at first was silenced by terror, a reign
of twelve years supposes the arts of policy as well as of war.
Yet the idea of a consummate general is not delineated in his
campaigns; the white knight fought with the hand rather than the
head, as the chief of desultory Barbarians, who attack without
fear and fly without shame; and his military life is composed of
a romantic alternative of victories and escapes. By the Turks,
who employed his name to frighten their perverse children, he was
corruptly denominated <strong><em>Jancus Lain</em></strong>, or
the Wicked: their hatred is the proof of their esteem; the
kingdom which he guarded was inaccessible to their arms; and they
felt him most daring and formidable, when they fondly believed
the captain and his country irrecoverably lost. Instead of
confining himself to a defensive war, four years after the defeat
of Warna he again penetrated into the heart of Bulgaria, and in
the plain of Cossova, sustained, till the third day, the shock of
the Ottoman army, four times more numerous than his own. As he
fled alone through the woods of Walachia, the hero was surprised
by two robbers; but while they disputed a gold chain that hung at
his neck, he recovered his sword, slew the one, terrified the
other, and, after new perils of captivity or death, consoled by
his presence an afflicted kingdom. But the last and most glorious
action of his life was the defence of Belgrade against the powers
of Mahomet the Second in person. After a siege of forty days, the
Turks, who had already entered the town, were compelled to
retreat; and the joyful nations celebrated Huniades and Belgrade
as the bulwarks of Christendom. ^33 About a month after this
great deliverance, the champion expired; and his most splendid
epitaph is the regret of the Ottoman prince, who sighed that he
could no longer hope for revenge against the single antagonist
who had triumphed over his arms. On the first vacancy of the
throne, Matthias Corvinus, a youth of eighteen years of age, was
elected and crowned by the grateful Hungarians. His reign was
prosperous and long: Matthias aspired to the glory of a conqueror
and a saint: but his purest merit is the encouragement of
learning; and the Latin orators and historians, who were invited
from Italy by the son, have shed the lustre of their eloquence on
the father's character. ^34</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: See Bonfinius, decad. iii. l. iv. p. 423. Could
the Italian historian pronounce, or the king of Hungary hear,
without a blush, the absurd flattery which confounded the name of
a Walachian village with the casual, though glorious, epithet of
a single branch of the Valerian family at Rome?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: Philip de Comines, (M&eacute;moires, l. vi. c.
13,) from the tradition of the times, mentions him with high
encomiums, but under the whimsical name of the Chevalier Blanc de
Valaigne, (Valachia.) The Greek Chalcondyles, and the Turkish
annals of Leunclavius, presume to accuse his fidelity or
valor.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: See Bonfinius (decad. iii. l. viii. p. 492) and
Spondanus, (A.D. 456, No. 1--7.) Huniades shared the glory of the
defence of Belgrade with Capistran, a Franciscan friar; and in
their respective narratives, neither the saint nor the hero
condescend to take notice of his rival's merit.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: See Bonfinius, decad. iii. l. viii. -- decad.
iv. l. viii. The observations of Spondanus on the life and
character of Matthias Corvinus are curious and critical, (A.D.
1464, No. 1, 1475, No. 6, 1476, No. 14--16, 1490, No. 4, 5.)
Italian fame was the object of his vanity. His actions are
celebrated in the Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum (p. 322--412) of
Peter Ranzanus, a Sicilian. His wise and facetious sayings are
registered by Galestus Martius of Narni, (528--568,) and we have
a particular narrative of his wedding and coronation. These three
tracts are all contained in the first vol. of Bel's Scriptores
Rerum Hungaricarum.]</p>

<p>In the list of heroes, John Huniades and Scanderbeg are
commonly associated; ^35 and they are both entitled to our
notice, since their occupation of the Ottoman arms delayed the
ruin of the Greek empire. John Castriot, the father of
Scanderbeg, ^36 was the hereditary prince of a small district of
Epirus or Albania, between the mountains and the Adriatic Sea.
Unable to contend with the sultan's power, Castriot submitted to
the hard conditions of peace and tribute: he delivered his four
sons as the pledges of his fidelity; and the Christian youths,
after receiving the mark of circumcision, were instructed in the
Mahometan religion, and trained in the arms and arts of Turkish
policy. ^37 The three elder brothers were confounded in the crowd
of slaves; and the poison to which their deaths are ascribed
cannot be verified or disproved by any positive evidence. Yet the
suspicion is in a great measure removed by the kind and paternal
treatment of George Castriot, the fourth brother, who, from his
tender youth, displayed the strength and spirit of a soldier. The
successive overthrow of a Tartar and two Persians, who carried a
proud defiance to the Turkish court, recommended him to the favor
of Amurath, and his Turkish appellation of Scanderbeg,
(<strong><em>Iskender beg</em></strong>,) or the lord Alexander,
is an indelible memorial of his glory and servitude. His father's
principality was reduced into a province; but the loss was
compensated by the rank and title of Sanjiak, a command of five
thousand horse, and the prospect of the first dignities of the
empire. He served with honor in the wars of Europe and Asia; and
we may smile at the art or credulity of the historian, who
supposes, that in every encounter he spared the Christians, while
he fell with a thundering arm on his Mussulman foes. The glory of
Huniades is without reproach: he fought in the defence of his
religion and country; but the enemies who applaud the patriot,
have branded his rival with the name of traitor and apostate. In
the eyes of the Christian, the rebellion of Scanderbeg is
justified by his father's wrongs, the ambiguous death of his
three brothers, his own degradation, and the slavery of his
country; and they adore the generous, though tardy, zeal, with
which he asserted the faith and independence of his ancestors.
But he had imbibed from his ninth year the doctrines of the
Koran; he was ignorant of the Gospel; the religion of a soldier
is determined by authority and habit; nor is it easy to conceive
what new illumination at the age of forty ^38 could be poured
into his soul. His motives would be less exposed to the suspicion
of interest or revenge, had he broken his chain from the moment
that he was sensible of its weight: but a long oblivion had
surely impaired his original right; and every year of obedience
and reward had cemented the mutual bond of the sultan and his
subject. If Scanderbeg had long harbored the belief of
Christianity and the intention of revolt, a worthy mind must
condemn the base dissimulation, that could serve only to betray,
that could promise only to be forsworn, that could actively join
in the temporal and spiritual perdition of so many thousands of
his unhappy brethren. Shall we praise a secret correspondence
with Huniades, while he commanded the vanguard of the Turkish
army? shall we excuse the desertion of his standard, a
treacherous desertion which abandoned the victory to the enemies
of his benefactor? In the confusion of a defeat, the eye of
Scanderbeg was fixed on the Reis Effendi or principal secretary:
with the dagger at his breast, he extorted a firman or patent for
the government of Albania; and the murder of the guiltless scribe
and his train prevented the consequences of an immediate
discovery. With some bold companions, to whom he had revealed his
design he escaped in the night, by rapid marches, from the field
or battle to his paternal mountains. The gates of Croya were
opened to the royal mandate; and no sooner did he command the
fortress, than George Castriot dropped the mask of dissimulation;
abjured the prophet and the sultan, and proclaimed himself the
avenger of his family and country. The names of religion and
liberty provoked a general revolt: the Albanians, a martial race,
were unanimous to live and die with their hereditary prince; and
the Ottoman garrisons were indulged in the choice of martyrdom or
baptism. In the assembly of the states of Epirus, Scanderbeg was
elected general of the Turkish war; and each of the allies
engaged to furnish his respective proportion of men and money.
From these contributions, from his patrimonial estate, and from
the valuable salt-pits of Selina, he drew an annual revenue of
two hundred thousand ducats; ^39 and the entire sum, exempt from
the demands of luxury, was strictly appropriated to the public
use. His manners were popular; but his discipline was severe; and
every superfluous vice was banished from his camp: his example
strengthened his command; and under his conduct, the Albanians
were invincible in their own opinion and that of their enemies.
The bravest adventurers of France and Germany were allured by his
fame and retained in his service: his standing militia consisted
of eight thousand horse and seven thousand foot; the horses were
small, the men were active; but he viewed with a discerning eye
the difficulties and resources of the mountains; and, at the
blaze of the beacons, the whole nation was distributed in the
strongest posts. With such unequal arms Scanderbeg resisted
twenty-three years the powers of the Ottoman empire; and two
conquerors, Amurath the Second, and his greater son, were
repeatedly baffled by a rebel, whom they pursued with seeming
contempt and implacable resentment. At the head of sixty thousand
horse and forty thousand Janizaries, Amurath entered Albania: he
might ravage the open country, occupy the defenceless towns,
convert the churches into mosques, circumcise the Christian
youths, and punish with death his adult and obstinate captives:
but the conquests of the sultan were confined to the petty
fortress of Sfetigrade; and the garrison, invincible to his arms,
was oppressed by a paltry artifice and a superstitious scruple.
^40 Amurath retired with shame and loss from the walls of Croya,
the castle and residence of the Castriots; the march, the siege,
the retreat, were harassed by a vexatious, and almost invisible,
adversary; ^41 and the disappointment might tend to imbitter,
perhaps to shorten, the last days of the sultan. ^42 In the
fulness of conquest, Mahomet the Second still felt at his bosom
this domestic thorn: his lieutenants were permitted to negotiate
a truce; and the Albanian prince may justly be praised as a firm
and able champion of his national independence. The enthusiasm of
chivalry and religion has ranked him with the names of Alexander
and Pyrrhus; nor would they blush to acknowledge their intrepid
countryman: but his narrow dominion, and slender powers, must
leave him at an humble distance below the heroes of antiquity,
who triumphed over the East and the Roman legions. His splendid
achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he
discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his
single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious
criticism. Against an illiterate enemy, and in the dark solitude
of Epirus, his partial biographers may safely indulge the
latitude of romance: but their fictions are exposed by the light
of Italian history; and they afford a strong presumption against
their own truth, by a fabulous tale of his exploits, when he
passed the Adriatic with eight hundred horse to the succor of the
king of Naples. ^43 Without disparagement to his fame, they might
have owned, that he was finally oppressed by the Ottoman powers:
in his extreme danger he applied to Pope Pius the Second for a
refuge in the ecclesiastical state; and his resources were almost
exhausted, since Scanderbeg died a fugitive at Lissus, on the
Venetian territory. ^44 His sepulchre was soon violated by the
Turkish conquerors; but the Janizaries, who wore his bones
enchased in a bracelet, declared by this superstitious amulet
their involuntary reverence for his valor. The instant ruin of
his country may redound to the hero's glory; yet, had he balanced
the consequences of submission and resistance, a patriot perhaps
would have declined the unequal contest which must depend on the
life and genius of one man. Scanderbeg might indeed be supported
by the rational, though fallacious, hope, that the pope, the king
of Naples, and the Venetian republic, would join in the defence
of a free and Christian people, who guarded the sea-coast of the
Adriatic, and the narrow passage from Greece to Italy. His infant
son was saved from the national shipwreck; the Castriots ^45 were
invested with a Neapolitan dukedom, and their blood continues to
flow in the noblest families of the realm. A colony of Albanian
fugitives obtained a settlement in Calabria, and they preserve at
this day the language and manners of their ancestors. ^46</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: They are ranked by Sir William Temple, in his
pleasing Essay on Heroic Virtue, (Works, vol. iii. p. 385,) among
the seven chiefs who have deserved without wearing, a royal
crown; Belisarius, Narses, Gonsalvo of Cordova, William first
prince of Orange, Alexander duke of Parma, John Huniades, and
George Castriot, or Scanderbeg.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: I could wish for some simple authentic memoirs
of a friend of Scanderbeg, which would introduce me to the man,
the time, and the place. In the old and national history of
Marinus Barletius, a priest of Scodra, (de Vita. Moribus, et
Rebus gestis Georgii Castrioti, &amp;c. libri xiii. p. 367.
Argentorat. 1537, in fol.,) his gaudy and cumbersome robes are
stuck with many false jewels. See likewise Chalcondyles, l vii.
p. 185, l. viii. p. 229.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: His circumcision, education, &amp;c., are marked
by Marinus with brevity and reluctance, (l. i. p. 6, 7.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: Since Scanderbeg died A.D. 1466, in the lxiiid
year of his age, (Marinus, l. xiii. p. 370,) he was born in 1403;
since he was torn from his parents by the Turks, when he was
<strong><em>novennis</em></strong>, (Marinus, l. i. p. 1, 6,)
that event must have happened in 1412, nine years before the
accession of Amurath II., who must have inherited, not acquired
the Albanian slave. Spondanus has remarked this inconsistency,
A.D. 1431, No. 31, 1443, No. 14.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: His revenue and forces are luckily given by
Marinus, (l. ii. p. 44.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: There were two Dibras, the upper aud lower, the
Bulgarian and Albanian: the former, 70 miles from Croya, (l. i.
p. 17,) was contiguous to the fortress of Sfetigrade, whose
inhabitants refused to drink from a well into which a dead dog
had traitorously been cast, (l. v. p. 139, 140.) We want a good
map of Epirus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Compare the Turkish narrative of Cantemir (p.
92) with the pompous and prolix declamation in the ivth, vth, and
vith books of the Albanian priest, who has been copied by the
tribe of strangers and moderns.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: In honor of his hero, Barletius (l. vi. p.
188--192) kills the sultan by disease indeed, under the walls of
Croya. But this audacious fiction is disproved by the Greeks and
Turks, who agree in the time and manner of Amurath's death at
Adrianople.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: See the marvels of his Calabrian expedition in
the ixth and xth books of Marinus Barletius, which may be
rectified by the testimony or silence of Muratori, (Annali
d'Italia, tom. xiii. p. 291,) and his original authors, (Joh.
Simonetta de Rebus Francisci Sforti&aelig;, in Muratori, Script.
Rerum Ital. tom. xxi. p. 728, et alios.) The Albanian cavalry,
under the name of <strong><em>Stradiots</em></strong>, soon
became famous in the wars of Italy, (M&eacute;moires de Comines,
l. viii. c. 5.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: Spondanus, from the best evidence, and the most
rational criticism, has reduced the giant Scanderbeg to the human
size, (A.D. 1461, No. 20, 1463, No. 9, 1465, No. 12, 13, 1467,
No. 1.) His own letter to the pope, and the testimony of Phranza,
(l. iii. c. 28,) a refugee in the neighboring isle of Corfu,
demonstrate his last distress, which is awkwardly concealed by
Marinus Barletius, (l. x.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: See the family of the Castriots, in Ducange,
(Fam. Dalmatic&aelig;, &amp;c, xviii. p. 348--350.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: This colony of Albanese is mentioned by Mr.
Swinburne, (Travels into the Two Sicilies, vol. i. p.
350--354.)]</p>

<p>In the long career of the decline and fall of the Roman
empire, I have reached at length the last reign of the princes of
Constantinople, who so feebly sustained the name and majesty of
the C&aelig;sars. On the decease of John Pal&aelig;ologus, who
survived about four years the Hungarian crusade, ^47 the royal
family, by the death of Andronicus and the monastic profession of
Isidore, was reduced to three princes, Constantine, Demetrius,
and Thomas, the surviving sons of the emperor Manuel. Of these
the first and the last were far distant in the Morea; but
Demetrius, who possessed the domain of Selybria, was in the
suburbs, at the head of a party: his ambition was not chilled by
the public distress; and his conspiracy with the Turks and the
schismatics had already disturbed the peace of his country. The
funeral of the late emperor was accelerated with singular and
even suspicious haste: the claim of Demetrius to the vacant
throne was justified by a trite and flimsy sophism, that he was
born in the purple, the eldest son of his father's reign. But the
empress-mother, the senate and soldiers, the clergy and people,
were unanimous in the cause of the lawful successor: and the
despot Thomas, who, ignorant of the change, accidentally returned
to the capital, asserted with becoming zeal the interest of his
absent brother. An ambassador, the historian Phranza, was
immediately despatched to the court of Adrianople. Amurath
received him with honor and dismissed him with gifts; but the
gracious approbation of the Turkish sultan announced his
supremacy, and the approaching downfall of the Eastern empire. By
the hands of two illustrious deputies, the Imperial crown was
placed at Sparta on the head of Constantine. In the spring he
sailed from the Morea, escaped the encounter of a Turkish
squadron, enjoyed the acclamations of his subjects, celebrated
the festival of a new reign, and exhausted by his donatives the
treasure, or rather the indigence, of the state. The emperor
immediately resigned to his brothers the possession of the Morea;
and the brittle friendship of the two princes, Demetrius and
Thomas, was confirmed in their mother's presence by the frail
security of oaths and embraces. His next occupation was the
choice of a consort. A daughter of the doge of Venice had been
proposed; but the Byzantine nobles objected the distance between
an hereditary monarch and an elective magistrate; and in their
subsequent distress, the chief of that powerful republic was not
unmindful of the affront. Constantine afterwards hesitated
between the royal families of Trebizond and Georgia; and the
embassy of Phranza represents in his public and private life the
last days of the Byzantine empire. ^48</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: The Chronology of Phranza is clear and
authentic; but instead of four years and seven months, Spondanus
(A.D. 1445, No. 7,) assigns seven or eight years to the reign of
the last Constantine which he deduces from a spurious epistle of
Eugenius IV. to the king of &AElig;thiopia.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: Phranza (l. iii. c. 1--6) deserves credit and
esteem.]</p>

<p>The <strong><em>protovestiare</em></strong>, or great
chamberlain, Phranza sailed from Constantinople as the minister
of a bridegroom; and the relics of wealth and luxury were applied
to his pompous appearance. His numerous retinue consisted of
nobles and guards, of physicians and monks: he was attended by a
band of music; and the term of his costly embassy was protracted
above two years. On his arrival in Georgia or Iberia, the natives
from the towns and villages flocked around the strangers; and
such was their simplicity, that they were delighted with the
effects, without understanding the cause, of musical harmony.
Among the crowd was an old man, above a hundred years of age, who
had formerly been carried away a captive by the Barbarians, ^49
and who amused his hearers with a tale of the wonders of India,
^50 from whence he had returned to Portugal by an unknown sea.
^51 From this hospitable land, Phranza proceeded to the court of
Trebizond, where he was informed by the Greek prince of the
recent decease of Amurath. Instead of rejoicing in the
deliverance, the experienced statesman expressed his
apprehension, that an ambitious youth would not long adhere to
the sage and pacific system of his father. After the sultan's
decease, his Christian wife, Maria, ^52 the daughter of the
Servian despot, had been honorably restored to her parents; on
the fame of her beauty and merit, she was recommended by the
ambassador as the most worthy object of the royal choice; and
Phranza recapitulates and refutes the specious objections that
might be raised against the proposal. The majesty of the purple
would ennoble an unequal alliance; the bar of affinity might be
removed by liberal alms and the dispensation of the church; the
disgrace of Turkish nuptials had been repeatedly overlooked; and,
though the fair Maria was nearly fifty years of age, she might
yet hope to give an heir to the empire. Constantine listened to
the advice, which was transmitted in the first ship that sailed
from Trebizond; but the factions of the court opposed his
marriage; and it was finally prevented by the pious vow of the
sultana, who ended her days in the monastic profession. Reduced
to the first alternative, the choice of Phranza was decided in
favor of a Georgian princess; and the vanity of her father was
dazzled by the glorious alliance. Instead of demanding, according
to the primitive and national custom, a price for his daughter,
^53 he offered a portion of fifty-six thousand, with an annual
pension of five thousand, ducats; and the services of the
ambassador were repaid by an assurance, that, as his son had been
adopted in baptism by the emperor, the establishment of his
daughter should be the peculiar care of the empress of
Constantinople. On the return of Phranza, the treaty was ratified
by the Greek monarch, who with his own hand impressed three
vermilion crosses on the golden bull, and assured the Georgian
envoy that in the spring his galleys should conduct the bride to
her Imperial palace. But Constantine embraced his faithful
servant, not with the cold approbation of a sovereign, but with
the warm confidence of a friend, who, after a long absence, is
impatient to pour his secrets into the bosom of his friend.
"Since the death of my mother and of Cantacuzene, who alone
advised me without interest or passion, ^54 I am surrounded,"
said the emperor, "by men whom I can neither love nor trust, nor
esteem. You are not a stranger to Lucas Notaras, the great
admiral; obstinately attached to his own sentiments, he declares,
both in private and public, that his sentiments are the absolute
measure of my thoughts and actions. The rest of the courtiers are
swayed by their personal or factious views; and how can I consult
the monks on questions of policy and marriage? I have yet much
employment for your diligence and fidelity. In the spring you
shall engage one of my brothers to solicit the succor of the
Western powers; from the Morea you shall sail to Cyprus on a
particular commission; and from thence proceed to Georgia to
receive and conduct the future empress." -- "Your commands,"
replied Phranza, "are irresistible; but deign, great sir," he
added, with a serious smile, "to consider, that if I am thus
perpetually absent from my family, my wife may be tempted either
to seek another husband, or to throw herself into a monastery."
After laughing at his apprehensions, the emperor more gravely
consoled him by the pleasing assurance that
<strong><em>this</em></strong> should be his last service abroad,
and that he destined for his son a wealthy and noble heiress; for
himself, the important office of great logothete, or principal
minister of state. The marriage was immediately stipulated: but
the office, however incompatible with his own, had been usurped
by the ambition of the admiral. Some delay was requisite to
negotiate a consent and an equivalent; and the nomination of
Phranza was half declared, and half suppressed, lest it might be
displeasing to an insolent and powerful favorite. The winter was
spent in the preparations of his embassy; and Phranza had
resolved, that the youth his son should embrace this opportunity
of foreign travel, and be left, on the appearance of danger, with
his maternal kindred of the Morea. Such were the private and
public designs, which were interrupted by a Turkish war, and
finally buried in the ruins of the empire.</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Suppose him to have been captured in 1394, in
Timour's first war in Georgia, (Sherefeddin, l. iii. c. 50;) he
might follow his Tartar master into Hindostan in 1398, and from
thence sail to the spice islands.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The happy and pious Indians lived a hundred and
fifty years, and enjoyed the most perfect productions of the
vegetable and mineral kingdoms. The animals were on a large
scale: dragons seventy cubits, ants (the <strong><em>formica
Indica</em></strong>) nine inches long, sheep like elephants,
elephants like sheep. Quidlibet audendi, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: He sailed in a country vessel from the spice
islands to one of the ports of the exterior India; invenitque
navem grandem <strong><em>Ibericam</em></strong> qu&acirc; in
<strong><em>Portugalliam</em></strong> est delatus. This passage,
composed in 1477, (Phranza, l. iii. c. 30,) twenty years before
the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, is spurious or wonderful.
But this new geography is sullied by the old and incompatible
error which places the source of the Nile in India.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Cantemir, (p. 83,) who styles her the daughter
of Lazarus Ogli, and the Helen of the Servians, places her
marriage with Amurath in the year 1424. It will not easily be
believed, that in six-and-twenty years' cohabitation, the sultan
corpus ejus non tetigit. After the taking of Constantinople, she
fled to Mahomet II., (Phranza, l. iii. c. 22.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: The classical reader will recollect the offers
of Agamemnon, (Iliad, c. v. 144,) and the general practice of
antiquity.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: Cantacuzene (I am ignorant of his relation to
the emperor of that name) was great domestic, a firm assertor of
the Greek creed, and a brother of the queen of Servia, whom he
visited with the character of ambassador, (Syropulus, p. 37, 38,
45.)]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second,
Extinction Of Eastern Empire.</strong></p>

<p><strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Reign And Character Of Mahomet The Second. -- Siege, Assault,
And Final Conquest, Of Constantinople By The Turks. -- Death Of
Constantine Pal&aelig;ologus. -- Servitude Of The Greeks. --
Extinction Of The Roman Empire In The East. -- Consternation Of
Europe. -- Conquests And Death Of Mahomet The Second.</p>

<p>The siege of Constantinople by the Turks attracts our first
attention to the person and character of the great destroyer.
Mahomet the Second ^1 was the son of the second Amurath; and
though his mother has been decorated with the titles of Christian
and princess, she is more probably confounded with the numerous
concubines who peopled from every climate the harem of the
sultan. His first education and sentiments were those of a devout
Mussulman; and as often as he conversed with an infidel, he
purified his hands and face by the legal rites of ablution. Age
and empire appear to have relaxed this narrow bigotry: his
aspiring genius disdained to acknowledge a power above his own;
and in his looser hours he presumed (it is said) to brand the
prophet of Mecca as a robber and impostor. Yet the sultan
persevered in a decent reverence for the doctrine and discipline
of the Koran: ^2 his private indiscretion must have been sacred
from the vulgar ear; and we should suspect the credulity of
strangers and sectaries, so prone to believe that a mind which is
hardened against truth must be armed with superior contempt for
absurdity and error. Under the tuition of the most skilful
masters, Mahomet advanced with an early and rapid progress in the
paths of knowledge; and besides his native tongue it is affirmed
that he spoke or understood five languages, ^3 the Arabic, the
Persian, the Chald&aelig;an or Hebrew, the Latin, and the Greek.
The Persian might indeed contribute to his amusement, and the
Arabic to his edification; and such studies are familiar to the
Oriental youth. In the intercourse of the Greeks and Turks, a
conqueror might wish to converse with the people over which he
was ambitious to reign: his own praises in Latin poetry ^4 or
prose ^5 might find a passage to the royal ear; but what use or
merit could recommend to the statesman or the scholar the uncouth
dialect of his Hebrew slaves? The history and geography of the
world were familiar to his memory: the lives of the heroes of the
East, perhaps of the West, ^6 excited his emulation: his skill in
astrology is excused by the folly of the times, and supposes some
rudiments of mathematical science; and a profane taste for the
arts is betrayed in his liberal invitation and reward of the
painters of Italy. ^7 But the influence of religion and learning
were employed without effect on his savage and licentious nature.
I will not transcribe, nor do I firmly believe, the stories of
his fourteen pages, whose bellies were ripped open in search of a
stolen melon; or of the beauteous slave, whose head he severed
from her body, to convince the Janizaries that their master was
not the votary of love. ^* His sobriety is attested by the
silence of the Turkish annals, which accuse three, and three
only, of the Ottoman line of the vice of drunkenness. ^8 But it
cannot be denied that his passions were at once furious and
inexorable; that in the palace, as in the field, a torrent of
blood was spilt on the slightest provocation; and that the
noblest of the captive youth were often dishonored by his
unnatural lust. In the Albanian war he studied the lessons, and
soon surpassed the example, of his father; and the conquest of
two empires, twelve kingdoms, and two hundred cities, a vain and
flattering account, is ascribed to his invincible sword. He was
doubtless a soldier, and possibly a general; Constantinople has
sealed his glory; but if we compare the means, the obstacles, and
the achievements, Mahomet the Second must blush to sustain a
parallel with Alexander or Timour. Under his command, the Ottoman
forces were always more numerous than their enemies; yet their
progress was bounded by the Euphrates and the Adriatic; and his
arms were checked by Huniades and Scanderbeg, by the Rhodian
knights and by the Persian king.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: For the character of Mahomet II. it is dangerous
to trust either the Turks or the Christians. The most moderate
picture appears to be drawn by Phranza, (l. i. c. 33,) whose
resentment had cooled in age and solitude; see likewise
Spondanus, (A.D. 1451, No. 11,) and the continuator of Fleury,
(tom. xxii. p. 552,) the <strong><em>Elogia</em></strong> of
Paulus Jovius, (l. iii. p. 164--166,) and the Dictionnaire de
Bayle, (tom. iii. p. 273--279.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: Cantemir, (p. 115.) and the mosques which he
founded, attest his public regard for religion. Mahomet freely
disputed with the Gennadius on the two religions, (Spond. A.D.
1453, No. 22.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Quinque linguas pr&aelig;ter suam noverat,
Gr&aelig;cam, Latinam, Chaldaicam, Persicam. The Latin translator
of Phranza has dropped the Arabic, which the Koran must recommend
to every Mussulman. *</p>

<p>Note: * It appears in the original Greek text, p. 95, edit.
Bonn. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Philelphus, by a Latin ode, requested and
obtained the liberty of his wife's mother and sisters from the
conqueror of Constantinople. It was delivered into the sultan's
hands by the envoys of the duke of Milan. Philelphus himself was
suspected of a design of retiring to Constantinople; yet the
orator often sounded the trumpet of holy war, (see his Life by M.
Lancelot, in the M&eacute;moires de l'Acad&eacute;mie des
Inscriptions, tom. x. p. 718, 724, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Robert Valturio published at Verona, in 1483, his
xii. books de Re Militari, in which he first mentions the use of
bombs. By his patron Sigismund Malatesta, prince of Rimini, it
had been addressed with a Latin epistle to Mahomet II.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: According to Phranza, he assiduously studied the
lives and actions of Alexander, Augustus, Constantine, and
Theodosius. I have read somewhere, that Plutarch's Lives were
translated by his orders into the Turkish language. If the sultan
himself understood Greek, it must have been for the benefit of
his subjects. Yet these lives are a school of freedom as well as
of valor.</p>

<p>Note: Von Hammer disdainfully rejects this fable of Mahomet's
knowledge of languages. Knolles adds, that he delighted in
reading the history of Alexander the Great, and of Julius
C&aelig;sar. The former, no doubt, was the Persian legend, which,
it is remarkable, came back to Europe, and was popular throughout
the middle ages as the "Romaunt of Alexander." The founder of the
Imperial dynasty of Rome, according to M. Von Hammer, is
altogether unknown in the East. Mahomet was a great patron of
Turkish literature: the romantic poems of Persia were translated,
or imitated, under his patronage. Von Hammer vol ii. p. 268. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: The famous Gentile Bellino, whom he had invited
from Venice, was dismissed with a chain and collar of gold, and a
purse of 3000 ducats. With Voltaire I laugh at the foolish story
of a slave purposely beheaded to instruct the painter in the
action of the muscles.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This story, the subject of Johnson's Irene, is
rejected by M. Von Hammer, vol. ii. p. 208. The German
historian's general estimate of Mahomet's character agrees in its
more marked features with Gibbon's. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: These Imperial drunkards were Soliman I., Selim
II., and Amurath IV., (Cantemir, p. 61.) The sophis of Persia can
produce a more regular succession; and in the last age, our
European travellers were the witnesses and companions of their
revels.]</p>

<p>In the reign of Amurath, he twice tasted of royalty, and twice
descended from the throne: his tender age was incapable of
opposing his father's restoration, but never could he forgive the
viziers who had recommended that salutary measure. His nuptials
were celebrated with the daughter of a Turkman emir; and, after a
festival of two months, he departed from Adrianople with his
bride, to reside in the government of Magnesia. Before the end of
six weeks, he was recalled by a sudden message from the divan,
which announced the decease of Amurath, and the mutinous spirit
of the Janizaries. His speed and vigor commanded their obedience:
he passed the Hellespont with a chosen guard: and at the distance
of a mile from Adrianople, the viziers and emirs, the imams and
cadhis, the soldiers and the people, fell prostrate before the
new sultan. They affected to weep, they affected to rejoice: he
ascended the throne at the age of twenty-one years, and removed
the cause of sedition by the death, the inevitable death, of his
infant brothers. ^9 ^* The ambassadors of Europe and Asia soon
appeared to congratulate his accession and solicit his
friendship; and to all he spoke the language of moderation and
peace. The confidence of the Greek emperor was revived by the
solemn oaths and fair assurances with which he sealed the
ratification of the treaty: and a rich domain on the banks of the
Strymon was assigned for the annual payment of three hundred
thousand aspers, the pension of an Ottoman prince, who was
detained at his request in the Byzantine court. Yet the neighbors
of Mahomet might tremble at the severity with which a youthful
monarch reformed the pomp of his father's household: the expenses
of luxury were applied to those of ambition, and a useless train
of seven thousand falconers was either dismissed from his
service, or enlisted in his troops. ^! In the first summer of his
reign, he visited with an army the Asiatic provinces; but after
humbling the pride, Mahomet accepted the submission, of the
Caramanian, that he might not be diverted by the smallest
obstacle from the execution of his great design. ^10</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: Calapin, one of these royal infants, was saved
from his cruel brother, and baptized at Rome under the name of
Callistus Othomannus. The emperor Frederic III. presented him
with an estate in Austria, where he ended his life; and
Cuspinian, who in his youth conversed with the aged prince at
Vienna, applauds his piety and wisdom, (de C&aelig;saribus, p.
672, 673.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Ahmed, the son of a Greek princess, was the
object of his especial jealousy. Von Hammer, p. 501. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: The Janizaries obtained, for the first time, a
gift on the accession of a new sovereign, p. 504. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: See the accession of Mahomet II. in Ducas, (c.
33,) Phranza, (l. i. c. 33, l. iii. c. 2,) Chalcondyles, (l. vii.
p. 199,) and Cantemir, (p. 96.)]</p>

<p>The Mahometan, and more especially the Turkish casuists, have
pronounced that no promise can bind the faithful against the
interest and duty of their religion; and that the sultan may
abrogate his own treaties and those of his predecessors. The
justice and magnanimity of Amurath had scorned this immoral
privilege; but his son, though the proudest of men, could stoop
from ambition to the basest arts of dissimulation and deceit.
Peace was on his lips, while war was in his heart: he incessantly
sighed for the possession of Constantinople; and the Greeks, by
their own indiscretion, afforded the first pretence of the fatal
rupture. ^11 Instead of laboring to be forgotten, their
ambassadors pursued his camp, to demand the payment, and even the
increase, of their annual stipend: the divan was importuned by
their complaints, and the vizier, a secret friend of the
Christians, was constrained to deliver the sense of his brethren.
"Ye foolish and miserable Romans," said Calil, "we know your
devices, and ye are ignorant of your own danger! The scrupulous
Amurath is no more; his throne is occupied by a young conqueror,
whom no laws can bind, and no obstacles can resist: and if you
escape from his hands, give praise to the divine clemency, which
yet delays the chastisement of your sins. Why do ye seek to
affright us by vain and indirect menaces? Release the fugitive
Orchan, crown him sultan of Romania; call the Hungarians from
beyond the Danube; arm against us the nations of the West; and be
assured, that you will only provoke and precipitate your ruin."
But if the fears of the ambassadors were alarmed by the stern
language of the vizier, they were soothed by the courteous
audience and friendly speeches of the Ottoman prince; and Mahomet
assured them that on his return to Adrianople he would redress
the grievances, and consult the true interests, of the Greeks. No
sooner had he repassed the Hellespont, than he issued a mandate
to suppress their pension, and to expel their officers from the
banks of the Strymon: in this measure he betrayed a hostile mind;
and the second order announced, and in some degree commenced, the
siege of Constantinople. In the narrow pass of the Bosphorus, an
Asiatic fortress had formerly been raised by his grandfather; in
the opposite situation, on the European side, he resolved to
erect a more formidable castle; and a thousand masons were
commanded to assemble in the spring on a spot named Asomaton,
about five miles from the Greek metropolis. ^12 Persuasion is the
resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade: the
ambassadors of the emperor attempted, without success, to divert
Mahomet from the execution of his design. They represented, that
his grandfather had solicited the permission of Manuel to build a
castle on his own territories; but that this double
fortification, which would command the strait, could only tend to
violate the alliance of the nations; to intercept the Latins who
traded in the Black Sea, and perhaps to annihilate the
subsistence of the city. "I form the enterprise," replied the
perfidious sultan, "against the city; but the empire of
Constantinople is measured by her walls. Have you forgot the
distress to which my father was reduced when you formed a league
with the Hungarians; when they invaded our country by land, and
the Hellespont was occupied by the French galleys? Amurath was
compelled to force the passage of the Bosphorus; and your
strength was not equal to your malevolence. I was then a child at
Adrianople; the Moslems trembled; and, for a while, the
<strong><em>Gabours</em></strong> ^13 insulted our disgrace. But
when my father had triumphed in the field of Warna, he vowed to
erect a fort on the western shore, and that vow it is my duty to
accomplish. Have ye the right, have ye the power, to control my
actions on my own ground? For that ground is my own: as far as
the shores of the Bosphorus, Asia is inhabited by the Turks, and
Europe is deserted by the Romans. Return, and inform your king,
that the present Ottoman is far different from his predecessors;
that <strong><em>his</em></strong> resolutions surpass
<strong><em>their</em></strong> wishes; and that
<strong><em>he</em></strong> performs more
<strong><em>than</em></strong> they could resolve. Return in
safety -- but the next who delivers a similar message may expect
to be flayed alive." After this declaration, Constantine, the
first of the Greeks in spirit as in rank, ^14 had determined to
unsheathe the sword, and to resist the approach and establishment
of the Turks on the Bosphorus. He was disarmed by the advice of
his civil and ecclesiastical ministers, who recommended a system
less generous, and even less prudent, than his own, to approve
their patience and long-suffering, to brand the Ottoman with the
name and guilt of an aggressor, and to depend on chance and time
for their own safety, and the destruction of a fort which could
not long be maintained in the neighborhood of a great and
populous city. Amidst hope and fear, the fears of the wise, and
the hopes of the credulous, the winter rolled away; the proper
business of each man, and each hour, was postponed; and the
Greeks shut their eyes against the impending danger, till the
arrival of the spring and the sultan decide the assurance of
their ruin.</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Before I enter on the siege of Constantinople, I
shall observe, that except the short hints of Cantemir and
Leunclavius, I have not been able to obtain any Turkish account
of this conquest; such an account as we possess of the siege of
Rhodes by Soliman II., (M&eacute;moires de l'Acad&eacute;mie des
Inscriptions, tom. xxvi. p. 723--769.) I must therefore depend on
the Greeks, whose prejudices, in some degree, are subdued by
their distress. Our standard texts ar those of Ducas, (c.
34--42,) Phranza, (l. iii. c. 7--20,) Chalcondyles, (l. viii. p.
201--214,) and Leonardus Chiensis, (Historia C. P. a Turco
expugnat&aelig;. Norimbergh&aelig;, 1544, in 4to., 20 leaves.)
The last of these narratives is the earliest in date, since it
was composed in the Isle of Chios, the 16th of August, 1453, only
seventy-nine days after the loss of the city, and in the first
confusion of ideas and passions. Some hints may be added from an
epistle of Cardinal Isidore (in Farragine Rerum Turcicarum, ad
calcem Chalcondyl. Clauseri, Basil, 1556) to Pope Nicholas V.,
and a tract of Theodosius Zygomala, which he addressed in the
year 1581 to Martin Crucius, (Turco-Gr&aelig;cia, l. i. p.
74--98, Basil, 1584.) The various facts and materials are
briefly, though critically, reviewed by Spondanus, (A.D. 1453,
No. 1--27.) The hearsay relations of Monstrelet and the distant
Latins I shall take leave to disregard. *</p>

<p>Note: * M. Von Hammer has added little new information on the
siege of Constantinople, and, by his general agreement, has borne
an honorable testimony to the truth, and by his close imitation
to the graphic spirit and boldness, of Gibbon. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: The situation of the fortress, and the
topography of the Bosphorus, are best learned from Peter Gyllius,
(de Bosphoro Thracio, l. ii. c. 13,) Leunclavius, (Pandect. p.
445,) and Tournefort, (Voyage dans le Levant, tom. ii. lettre xv.
p. 443, 444;) but I must regret the map or plan which Tournefort
sent to the French minister of the marine. The reader may turn
back to chap. xvii. of this History.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The opprobrious name which the Turks bestow on
the infidels, is expressed Kabour by Ducas, and
<strong><em>Giaour</em></strong> by Leunclavius and the moderns.
The former term is derived by Ducange (Gloss. Gr&aelig;c tom. i.
p. 530) from Kabouron, in vulgar Greek, a tortoise, as denoting a
retrograde motion from the faith. But alas!
<strong><em>Gabour</em></strong> is no more than
<strong><em>Gheber</em></strong>, which was transferred from the
Persian to the Turkish language, from the worshippers of fire to
those of the crucifix, (D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p.
375.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: Phranza does justice to his master's sense and
courage. Calliditatem hominis non ignorans Imperator prior arma
movere constituit, and stigmatizes the folly of the cum sacri tum
profani proceres, which he had heard, amentes spe van&acirc;
pasci. Ducas was not a privy-counsellor.]</p>

<p>Of a master who never forgives, the orders are seldom
disobeyed. On the twenty-sixth of March, the appointed spot of
Asomaton was covered with an active swarm of Turkish artificers;
and the materials by sea and land were diligently transported
from Europe and Asia. ^15 The lime had been burnt in Cataphrygia;
the timber was cut down in the woods of Heraclea and Nicomedia;
and the stones were dug from the Anatolian quarries. Each of the
thousand masons was assisted by two workmen; and a measure of two
cubits was marked for their daily task. The fortress ^16 was
built in a triangular form; each angle was flanked by a strong
and massy tower; one on the declivity of the hill, two along the
sea-shore: a thickness of twenty-two feet was assigned for the
walls, thirty for the towers; and the whole building was covered
with a solid platform of lead. Mahomet himself pressed and
directed the work with indefatigable ardor: his three viziers
claimed the honor of finishing their respective towers; the zeal
of the cadhis emulated that of the Janizaries; the meanest labor
was ennobled by the service of God and the sultan; and the
diligence of the multitude was quickened by the eye of a despot,
whose smile was the hope of fortune, and whose frown was the
messenger of death. The Greek emperor beheld with terror the
irresistible progress of the work; and vainly strove, by flattery
and gifts, to assuage an implacable foe, who sought, and secretly
fomented, the slightest occasion of a quarrel. Such occasions
must soon and inevitably be found. The ruins of stately churches,
and even the marble columns which had been consecrated to Saint
Michael the archangel, were employed without scruple by the
profane and rapacious Moslems; and some Christians, who presumed
to oppose the removal, received from their hands the crown of
martyrdom. Constantine had solicited a Turkish guard to protect
the fields and harvests of his subjects: the guard was fixed; but
their first order was to allow free pasture to the mules and
horses of the camp, and to defend their brethren if they should
be molested by the natives. The retinue of an Ottoman chief had
left their horses to pass the night among the ripe corn; the
damage was felt; the insult was resented; and several of both
nations were slain in a tumultuous conflict. Mahomet listened
with joy to the complaint; and a detachment was commanded to
exterminate the guilty village: the guilty had fled; but forty
innocent and unsuspecting reapers were massacred by the soldiers.
Till this provocation, Constantinople had been opened to the
visits of commerce and curiosity: on the first alarm, the gates
were shut; but the emperor, still anxious for peace, released on
the third day his Turkish captives; ^17 and expressed, in a last
message, the firm resignation of a Christian and a soldier.
"Since neither oaths, nor treaty, nor submission, can secure
peace, pursue," said he to Mahomet, "your impious warfare. My
trust is in God alone; if it should please him to mollify your
heart, I shall rejoice in the happy change; if he delivers the
city into your hands, I submit without a murmur to his holy will.
But until the Judge of the earth shall pronounce between us, it
is my duty to live and die in the defence of my people." The
sultan's answer was hostile and decisive: his fortifications were
completed; and before his departure for Adrianople, he stationed
a vigilant Aga and four hundred Janizaries, to levy a tribute on
the ships of every nation that should pass within the reach of
their cannon. A Venetian vessel, refusing obedience to the new
lords of the Bosphorus, was sunk with a single bullet. ^* The
master and thirty sailors escaped in the boat; but they were
dragged in chains to the <strong><em>Porte</em></strong>: the
chief was impaled; his companions were beheaded; and the
historian Ducas ^18 beheld, at Demotica, their bodies exposed to
the wild beasts. The siege of Constantinople was deferred till
the ensuing spring; but an Ottoman army marched into the Morea to
divert the force of the brothers of Constantine. At this
&aelig;ra of calamity, one of these princes, the despot Thomas,
was blessed or afflicted with the birth of a son; "the last
heir," says the plaintive Phranza, "of the last spark of the
Roman empire." ^19</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Instead of this clear and consistent account,
the Turkish Annals (Cantemir, p. 97) revived the foolish tale of
the ox's hide, and Dido's stratagem in the foundation of
Carthage. These annals (unless we are swayed by an anti-Christian
prejudice) are far less valuable than the Greek historians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: In the dimensions of this fortress, the old
castle of Europe, Phranza does not exactly agree with
Chalcondyles, whose description has been verified on the spot by
his editor Leunclavius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: Among these were some pages of Mahomet, so
conscious of his inexorable rigor, that they begged to lose their
heads in the city unless they could return before sunset.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This was from a model cannon cast by Urban the
Hungarian. See p. 291. Von Hammer. p. 510. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Ducas, c. 35. Phranza, (l. iii. c. 3,) who had
sailed in his vessel, commemorates the Venetian pilot as a
martyr.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: Auctum est Pal&aelig;ologorum genus, et Imperii
successor, parv&aelig;que Romanorum scintill&aelig; h&aelig;res
natus, Andreas, &amp;c., (Phranza, l. iii. c. 7.) The strong
expression was inspired by his feelings.]</p>

<p>The Greeks and the Turks passed an anxious and sleepless
winter: the former were kept awake by their fears, the latter by
their hopes; both by the preparations of defence and attack; and
the two emperors, who had the most to lose or to gain, were the
most deeply affected by the national sentiment. In Mahomet, that
sentiment was inflamed by the ardor of his youth and temper: he
amused his leisure with building at Adrianople ^20 the lofty
palace of Jehan Numa, (the watchtower of the world;) but his
serious thoughts were irrevocably bent on the conquest of the
city of C&aelig;sar. At the dead of night, about the second
watch, he started from his bed, and commanded the instant
attendance of his prime vizier. The message, the hour, the
prince, and his own situation, alarmed the guilty conscience of
Calil Basha; who had possessed the confidence, and advised the
restoration, of Amurath. On the accession of the son, the vizier
was confirmed in his office and the appearances of favor; but the
veteran statesman was not insensible that he trod on a thin and
slippery ice, which might break under his footsteps, and plunge
him in the abyss. His friendship for the Christians, which might
be innocent under the late reign, had stigmatized him with the
name of Gabour Ortachi, or foster-brother of the infidels; ^21
and his avarice entertained a venal and treasonable
correspondence, which was detected and punished after the
conclusion of the war. On receiving the royal mandate, he
embraced, perhaps for the last time, his wife and children;
filled a cup with pieces of gold, hastened to the palace, adored
the sultan, and offered, according to the Oriental custom, the
slight tribute of his duty and gratitude. ^22 "It is not my
wish," said Mahomet, "to resume my gifts, but rather to heap and
multiply them on thy head. In my turn, I ask a present far more
valuable and important; -- Constantinople." As soon as the vizier
had recovered from his surprise, "The same God," said he, "who
has already given thee so large a portion of the Roman empire,
will not deny the remnant, and the capital. His providence, and
thy power, assure thy success; and myself, with the rest of thy
faithful slaves, will sacrifice our lives and fortunes." --
"Lala," ^23 (or preceptor,) continued the sultan, "do you see
this pillow? All the night, in my agitation, I have pulled it on
one side and the other; I have risen from my bed, again have I
lain down; yet sleep has not visited these weary eyes. Beware of
the gold and silver of the Romans: in arms we are superior; and
with the aid of God, and the prayers of the prophet, we shall
speedily become masters of Constantinople." To sound the
disposition of his soldiers, he often wandered through the
streets alone, and in disguise; and it was fatal to discover the
sultan, when he wished to escape from the vulgar eye. His hours
were spent in delineating the plan of the hostile city; in
debating with his generals and engineers, on what spot he should
erect his batteries; on which side he should assault the walls;
where he should spring his mines; to what place he should apply
his scaling-ladders: and the exercises of the day repeated and
proved the lucubrations of the night.</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: Cantemir, p. 97, 98. The sultan was either
doubtful of his conquest, or ignorant of the superior merits of
Constantinople. A city or a kingdom may sometimes be ruined by
the Imperial fortune of their sovereign.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: SuntrojoV, by the president Cousin, is
translated <strong><em>p&egrave;re</em></strong> nourricier, most
correctly indeed from the Latin version; but in his haste he has
overlooked the note by which Ishmael Boillaud (ad Ducam, c. 35)
acknowledges and rectifies his own error.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: The Oriental custom of never appearing without
gifts before a sovereign or a superior is of high antiquity, and
seems analogous with the idea of sacrifice, still more ancient
and universal. See the examples of such Persian gifts,
&AElig;lian, Hist. Var. l. i. c. 31, 32, 33.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: The <strong><em>Lala</em></strong> of the Turks
(Cantemir, p. 34) and the <strong><em>Tata</em></strong> of the
Greeks (Ducas, c. 35) are derived from the natural language of
children; and it may be observed, that all such primitive words
which denote their parents, are the simple repetition of one
syllable, composed of a labial or a dental consonant and an open
vowel, (Des Brosses, M&eacute;chanisme des Langues, tom. i. p.
231--247.)]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second,
Extinction Of Eastern Empire. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>Among the implements of destruction, he studied with peculiar
care the recent and tremendous discovery of the Latins; and his
artillery surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A
founder of cannon, a Dane ^* or Hungarian, who had been almost
starved in the Greek service, deserted to the Moslems, and was
liberally entertained by the Turkish sultan. Mahomet was
satisfied with the answer to his first question, which he eagerly
pressed on the artist. "Am I able to cast a cannon capable of
throwing a ball or stone of sufficient size to batter the walls
of Constantinople? I am not ignorant of their strength; but were
they more solid than those of Babylon, I could oppose an engine
of superior power: the position and management of that engine
must be left to your engineers." On this assurance, a foundry was
established at Adrianople: the metal was prepared; and at the end
of three months, Urban produced a piece of brass ordnance of
stupendous, and almost incredible magnitude; a measure of twelve
palms is assigned to the bore; and the stone bullet weighed above
six hundred pounds. ^24 ^* A vacant place before the new palace
was chosen for the first experiment; but to prevent the sudden
and mischievous effects of astonishment and fear, a proclamation
was issued, that the cannon would be discharged the ensuing day.
The explosion was felt or heard in a circuit of a hundred
furlongs: the ball, by the force of gunpowder, was driven above a
mile; and on the spot where it fell, it buried itself a fathom
deep in the ground. For the conveyance of this destructive
engine, a frame or carriage of thirty wagons was linked together
and drawn along by a team of sixty oxen: two hundred men on both
sides were stationed, to poise and support the rolling weight;
two hundred and fifty workmen marched before to smooth the way
and repair the bridges; and near two months were employed in a
laborious journey of one hundred and fifty miles. A lively
philosopher ^25 derides on this occasion the credulity of the
Greeks, and observes, with much reason, that we should always
distrust the exaggerations of a vanquished people. He calculates,
that a ball, even o two hundred pounds, would require a charge of
one hundred and fifty pounds of powder; and that the stroke would
be feeble and impotent, since not a fifteenth part of the mass
could be inflamed at the same moment. A stranger as I am to the
art of destruction, I can discern that the modern improvements of
artillery prefer the number of pieces to the weight of metal; the
quickness of the fire to the sound, or even the consequence, of a
single explosion. Yet I dare not reject the positive and
unanimous evidence of contemporary writers; nor can it seem
improbable, that the first artists, in their rude and ambitious
efforts, should have transgressed the standard of moderation. A
Turkish cannon, more enormous than that of Mahomet, still guards
the entrance of the Dardanelles; and if the use be inconvenient,
it has been found on a late trial that the effect was far from
contemptible. A stone bullet of <strong><em>eleven</em></strong>
hundred pounds' weight was once discharged with three hundred and
thirty pounds of powder: at the distance of six hundred yards it
shivered into three rocky fragments; traversed the strait; and
leaving the waters in a foam, again rose and bounded against the
opposite hill. ^26</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Gibbon has written Dane by mistake for Dace, or
Dacian. Lax ti kinoV?. Chalcondyles, Von Hammer, p. 510. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: The Attic talent weighed about sixty min&aelig;,
or avoirdupois pounds (see Hooper on Ancient Weights, Measures,
&amp;c.;) but among the modern Greeks, that classic appellation
was extended to a weight of one hundred, or one hundred and
twenty-five pounds, (Ducange, talanton.) Leonardus Chiensis
measured the ball or stone of the
<strong><em>second</em></strong> cannon Lapidem, qui palmis
undecim ex meis ambibat in gyro.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: 1200, according to Leonardus Chiensis. Von Hammer
states that he had himself seen the great cannon of the
Dardanelles, in which a tailor who had run away from his
creditors, had concealed himself several days Von Hammer had
measured balls twelve spans round. Note. p. 666. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: See Voltaire, (Hist. G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, c.
xci. p. 294, 295.) He was ambitious of universal monarchy; and
the poet frequently aspires to the name and style of an
astronomer, a chemist, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: The Baron de Tott, (tom. iii. p. 85--89,) who
fortified the Dardanelles against the Russians, describes in a
lively, and even comic, strain his own prowess, and the
consternation of the Turks. But that adventurous traveller does
not possess the art of gaining our confidence.]</p>

<p>While Mahomet threatened the capital of the East, the Greek
emperor implored with fervent prayers the assistance of earth and
heaven. But the invisible powers were deaf to his supplications;
and Christendom beheld with indifference the fall of
Constantinople, while she derived at least some promise of supply
from the jealous and temporal policy of the sultan of Egypt. Some
states were too weak, and others too remote; by some the danger
was considered as imaginary by others as inevitable: the Western
princes were involved in their endless and domestic quarrels; and
the Roman pontiff was exasperated by the falsehood or obstinacy
of the Greeks. Instead of employing in their favor the arms and
treasures of Italy, Nicholas the Fifth had foretold their
approaching ruin; and his honor was engaged in the accomplishment
of his prophecy. ^* Perhaps he was softened by the last extremity
o their distress; but his compassion was tardy; his efforts were
faint and unavailing; and Constantinople had fallen, before the
squadrons of Genoa and Venice could sail from their harbors. ^27
Even the princes of the Morea and of the Greek islands affected a
cold neutrality: the Genoese colony of Galata negotiated a
private treaty; and the sultan indulged them in the delusive
hope, that by his clemency they might survive the ruin of the
empire. A plebeian crowd, and some Byzantine nobles basely
withdrew from the danger of their country; and the avarice of the
rich denied the emperor, and reserved for the Turks, the secret
treasures which might have raised in their defence whole armies
of mercenaries. ^28 The indigent and solitary prince prepared,
however, to sustain his formidable adversary; but if his courage
were equal to the peril, his strength was inadequate to the
contest. In the beginning of the spring, the Turkish vanguard
swept the towns and villages as far as the gates of
Constantinople: submission was spared and protected; whatever
presumed to resist was exterminated with fire and sword. The
Greek places on the Black Sea, Mesembria, Acheloum, and Bizon,
surrendered on the first summons; Selybria alone deserved the
honors of a siege or blockade; and the bold inhabitants, while
they were invested by land, launched their boats, pillaged the
opposite coast of Cyzicus, and sold their captives in the public
market. But on the approach of Mahomet himself all was silent and
prostrate: he first halted at the distance of five miles; and
from thence advancing in battle array, planted before the gates
of St. Romanus the Imperial standard; and on the sixth day of
April formed the memorable siege of Constantinople.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: See the curious Christian and Mahometan
predictions of the fall of Constantinople, Von Hammer, p. 518. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Non audivit, indignum ducens, says the honest
Antoninus; but as the Roman court was afterwards grieved and
ashamed, we find the more courtly expression of Platina, in animo
fuisse pontifici juvare Gr&aelig;cos, and the positive assertion
of &AElig;neas Sylvius, structam classem &amp;c. (Spond. A.D.
1453, No. 3.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Antonin. in Proem. -- Epist. Cardinal. Isidor.
apud Spondanum and Dr. Johnson, in the tragedy of Irene, has
happily seized this characteristic circumstance: --</p>

<p>The groaning Greeks dig up the golden caverns.</p>

<p>The accumulated wealth of hoarding ages;</p>

<p>That wealth which, granted to their weeping prince,</p>

<p>Had ranged embattled nations at their gates.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>The troops of Asia and Europe extended on the right and left
from the Propontis to the harbor; the Janizaries in the front
were stationed before the sultan's tent; the Ottoman line was
covered by a deep intrenchment; and a subordinate army enclosed
the suburb of Galata, and watched the doubtful faith of the
Genoese. The inquisitive Philelphus, who resided in Greece about
thirty years before the siege, is confident, that all the Turkish
forces of any name or value could not exceed the number of sixty
thousand horse and twenty thousand foot; and he upbraids the
pusillanimity of the nations, who had tamely yielded to a handful
of Barbarians. Such indeed might be the regular establishment of
the <strong><em>Capiculi</em></strong>, ^29 the troops of the
Porte who marched with the prince, and were paid from his royal
treasury. But the bashaws, in their respective governments,
maintained or levied a provincial militia; many lands were held
by a military tenure; many volunteers were attracted by the hope
of spoil and the sound of the holy trumpet invited a swarm of
hungry and fearless fanatics, who might contribute at least to
multiply the terrors, and in a first attack to blunt the swords,
of the Christians. The whole mass of the Turkish powers is
magnified by Ducas, Chalcondyles, and Leonard of Chios, to the
amount of three or four hundred thousand men; but Phranza was a
less remote and more accurate judge; and his precise definition
of two hundred and fifty-eight thousand does not exceed the
measure of experience and probability. ^30 The navy of the
besiegers was less formidable: the Propontis was overspread with
three hundred and twenty sail; but of these no more than eighteen
could be rated as galleys of war; and the far greater part must
be degraded to the condition of store-ships and transports, which
poured into the camp fresh supplies of men, ammunition, and
provisions. In her last decay, Constantinople was still peopled
with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants; but these numbers
are found in the accounts, not of war, but of captivity; and they
mostly consisted of mechanics, of priests, of women, and of men
devoid of that spirit which even women have sometimes exerted for
the common safety. I can suppose, I could almost excuse, the
reluctance of subjects to serve on a distant frontier, at the
will of a tyrant; but the man who dares not expose his life in
the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society
the first and most active energies of nature. By the emperor's
command, a particular inquiry had been made through the streets
and houses, how many of the citizens, or even of the monks, were
able and willing to bear arms for their country. The lists were
intrusted to Phranza; ^31 and, after a diligent addition, he
informed his master, with grief and surprise, that the national
defence was reduced to four thousand nine hundred and seventy
<strong><em>Romans</em></strong>. Between Constantine and his
faithful minister this comfortless secret was preserved; and a
sufficient proportion of shields, cross-bows, and muskets, were
distributed from the arsenal to the city bands. They derived some
accession from a body of two thousand strangers, under the
command of John Justiniani, a noble Genoese; a liberal donative
was advanced to these auxiliaries; and a princely recompense, the
Isle of Lemnos, was promised to the valor and victory of their
chief. A strong chain was drawn across the mouth of the harbor:
it was supported by some Greek and Italian vessels of war and
merchandise; and the ships of every Christian nation, that
successively arrived from Candia and the Black Sea, were detained
for the public service. Against the powers of the Ottoman empire,
a city of the extent of thirteen, perhaps of sixteen, miles was
defended by a scanty garrison of seven or eight thousand
soldiers. Europe and Asia were open to the besiegers; but the
strength and provisions of the Greeks must sustain a daily
decrease; nor could they indulge the expectation of any foreign
succor or supply.</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: The palatine troops are styled
<strong><em>Capiculi</em></strong>, the provincials,
<strong><em>Seratculi</em></strong>; and most of the names and
institutions of the Turkish militia existed before the
<strong><em>Canon Nameh</em></strong> of Soliman II, from which,
and his own experience, Count Marsigli has composed his military
state of the Ottoman empire.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: The observation of Philelphus is approved by
Cuspinian in the year 1508, (de C&aelig;saribus, in Epilog. de
Militi&acirc; Turcic&acirc;, p. 697.) Marsigli proves, that the
effective armies of the Turks are much less numerous than they
appear. In the army that besieged Constantinople Leonardus
Chiensis reckons no more than 15,000 Janizaries.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: Ego, eidem (Imp.) tabellas extribui non absque
dolore et mstitia, mansitque apud nos duos aliis occultus
numerus, (Phranza, l. iii. c. 8.) With some indulgence for
national prejudices, we cannot desire a more authentic witness,
not only of public facts, but of private counsels.]</p>

<p>The primitive Romans would have drawn their swords in the
resolution of death or conquest. The primitive Christians might
have embraced each other, and awaited in patience and charity the
stroke of martyrdom. But the Greeks of Constantinople were
animated only by the spirit of religion, and that spirit was
productive only of animosity and discord. Before his death, the
emperor John Pal&aelig;ologus had renounced the unpopular measure
of a union with the Latins; nor was the idea revived, till the
distress of his brother Constantine imposed a last trial of
flattery and dissimulation. ^32 With the demand of temporal aid,
his ambassadors were instructed to mingle the assurance of
spiritual obedience: his neglect of the church was excused by the
urgent cares of the state; and his orthodox wishes solicited the
presence of a Roman legate. The Vatican had been too often
deluded; yet the signs of repentance could not decently be
overlooked; a legate was more easily granted than an army; and
about six months before the final destruction, the cardinal
Isidore of Russia appeared in that character with a retinue of
priests and soldiers. The emperor saluted him as a friend and
father; respectfully listened to his public and private sermons;
and with the most obsequious of the clergy and laymen subscribed
the act of union, as it had been ratified in the council of
Florence. On the twelfth of December, the two nations, in the
church of St. Sophia, joined in the communion of sacrifice and
prayer; and the names of the two pontiffs were solemnly
commemorated; the names of Nicholas the Fifth, the vicar of
Christ, and of the patriarch Gregory, who had been driven into
exile by a rebellious people.</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: In Spondanus, the narrative of the union is not
only partial, but imperfect. The bishop of Pamiers died in 1642,
and the history of Ducas, which represents these scenes (c. 36,
37) with such truth and spirit, was not printed till the year
1649.]</p>

<p>But the dress and language of the Latin priest who officiated
at the altar were an object of scandal; and it was observed with
horror, that he consecrated a cake or wafer of
<strong><em>unleavened</em></strong> bread, and poured cold water
into the cup of the sacrament. A national historian acknowledges
with a blush, that none of his countrymen, not the emperor
himself, were sincere in this occasional conformity. ^33 Their
hasty and unconditional submission was palliated by a promise of
future revisal; but the best, or the worst, of their excuses was
the confession of their own perjury. When they were pressed by
the reproaches of their honest brethren, "Have patience," they
whispered, "have patience till God shall have delivered the city
from the great dragon who seeks to devour us. You shall then
perceive whether we are truly reconciled with the Azymites." But
patience is not the attribute of zeal; nor can the arts of a
court be adapted to the freedom and violence of popular
enthusiasm. From the dome of St. Sophia the inhabitants of either
sex, and of every degree, rushed in crowds to the cell of the
monk Gennadius, ^34 to consult the oracle of the church. The holy
man was invisible; entranced, as it should seem, in deep
meditation, or divine rapture: but he had exposed on the door of
his cell a speaking tablet; and they successively withdrew, after
reading those tremendous words: "O miserable Romans, why will ye
abandon the truth? and why, instead of confiding in God, will ye
put your trust in the Italians? In losing your faith you will
lose your city. Have mercy on me, O Lord! I protest in thy
presence that I am innocent of the crime. O miserable Romans,
consider, pause, and repent. At the same moment that you renounce
the religion of your fathers, by embracing impiety, you submit to
a foreign servitude." According to the advice of Gennadius, the
religious virgins, as pure as angels, and as proud as
d&aelig;mons, rejected the act of union, and abjured all
communion with the present and future associates of the Latins;
and their example was applauded and imitated by the greatest part
of the clergy and people. From the monastery, the devout Greeks
dispersed themselves in the taverns; drank confusion to the
slaves of the pope; emptied their glasses in honor of the image
of the holy Virgin; and besought her to defend against Mahomet
the city which she had formerly saved from Chosroes and the
Chagan. In the double intoxication of zeal and wine, they
valiantly exclaimed, "What occasion have we for succor, or union,
or Latins? Far from us be the worship of the Azymites!" During
the winter that preceded the Turkish conquest, the nation was
distracted by this epidemical frenzy; and the season of Lent, the
approach of Easter, instead of breathing charity and love, served
only to fortify the obstinacy and influence of the zealots. The
confessors scrutinized and alarmed the conscience of their
votaries, and a rigorous penance was imposed on those who had
received the communion from a priest who had given an express or
tacit consent to the union. His service at the altar propagated
the infection to the mute and simple spectators of the ceremony:
they forfeited, by the impure spectacle, the virtue of the
sacerdotal character; nor was it lawful, even in danger of sudden
death, to invoke the assistance of their prayers or absolution.
No sooner had the church of St. Sophia been polluted by the Latin
sacrifice, than it was deserted as a Jewish synagogue, or a
heathen temple, by the clergy and people; and a vast and gloomy
silence prevailed in that venerable dome, which had so often
smoked with a cloud of incense, blazed with innumerable lights,
and resounded with the voice of prayer and thanksgiving. The
Latins were the most odious of heretics and infidels; and the
first minister of the empire, the great duke, was heard to
declare, that he had rather behold in Constantinople the turban
of Mahomet, than the pope's tiara or a cardinal's hat. ^35 A
sentiment so unworthy of Christians and patriots was familiar and
fatal to the Greeks: the emperor was deprived of the affection
and support of his subjects; and their native cowardice was
sanctified by resignation to the divine decree, or the visionary
hope of a miraculous deliverance.</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: Phranza, one of the conforming Greeks,
acknowledges that the measure was adopted only propter spem
auxilii; he affirms with pleasure, that those who refused to
perform their devotions in St. Sophia, extra culpam et in pace
essent, (l. iii. c. 20.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: His primitive and secular name was George
Scholarius, which he changed for that of Gennadius, either when
he became a monk or a patriarch. His defence, at Florence, of the
same union, which he so furiously attacked at Constantinople, has
tempted Leo Allatius (Diatrib. de Georgiis, in Fabric. Bibliot.
Gr&aelig;c. tom. x. p. 760--786) to divide him into two men; but
Renaudot (p. 343--383) has restored the identity of his person
and the duplicity of his character.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: Fakiolion, kaluptra, may be fairly translated a
cardinal's hat. The difference of the Greek and Latin habits
imbittered the schism.]</p>

<p>Of the triangle which composes the figure of Constantinople,
the two sides along the sea were made inaccessible to an enemy;
the Propontis by nature, and the harbor by art. Between the two
waters, the basis of the triangle, the land side was protected by
a double wall, and a deep ditch of the depth of one hundred feet.
Against this line of fortification, which Phranza, an
eye-witness, prolongs to the measure of six miles, ^36 the
Ottomans directed their principal attack; and the emperor, after
distributing the service and command of the most perilous
stations, undertook the defence of the external wall. In the
first days of the siege the Greek soldiers descended into the
ditch, or sallied into the field; but they soon discovered, that,
in the proportion of their numbers, one Christian was of more
value than twenty Turks: and, after these bold preludes, they
were prudently content to maintain the rampart with their missile
weapons. Nor should this prudence be accused of pusillanimity.
The nation was indeed pusillanimous and base; but the last
Constantine deserves the name of a hero: his noble band of
volunteers was inspired with Roman virtue; and the foreign
auxiliaries supported the honor of the Western chivalry. The
incessant volleys of lances and arrows were accompanied with the
smoke, the sound, and the fire, of their musketry and cannon.
Their small arms discharged at the same time either five, or even
ten, balls of lead, of the size of a walnut; and, according to
the closeness of the ranks and the force of the powder, several
breastplates and bodies were transpierced by the same shot. But
the Turkish approaches were soon sunk in trenches, or covered
with ruins. Each day added to the science of the Christians; but
their inadequate stock of gunpowder was wasted in the operations
of each day. Their ordnance was not powerful, either in size or
number; and if they possessed some heavy cannon, they feared to
plant them on the walls, lest the aged structure should be shaken
and overthrown by the explosion. ^37 The same destructive secret
had been revealed to the Moslems; by whom it was employed with
the superior energy of zeal, riches, and despotism. The great
cannon of Mahomet has been separately noticed; an important and
visible object in the history of the times: but that enormous
engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude: ^38
the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed against the
walls; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the most
accessible places; and of one of these it is ambiguously
expressed, that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns,
or that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets. Yet in the
power and activity of the sultan, we may discern the infancy of
the new science. Under a master who counted the moments, the
great cannon could be loaded and fired no more than seven times
in one day. ^39 The heated metal unfortunately burst; several
workmen were destroyed; and the skill of an artist ^* was admired
who bethought himself of preventing the danger and the accident,
by pouring oil, after each explosion, into the mouth of the
cannon.</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: We are obliged to reduce the Greek miles to the
smallest measure which is preserved in the wersts of Russia, of
547 French <strong><em>toises</em></strong>, and of 104 2/5 to a
degree. The six miles of Phranza do not exceed four English
miles, (D'Anville, Mesures Itineraires, p. 61, 123, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: At indies doctiores nostri facti paravere contra
hostes machinamenta, qu&aelig; tamen avare dabantur. Pulvis erat
nitri modica exigua; tela modica; bombard&aelig;, si aderant
incommoditate loci primum hostes offendere, maceriebus alveisque
tectos, non poterant. Nam si qu&aelig; magn&aelig; erant, ne
murus concuteretur noster, quiescebant. This passage of Leonardus
Chiensis is curious and important.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: According to Chalcondyles and Phranza, the great
cannon burst; an incident which, according to Ducas, was
prevented by the artist's skill. It is evident that they do not
speak of the same gun. *</p>

<p>Note: * They speak, one of a Byzantine, one of a Turkish, gun.
Von Hammer note, p. 669.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: Near a hundred years after the siege of
Constantinople, the French and English fleets in the Channel were
proud of firing 300 shot in an engagement of two hours,
(M&eacute;moires de Martin du Bellay, l. x., in the Collection
G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, tom. xxi. p. 239.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The founder of the gun. Von Hammer, p. 526.]</p>

<p>The first random shots were productive of more sound than
effect; and it was by the advice of a Christian, that the
engineers were taught to level their aim against the two opposite
sides of the salient angles of a bastion. However imperfect, the
weight and repetition of the fire made some impression on the
walls; and the Turks, pushing their approaches to the edge of the
ditch, attempted to fill the enormous chasm, and to build a road
to the assault. ^40 Innumerable fascines, and hogsheads, and
trunks of trees, were heaped on each other; and such was the
impetuosity of the throng, that the foremost and the weakest were
pushed headlong down the precipice, and instantly buried under
the accumulated mass. To fill the ditch was the toil of the
besiegers; to clear away the rubbish was the safety of the
besieged; and after a long and bloody conflict, the web that had
been woven in the day was still unravelled in the night. The next
resource of Mahomet was the practice of mines; but the soil was
rocky; in every attempt he was stopped and undermined by the
Christian engineers; nor had the art been yet invented of
replenishing those subterraneous passages with gunpowder, and
blowing whole towers and cities into the air. ^41 A circumstance
that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of
the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled
with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts; the
bullet and the battering-ram ^* were directed against the same
walls: nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of
the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the
largest size was advanced on rollers this portable magazine of
ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of
bulls' hides: incessant volleys were securely discharged from the
loop-holes; in the front, three doors were contrived for the
alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and workmen. They
ascended by a staircase to the upper platform, and, as high as
the level of that platform, a scaling-ladder could be raised by
pulleys to form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart.
By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were
pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of St. Romanus was at length
overturned: after a severe struggle, the Turks were repulsed from
the breach, and interrupted by darkness; but they trusted that
with the return of light they should renew the attack with fresh
vigor and decisive success. Of this pause of action, this
interval of hope, each moment was improved, by the activity of
the emperor and Justiniani, who passed the night on the spot, and
urged the labors which involved the safety of the church and
city. At the dawn of day, the impatient sultan perceived, with
astonishment and grief, that his wooden turret had been reduced
to ashes: the ditch was cleared and restored; and the tower of
St. Romanus was again strong and entire. He deplored the failure
of his design; and uttered a profane exclamation, that the word
of the thirty-seven thousand prophets should not have compelled
him to believe that such a work, in so short a time, could have
been accomplished by the infidels.</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: I have selected some curious facts, without
striving to emulate the bloody and obstinate eloquence of the
abb&eacute; de Vertot, in his prolix descriptions of the sieges
of Rhodes, Malta, &amp;c. But that agreeable historian had a turn
for romance; and as he wrote to please the order he had adopted
the same spirit of enthusiasm and chivalry.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: The first theory of mines with gunpowder appears
in 1480 in a MS. of George of Sienna, (Tiraboschi, tom. vi. P. i.
p. 324.) They were first practised by Sarzanella, in 1487; but
the honor and improvement in 1503 is ascribed to Peter of
Navarre, who used them with success in the wars of Italy, (Hist.
de la Ligue de Cambray, tom. ii. p. 93--97.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The battering-ram according to Von Hammer, (p.
670,) was not used. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second,
Extinction Of Eastern Empire. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>The generosity of the Christian princes was cold and tardy;
but in the first apprehension of a siege, Constantine had
negotiated, in the isles of the Archipelago, the Morea, and
Sicily, the most indispensable supplies. As early as the
beginning of April, five ^42 great ships, equipped for
merchandise and war, would have sailed from the harbor of Chios,
had not the wind blown obstinately from the north. ^43 One of
these ships bore the Imperial flag; the remaining four belonged
to the Genoese; and they were laden with wheat and barley, with
wine, oil, and vegetables, and, above all, with soldiers and
mariners for the service of the capital. After a tedious delay, a
gentle breeze, and, on the second day, a strong gale from the
south, carried them through the Hellespont and the Propontis: but
the city was already invested by sea and land; and the Turkish
fleet, at the entrance of the Bosphorus, was stretched from shore
to shore, in the form of a crescent, to intercept, or at least to
repel, these bold auxiliaries. The reader who has present to his
mind the geographical picture of Constantinople, will conceive
and admire the greatness of the spectacle. The five Christian
ships continued to advance with joyful shouts, and a full press
both of sails and oars, against a hostile fleet of three hundred
vessels; and the rampart, the camp, the coasts of Europe and
Asia, were lined with innumerable spectators, who anxiously
awaited the event of this momentous succor. At the first view
that event could not appear doubtful; the superiority of the
Moslems was beyond all measure or account: and, in a calm, their
numbers and valor must inevitably have prevailed. But their hasty
and imperfect navy had been created, not by the genius of the
people, but by the will of the sultan: in the height of their
prosperity, the Turks have acknowledged, that if God had given
them the earth, he had left the sea to the infidels; ^44 and a
series of defeats, a rapid progress of decay, has established the
truth of their modest confession. Except eighteen galleys of some
force, the rest of their fleet consisted of open boats, rudely
constructed and awkwardly managed, crowded with troops, and
destitute of cannon; and since courage arises in a great measure
from the consciousness of strength, the bravest of the Janizaries
might tremble on a new element. In the Christian squadron, five
stout and lofty ships were guided by skilful pilots, and manned
with the veterans of Italy and Greece, long practised in the arts
and perils of the sea. Their weight was directed to sink or
scatter the weak obstacles that impeded their passage: their
artillery swept the waters: their liquid fire was poured on the
heads of the adversaries, who, with the design of boarding,
presumed to approach them; and the winds and waves are always on
the side of the ablest navigators. In this conflict, the Imperial
vessel, which had been almost overpowered, was rescued by the
Genoese; but the Turks, in a distant and closer attack, were
twice repulsed with considerable loss. Mahomet himself sat on
horseback on the beach to encourage their valor by his voice and
presence, by the promise of reward, and by fear more potent than
the fear of the enemy. The passions of his soul, and even the
gestures of his body, ^45 seemed to imitate the actions of the
combatants; and, as if he had been the lord of nature, he spurred
his horse with a fearless and impotent effort into the sea. His
loud reproaches, and the clamors of the camp, urged the Ottomans
to a third attack, more fatal and bloody than the two former; and
I must repeat, though I cannot credit, the evidence of Phranza,
who affirms, from their own mouth, that they lost above twelve
thousand men in the slaughter of the day. They fled in disorder
to the shores of Europe and Asia, while the Christian squadron,
triumphant and unhurt, steered along the Bosphorus, and securely
anchored within the chain of the harbor. In the confidence of
victory, they boasted that the whole Turkish power must have
yielded to their arms; but the admiral, or captain bashaw, found
some consolation for a painful wound in his eye, by representing
that accident as the cause of his defeat. Balthi Ogli was a
renegade of the race of the Bulgarian princes: his military
character was tainted with the unpopular vice of avarice; and
under the despotism of the prince or people, misfortune is a
sufficient evidence of guilt. ^* His rank and services were
annihilated by the displeasure of Mahomet. In the royal presence,
the captain bashaw was extended on the ground by four slaves, and
received one hundred strokes with a golden rod: ^46 his death had
been pronounced; and he adored the clemency of the sultan, who
was satisfied with the milder punishment of confiscation and
exile. The introduction of this supply revived the hopes of the
Greeks, and accused the supineness of their Western allies.
Amidst the deserts of Anatolia and the rocks of Palestine, the
millions of the crusades had buried themselves in a voluntary and
inevitable grave; but the situation of the Imperial city was
strong against her enemies, and accessible to her friends; and a
rational and moderate armament of the marine states might have
saved the relics of the Roman name, and maintained a Christian
fortress in the heart of the Ottoman empire. Yet this was the
sole and feeble attempt for the deliverance of Constantinople:
the more distant powers were insensible of its danger; and the
ambassador of Hungary, or at least of Huniades, resided in the
Turkish camp, to remove the fears, and to direct the operations,
of the sultan. ^47</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: It is singular that the Greeks should not agree
in the number of these illustrious vessels; the
<strong><em>five</em></strong> of Ducas, the
<strong><em>four</em></strong>of Phranza and Leonardus, and the
<strong><em>two</em></strong> of Chalcondyles, must be extended
to the smaller, or confined to the larger, size. Voltaire, in
giving one of these ships to Frederic III., confounds the
emperors of the East and West.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: In bold defiance, or rather in gross ignorance,
of language and geography, the president Cousin detains them in
Chios with a south, and wafts them to Constantinople with a
north, wind.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: The perpetual decay and weakness of the Turkish
navy may be observed in Ricaut, (State of the Ottoman Empire, p.
372--378,) Thevenot, (Voyages, P. i. p. 229--242, and Tott,
(M&eacute;moires, tom. iii;) the last of whom is always
solicitous to amuse and amaze his reader.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: I must confess that I have before my eyes the
living picture which Thucydides (l. vii. c. 71) has drawn of the
passions and gestures of the Athenians in a naval engagement in
the great harbor of Syracuse.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: According to Ducas, one of the Afabi beat out his
eye with a stone Compare Von Hammer. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: According to the exaggeration or corrupt text of
Ducas, (c. 38,) this golden bar was of the enormous or incredible
weight of 500 libr&aelig;, or pounds. Bouillaud's reading of 500
drachms, or five pounds, is sufficient to exercise the arm of
Mahomet, and bruise the back of his admiral.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: Ducas, who confesses himself ill informed of the
affairs of Hungary assigns a motive of superstition, a fatal
belief that Constantinople would be the term of the Turkish
conquests. See Phranza (l. iii. c. 20) and Spondanus.]</p>

<p>It was difficult for the Greeks to penetrate the secret of the
divan; yet the Greeks are persuaded, that a resistance so
obstinate and surprising, had fatigued the perseverance of
Mahomet. He began to meditate a retreat; and the siege would have
been speedily raised, if the ambition and jealousy of the second
vizier had not opposed the perfidious advice of Calil Bashaw, who
still maintained a secret correspondence with the Byzantine
court. The reduction of the city appeared to be hopeless, unless
a double attack could be made from the harbor as well as from the
land; but the harbor was inaccessible: an impenetrable chain was
now defended by eight large ships, more than twenty of a smaller
size, with several galleys and sloops; and, instead of forcing
this barrier, the Turks might apprehend a naval sally, and a
second encounter in the open sea. In this perplexity, the genius
of Mahomet conceived and executed a plan of a bold and marvellous
cast, of transporting by land his lighter vessels and military
stores from the Bosphorus into the higher part of the harbor. The
distance is about ten ^* miles; the ground is uneven, and was
overspread with thickets; and, as the road must be opened behind
the suburb of Galata, their free passage or total destruction
must depend on the option of the Genoese. But these selfish
merchants were ambitious of the favor of being the last devoured;
and the deficiency of art was supplied by the strength of
obedient myriads. A level way was covered with a broad platform
of strong and solid planks; and to render them more slippery and
smooth, they were anointed with the fat of sheep and oxen.
Fourscore light galleys and brigantines, of fifty and thirty
oars, were disembarked on the Bosphorus shore; arranged
successively on rollers; and drawn forwards by the power of men
and pulleys. Two guides or pilots were stationed at the helm, and
the prow, of each vessel: the sails were unfurled to the winds;
and the labor was cheered by song and acclamation. In the course
of a single night, this Turkish fleet painfully climbed the hill,
steered over the plain, and was launched from the declivity into
the shallow waters of the harbor, far above the molestation of
the deeper vessels of the Greeks. The real importance of this
operation was magnified by the consternation and confidence which
it inspired: but the notorious, unquestionable fact was displayed
before the eyes, and is recorded by the pens, of the two nations.
^48 A similar stratagem had been repeatedly practised by the
ancients; ^49 the Ottoman galleys (I must again repeat) should be
considered as large boats; and, if we compare the magnitude and
the distance, the obstacles and the means, the boasted miracle
^50 has perhaps been equalled by the industry of our own times.
^51 As soon as Mahomet had occupied the upper harbor with a fleet
and army, he constructed, in the narrowest part, a bridge, or
rather mole, of fifty cubits in breadth, and one hundred in
length: it was formed of casks and hogsheads; joined with
rafters, linked with iron, and covered with a solid floor. On
this floating battery he planted one of his largest cannon, while
the fourscore galleys, with troops and scaling ladders,
approached the most accessible side, which had formerly been
stormed by the Latin conquerors. The indolence of the Christians
has been accused for not destroying these unfinished works; ^!
but their fire, by a superior fire, was controlled and silenced;
nor were they wanting in a nocturnal attempt to burn the vessels
as well as the bridge of the sultan. His vigilance prevented
their approach; their foremost galiots were sunk or taken; forty
youths, the bravest of Italy and Greece, were inhumanly massacred
at his command; nor could the emperor's grief be assuaged by the
just though cruel retaliation, of exposing from the walls the
heads of two hundred and sixty Mussulman captives. After a siege
of forty days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer be
averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double
attack: the fortifications, which had stood for ages against
hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman
cannon: many breaches were opened; and near the gate of St.
Romanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground. For the
payment of his feeble and mutinous troops, Constantine was
compelled to despoil the churches with the promise of a fourfold
restitution; and his sacrilege offered a new reproach to the
enemies of the union. A spirit of discord impaired the remnant of
the Christian strength; the Genoese and Venetian auxiliaries
asserted the preeminence of their respective service; and
Justiniani and the great duke, whose ambition was not
extinguished by the common danger, accused each other of
treachery and cowardice.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Six miles. Von Hammer. -- M.]?</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: The unanimous testimony of the four Greeks is
confirmed by Cantemir (p. 96) from the Turkish annals; but I
could wish to contract the distance of
<strong><em>ten</em></strong> * miles, and to prolong the term of
<strong><em>one</em></strong> night.</p>

<p>Note: * Six miles. Von Hammer. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Phranza relates two examples of a similar
transportation over the six miles of the Isthmus of Corinth; the
one fabulous, of Augustus after the battle of Actium; the other
true, of Nicetas, a Greek general in the xth century. To these he
might have added a bold enterprise of Hannibal, to introduce his
vessels into the harbor of Tarentum, (Polybius, l. viii. p. 749,
edit. Gronov. *)</p>

<p>Note: * Von Hammer gives a longer list of such
transportations, p. 533. Dion Cassius distinctly relates the
occurrence treated as fabulous by Gibbon. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: A Greek of Candia, who had served the Venetians
in a similar undertaking, (Spond. A.D. 1438, No. 37,) might
possibly be the adviser and agent of Mahomet.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: I particularly allude to our own embarkations on
the lakes of Canada in the years 1776 and 1777, so great in the
labor, so fruitless in the event.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: They were betrayed, according to some accounts,
by the Genoese of Galata. Von Hammer, p. 536. -- M.]</p>

<p>During the siege of Constantinople, the words of peace and
capitulation had been sometimes pronounced; and several embassies
had passed between the camp and the city. ^52 The Greek emperor
was humbled by adversity; and would have yielded to any terms
compatible with religion and royalty. The Turkish sultan was
desirous of sparing the blood of his soldiers; still more
desirous of securing for his own use the Byzantine treasures: and
he accomplished a sacred duty in presenting to the
<strong><em>Gabours</em></strong> the choice of circumcision, of
tribute, or of death. The avarice of Mahomet might have been
satisfied with an annual sum of one hundred thousand ducats; but
his ambition grasped the capital of the East: to the prince he
offered a rich equivalent, to the people a free toleration, or a
safe departure: but after some fruitless treaty, he declared his
resolution of finding either a throne, or a grave, under the
walls of Constantinople. A sense of honor, and the fear of
universal reproach, forbade Pal&aelig;ologus to resign the city
into the hands of the Ottomans; and he determined to abide the
last extremities of war. Several days were employed by the sultan
in the preparations of the assault; and a respite was granted by
his favorite science of astrology, which had fixed on the
twenty-ninth of May, as the fortunate and fatal hour. On the
evening of the twenty-seventh, he issued his final orders;
assembled in his presence the military chiefs, and dispersed his
heralds through the camp to proclaim the duty, and the motives,
of the perilous enterprise. Fear is the first principle of a
despotic government; and his menaces were expressed in the
Oriental style, that the fugitives and deserters, had they the
wings of a bird, ^53 should not escape from his inexorable
justice. The greatest part of his bashaws and Janizaries were the
offspring of Christian parents: but the glories of the Turkish
name were perpetuated by successive adoption; and in the gradual
change of individuals, the spirit of a legion, a regiment, or an
<strong><em>oda</em></strong>, is kept alive by imitation and
discipline. In this holy warfare, the Moslems were exhorted to
purify their minds with prayer, their bodies with seven
ablutions; and to abstain from food till the close of the ensuing
day. A crowd of dervises visited the tents, to instil the desire
of martyrdom, and the assurance of spending an immortal youth
amidst the rivers and gardens of paradise, and in the embraces of
the black-eyed virgins. Yet Mahomet principally trusted to the
efficacy of temporal and visible rewards. A double pay was
promised to the victorious troops: "The city and the buildings,"
said Mahomet, "are mine; but I resign to your valor the captives
and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be
happy. Many are the provinces of my empire: the intrepid soldier
who first ascends the walls of Constantinople shall be rewarded
with the government of the fairest and most wealthy; and my
gratitude shall accumulate his honors and fortunes above the
measure of his own hopes." Such various and potent motives
diffused among the Turks a general ardor, regardless of life and
impatient for action: the camp reechoed with the Moslem shouts of
"God is God: there is but one God, and Mahomet is the apostle of
God;" ^54 and the sea and land, from Galata to the seven towers,
were illuminated by the blaze of their nocturnal fires. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Chalcondyles and Ducas differ in the time and
circumstances of the negotiation; and as it was neither glorious
nor salutary, the faithful Phranza spares his prince even the
thought of a surrender.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: These wings (Chalcondyles, l. viii. p. 208) are
no more than an Oriental figure: but in the tragedy of Irene,
Mahomet's passion soars above sense and reason: --</p>

<p>Should the fierce North, upon his frozen wings.</p>

<p>Bear him aloft above the wondering clouds,</p>

<p>And seat him in the Pleiads' golden chariot --</p>

<p>Then should my fury drag him down to tortures.</p>

<p>Besides the extravagance of the rant, I must observe, 1. That
the operation of the winds must be confined to the
<strong><em>lower</em></strong> region of the air. 2. That the
name, etymology, and fable of the Pleiads are purely Greek,
(Scholiast ad Homer, S. 686. Eudocia in Ioni&acirc;, p. 399.
Apollodor. l. iii. c. 10. Heyne, p. 229, Not. 682,) and had no
affinity with the astronomy of the East, (Hyde ad Ulugbeg, Tabul.
in Syntagma Dissert. tom. i. p. 40, 42. Goguet, Origine des Arts,
&amp;c., tom. vi. p. 73--78. Gebelin, Hist. du Calendrier, p.
73,) which Mahomet had studied. 3. The golden chariot does not
exist either in science or fiction; but I much fear Dr. Johnson
has confounded the Pleiads with the great bear or wagon, the
zodiac with a northern constellation: --</p>

<p>''Ark-on q' hn kai amaxan epiklhsin kaleouein. Il. S. 487.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: Phranza quarrels with these Moslem acclamations,
not for the name of God, but for that of the prophet: the pious
zeal of Voltaire is excessive, and even ridiculous.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The picture is heightened by the addition of the
wailing cries of Kyris, which were heard from the dark interior
of the city. Von Hammer p. 539. -- M.]</p>

<p>Far different was the state of the Christians; who, with loud
and impotent complaints, deplored the guilt, or the punishment,
of their sins. The celestial image of the Virgin had been exposed
in solemn procession; but their divine patroness was deaf to
their entreaties: they accused the obstinacy of the emperor for
refusing a timely surrender; anticipated the horrors of their
fate; and sighed for the repose and security of Turkish
servitude. The noblest of the Greeks, and the bravest of the
allies, were summoned to the palace, to prepare them, on the
evening of the twenty-eighth, for the duties and dangers of the
general assault. The last speech of Pal&aelig;ologus was the
funeral oration of the Roman empire: ^55 he promised, he
conjured, and he vainly attempted to infuse the hope which was
extinguished in his own mind. In this world all was comfortless
and gloomy; and neither the gospel nor the church have proposed
any conspicuous recompense to the heroes who fall in the service
of their country. But the example of their prince, and the
confinement of a siege, had armed these warriors with the courage
of despair, and the pathetic scene is described by the feelings
of the historian Phranza, who was himself present at this
mournful assembly. They wept, they embraced; regardless of their
families and fortunes, they devoted their lives; and each
commander, departing to his station, maintained all night a
vigilant and anxious watch on the rampart. The emperor, and some
faithful companions, entered the dome of St. Sophia, which in a
few hours was to be converted into a mosque; and devoutly
received, with tears and prayers, the sacrament of the holy
communion. He reposed some moments in the palace, which resounded
with cries and lamentations; solicited the pardon of all whom he
might have injured; ^56 and mounted on horseback to visit the
guards, and explore the motions of the enemy. The distress and
fall of the last Constantine are more glorious than the long
prosperity of the Byzantine C&aelig;sars. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: I am afraid that this discourse was composed by
Phranza himself; and it smells so grossly of the sermon and the
convent, that I almost doubt whether it was pronounced by
Constantine. Leonardus assigns him another speech, in which he
addresses himself more respectfully to the Latin
auxiliaries.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: This abasement, which devotion has sometimes
extorted from dying princes, is an improvement of the gospel
doctrine of the forgiveness of injuries: it is more easy to
forgive 490 times, than once to ask pardon of an inferior.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Compare the very curious Armenian elegy on the
fall of Constantinople, translated by M. Bor&eacute;, in the
Journal Asiatique for March, 1835; and by M. Brosset, in the new
edition of Le Beau, (tom. xxi. p. 308.) The author thus ends his
poem: "I, Abraham, loaded with sins, have composed this elegy
with the most lively sorrow; for I have seen Constantinople in
the days of its glory." -- M.]</p>

<p>In the confusion of darkness, an assailant may sometimes
succeed; out in this great and general attack, the military
judgment and astrological knowledge of Mahomet advised him to
expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the
fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian &aelig;ra.
The preceding night had been strenuously employed: the troops,
the cannons, and the fascines, were advanced to the edge of the
ditch, which in many parts presented a smooth and level passage
to the breach; and his fourscore galleys almost touched, with the
prows and their scaling-ladders, the less defensible walls of the
harbor. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined: but the
physical laws of motion and sound are not obedient to discipline
or fear; each individual might suppress his voice and measure his
footsteps; but the march and labor of thousands must inevitably
produce a strange confusion of dissonant clamors, which reached
the ears of the watchmen of the towers. At daybreak, without the
customary signal of the morning gun, the Turks assaulted the city
by sea and land; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread
has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of
attack. ^57 The foremost ranks consisted of the refuse of the
host, a voluntary crowd who fought without order or command; of
the feebleness of age or childhood, of peasants and vagrants, and
of all who had joined the camp in the blind hope of plunder and
martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the wall; the
most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated; and not a
dart, not a bullet, of the Christians, was idly wasted on the
accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were
exhausted in this laborious defence: the ditch was filled with
the bodies of the slain; they supported the footsteps of their
companions; and of this devoted vanguard the death was more
serviceable than the life. Under their respective bashaws and
sanjaks, the troops of Anatolia and Romania were successively led
to the charge: their progress was various and doubtful; but,
after a conflict of two hours, the Greeks still maintained, and
improved their advantage; and the voice of the emperor was heard,
encouraging his soldiers to achieve, by a last effort, the
deliverance of their country. In that fatal moment, the
Janizaries arose, fresh, vigorous, and invincible. The sultan
himself on horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the
spectator and judge of their valor: he was surrounded by ten
thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the
decisive occasion; and the tide of battle was directed and
impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers of justice
were posted behind the line, to urge, to restrain, and to punish;
and if danger was in the front, shame and inevitable death were
in the rear, of the fugitives. The cries of fear and of pain were
drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs;
and experience has proved, that the mechanical operation of
sounds, by quickening the circulation of the blood and spirits,
will act on the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of
reason and honor. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge,
the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and
city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke
which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or
destruction of the Roman empire. The single combats of the heroes
of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections:
the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a
necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and
odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror,
and confusion nor shall I strive, at the distance of three
centuries, and a thousand miles, to delineate a scene of which
there could be no spectators, and of which the actors themselves
were incapable of forming any just or adequate idea.</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Besides the 10,000 guards, and the sailors and
the marines, Ducas numbers in this general assault 250,000 Turks,
both horse and foot.]</p>

<p>The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the
bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani.
The sight of his blood, and the exquisite pain, appalled the
courage of the chief, whose arms and counsels were the firmest
rampart of the city. As he withdrew from his station in quest of
a surgeon, his flight was perceived and stopped by the
indefatigable emperor. "Your wound," exclaimed Pal&aelig;ologus,
"is slight; the danger is pressing: your presence is necessary;
and whither will you retire?" -- "I will retire," said the
trembling Genoese, "by the same road which God has opened to the
Turks;" and at these words he hastily passed through one of the
breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanimous act he stained
the honors of a military life; and the few days which he survived
in Galata, or the Isle of Chios, were embittered by his own and
the public reproach. ^58 His example was imitated by the greatest
part of the Latin auxiliaries, and the defence began to slacken
when the attack was pressed with redoubled vigor. The number of
the Ottomans was fifty, perhaps a hundred, times superior to that
of the Christians; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to
a heap of ruins: in a circuit of several miles, some places must
be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded; and if the
besiegers could penetrate in a single point, the whole city was
irrecoverably lost. The first who deserved the sultan's reward
was Hassan the Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With
his cimeter in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended
the outward fortification: of the thirty Janizaries, who were
emulous of his valor, eighteen perished in the bold adventure.
Hassan and his twelve companions had reached the summit: the
giant was precipitated from the rampart: he rose on one knee, and
was again oppressed by a shower of darts and stones. But his
success had proved that the achievement was possible: the walls
and towers were instantly covered with a swarm of Turks; and the
Greeks, now driven from the vantage ground, were overwhelmed by
increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, ^59
who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was
long seen and finally lost. The nobles, who fought round his
person, sustained, till their last breath, the honorable names of
Pal&aelig;ologus and Cantacuzene: his mournful exclamation was
heard, "Cannot there be found a Christian to cut off my head?"
^60 and his last fear was that of falling alive into the hands of
the infidels. ^61 The prudent despair of Constantine cast away
the purple: amidst the tumult he fell by an unknown hand, and his
body was buried under a mountain of the slain. After his death,
resistance and order were no more: the Greeks fled towards the
city; and many were pressed and stifled in the narrow pass of the
gate of St. Romanus. The victorious Turks rushed through the
breaches of the inner wall; and as they advanced into the
streets, they were soon joined by their brethren, who had forced
the gate Phenar on the side of the harbor. ^62 In the first heat
of the pursuit, about two thousand Christians were put to the
sword; but avarice soon prevailed over cruelty; and the victors
acknowledged, that they should immediately have given quarter if
the valor of the emperor and his chosen bands had not prepared
them for a similar opposition in every part of the capital. It
was thus, after a siege of fifty-three days, that Constantinople,
which had defied the power of Chosroes, the Chagan, and the
caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mahomet the
Second. Her empire only had been subverted by the Latins: her
religion was trampled in the dust by the Moslem conquerors.
^63</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: In the severe censure of the flight of
Justiniani, Phranza expresses his own feelings and those of the
public. For some private reasons, he is treated with more lenity
and respect by Ducas; but the words of Leonardus Chiensis express
his strong and recent indignation, glori&aelig; salutis suique
oblitus. In the whole series of their Eastern policy, his
countrymen, the Genoese, were always suspected, and often guilty.
*</p>

<p>Note: * M. Brosset has given some extracts from the Georgian
account of the siege of Constantinople, in which Justiniani's
wound in the left foot is represented as more serious. With
charitable ambiguity the chronicler adds that his soldiers
carried him away with them in their vessel. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Ducas kills him with two blows of Turkish
soldiers; Chalcondyles wounds him in the shoulder, and then
tramples him in the gate. The grief of Phranza, carrying him
among the enemy, escapes from the precise image of his death; but
we may, without flattery, apply these noble lines of Dryden:
--</p>

<p>As to Sebastian, let them search the field;</p>

<p>And where they find a mountain of the slain,</p>

<p>Send one to climb, and looking down beneath,</p>

<p>There they will find him at his manly length,</p>

<p>With his face up to heaven, in that red monument</p>

<p>Which his good sword had digged.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: Spondanus, (A.D. 1453, No. 10,) who has hopes of
his salvation, wishes to absolve this demand from the guilt of
suicide.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: Leonardus Chiensis very properly observes, that
the Turks, had they known the emperor, would have labored to save
and secure a captive so acceptable to the sultan.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Cantemir, p. 96. The Christian ships in the
mouth of the harbor had flanked and retarded this naval
attack.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: Chalcondyles most absurdly supposes, that
Constantinople was sacked by the Asiatics in revenge for the
ancient calamities of Troy; and the grammarians of the xvth
century are happy to melt down the uncouth appellation of Turks
into the more classical name of
<strong><em>Teucri</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>The tidings of misfortune fly with a rapid wing; yet such was
the extent of Constantinople, that the more distant quarters
might prolong, some moments, the happy ignorance of their ruin.
^64 But in the general consternation, in the feelings of selfish
or social anxiety, in the tumult and thunder of the assault, a
<strong><em>sleepless</em></strong> night and morning ^* must
have elapsed; nor can I believe that many Grecian ladies were
awakened by the Janizaries from a sound and tranquil slumber. On
the assurance of the public calamity, the houses and convents
were instantly deserted; and the trembling inhabitants flocked
together in the streets, like a herd of timid animals, as if
accumulated weakness could be productive of strength, or in the
vain hope, that amid the crowd each individual might be safe and
invisible. From every part of the capital, they flowed into the
church of St. Sophia: in the space of an hour, the sanctuary, the
choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with
the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of
priests, monks, and religious virgins: the doors were barred on
the inside, and they sought protection from the sacred dome,
which they had so lately abhorred as a profane and polluted
edifice. Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an
enthusiast or impostor; that one day the Turks would enter
Constantinople, and pursue the Romans as far as the column of
Constantine in the square before St. Sophia: but that this would
be the term of their calamities: that an angel would descend from
heaven, with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire,
with that celestial weapon, to a poor man seated at the foot of
the column. "Take this sword," would he say, "and avenge the
people of the Lord." At these animating words, the Turks would
instantly fly, and the victorious Romans would drive them from
the West, and from all Anatolia as far as the frontiers of
Persia. It is on this occasion that Ducas, with some fancy and
much truth, upbraids the discord and obstinacy of the Greeks.
"Had that angel appeared," exclaims the historian, "had he
offered to exterminate your foes if you would consent to the
union of the church, even event then, in that fatal moment, you
would have rejected your safety, or have deceived your God."
^65</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: When Cyrus suppressed Babylon during the
celebration of a festival, so vast was the city, and so careless
were the inhabitants, that much time elapsed before the distant
quarters knew that they were captives. Herodotus, (l. i. c. 191,)
and Usher, (Annal. p. 78,) who has quoted from the prophet
Jeremiah a passage of similar import.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This refers to an expression in Ducas, who, to
heighten the effect of his description, speaks of the "sweet
morning sleep resting on the eyes of youths and maidens," p. 288.
Edit. Bekker. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: This lively description is extracted from Ducas,
(c. 39,) who two years afterwards was sent ambassador from the
prince of Lesbos to the sultan, (c. 44.) Till Lesbos was subdued
in 1463, (Phranza, l. iii. c. 27,) that island must have been
full of the fugitives of Constantinople, who delighted to repeat,
perhaps to adorn, the tale of their misery.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second,
Extinction Of Eastern Empire. -- Part IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>While they expected the descent of the tardy angel, the doors
were broken with axes; and as the Turks encountered no
resistance, their bloodless hands were employed in selecting and
securing the multitude of their prisoners. Youth, beauty, and the
appearance of wealth, attracted their choice; and the right of
property was decided among themselves by a prior seizure, by
personal strength, and by the authority of command. In the space
of an hour, the male captives were bound with cords, the females
with their veils and girdles. The senators were linked with their
slaves; the prelates, with the porters of the church; and young
men of the plebeian class, with noble maids, whose faces had been
invisible to the sun and their nearest kindred. In this common
captivity, the ranks of society were confounded; the ties of
nature were cut asunder; and the inexorable soldier was careless
of the father's groans, the tears of the mother, and the
lamentations of the children. The loudest in their wailings were
the nuns, who were torn from the altar with naked bosoms,
outstretched hands, and dishevelled hair; and we should piously
believe that few could be tempted to prefer the vigils of the
harem to those of the monastery. Of these unfortunate Greeks, of
these domestic animals, whole strings were rudely driven through
the streets; and as the conquerors were eager to return for more
prey, their trembling pace was quickened with menaces and blows.
At the same hour, a similar rapine was exercised in all the
churches and monasteries, in all the palaces and habitations, of
the capital; nor could any place, however sacred or sequestered,
protect the persons or the property of the Greeks. Above sixty
thousand of this devoted people were transported from the city to
the camp and fleet; exchanged or sold according to the caprice or
interest of their masters, and dispersed in remote servitude
through the provinces of the Ottoman empire. Among these we may
notice some remarkable characters. The historian Phranza, first
chamberlain and principal secretary, was involved with his family
in the common lot. After suffering four months the hardships of
slavery, he recovered his freedom: in the ensuing winter he
ventured to Adrianople, and ransomed his wife from the
<strong><em>mir bashi</em></strong>, or master of the horse; but
his two children, in the flower of youth and beauty, had been
seized for the use of Mahomet himself. The daughter of Phranza
died in the seraglio, perhaps a virgin: his son, in the fifteenth
year of his age, preferred death to infamy, and was stabbed by
the hand of the royal lover. ^66 A deed thus inhuman cannot
surely be expiated by the taste and liberality with which he
released a Grecian matron and her two daughters, on receiving a
Latin doe From ode from Philelphus, who had chosen a wife in that
noble family. ^67 The pride or cruelty of Mahomet would have been
most sensibly gratified by the capture of a Roman legate; but the
dexterity of Cardinal Isidore eluded the search, and he escaped
from Galata in a plebeian habit. ^68 The chain and entrance of
the outward harbor was still occupied by the Italian ships of
merchandise and war. They had signalized their valor in the
siege: they embraced the moment of retreat, while the Turkish
mariners were dissipated in the pillage of the city. When they
hoisted sail, the beach was covered with a suppliant and
lamentable crowd; but the means of transportation were scanty:
the Venetians and Genoese selected their countrymen; and,
notwithstanding the fairest promises of the sultan, the
inhabitants of Galata evacuated their houses, and embarked with
their most precious effects.</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: See Phranza, l. iii. c. 20, 21. His expressions
are positive: Ameras su&acirc; man&ucirc; jugulavit . . . .
volebat enim eo turpiter et nefarie abuti. Me miserum et
infelicem! Yet he could only learn from report the bloody or
impure scenes that were acted in the dark recesses of the
seraglio.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: See Tiraboschi (tom. vi. P. i. p. 290) and
Lancelot, (M&eacute;m. de l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions,
tom. x. p. 718.) I should be curious to learn how he could praise
the public enemy, whom he so often reviles as the most corrupt
and inhuman of tyrants.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: The commentaries of Pius II. suppose that he
craftily placed his cardinal's hat on the head of a corpse which
was cut off and exposed in triumph, while the legate himself was
bought and delivered as a captive of no value. The great Belgic
Chronicle adorns his escape with new adventures, which he
suppressed (says Spondanus, A.D. 1453, No. 15) in his own
letters, lest he should lose the merit and reward of suffering
for Christ. *</p>

<p>Note: * He was sold as a slave in Galata, according to Von
Hammer, p. 175. See the somewhat vague and declamatory letter of
Cardinal Isidore, in the appendix to Clarke's Travels, vol. ii.
p. 653. -- M.]</p>

<p>In the fall and the sack of great cities, an historian is
condemned to repeat the tale of uniform calamity: the same
effects must be produced by the same passions; and when those
passions may be indulged without control, small, alas! is the
difference between civilized and savage man. Amidst the vague
exclamations of bigotry and hatred, the Turks are not accused of
a wanton or immoderate effusion of Christian blood: but according
to their maxims, (the maxims of antiquity,) the lives of the
vanquished were forfeited; and the legitimate reward of the
conqueror was derived from the service, the sale, or the ransom,
of his captives of both sexes. ^69 The wealth of Constantinople
had been granted by the sultan to his victorious troops; and the
rapine of an hour is more productive than the industry of years.
But as no regular division was attempted of the spoil, the
respective shares were not determined by merit; and the rewards
of valor were stolen away by the followers of the camp, who had
declined the toil and danger of the battle. The narrative of
their depredations could not afford either amusement or
instruction: the total amount, in the last poverty of the empire,
has been valued at four millions of ducats; ^70 and of this sum a
small part was the property of the Venetians, the Genoese, the
Florentines, and the merchants of Ancona. Of these foreigners,
the stock was improved in quick and perpetual circulation: but
the riches of the Greeks were displayed in the idle ostentation
of palaces and wardrobes, or deeply buried in treasures of ingots
and old coin, lest it should be demanded at their hands for the
defence of their country. The profanation and plunder of the
monasteries and churches excited the most tragic complaints. The
dome of St. Sophia itself, the earthly heaven, the second
firmament, the vehicle of the cherubim, the throne of the glory
of God, ^71 was despoiled of the oblation of ages; and the gold
and silver, the pearls and jewels, the vases and sacerdotal
ornaments, were most wickedly converted to the service of
mankind. After the divine images had been stripped of all that
could be valuable to a profane eye, the canvas, or the wood, was
torn, or broken, or burnt, or trod under foot, or applied, in the
stables or the kitchen, to the vilest uses. The example of
sacrilege was imitated, however, from the Latin conquerors of
Constantinople; and the treatment which Christ, the Virgin, and
the saints, had sustained from the guilty Catholic, might be
inflicted by the zealous Mussulman on the monuments of idolatry.
Perhaps, instead of joining the public clamor, a philosopher will
observe, that in the decline of the arts the workmanship could
not be more valuable than the work, and that a fresh supply of
visions and miracles would speedily be renewed by the craft of
the priests and the credulity of the people. He will more
seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were
destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and
twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; ^72 ten
volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same
ignominious price, too high perhaps for a shelf of theology,
included the whole works of Aristotle and Homer, the noblest
productions of the science and literature of ancient Greece. We
may reflect with pleasure that an inestimable portion of our
classic treasures was safely deposited in Italy; and that the
mechanics of a German town had invented an art which derides the
havoc of time and barbarism.</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: Busbequius expatiates with pleasure and applause
on the rights of war, and the use of slavery, among the ancients
and the Turks, (de Legat. Turcic&acirc;, epist. iii. p.
161.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: This sum is specified in a marginal note of
Leunclavius, (Chalcondyles, l. viii. p. 211,) but in the
distribution to Venice, Genoa, Florence, and Ancona, of 50, 20,
and 15,000 ducats, I suspect that a figure has been dropped. Even
with the restitution, the foreign property would scarcely exceed
one fourth.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: See the enthusiastic praises and lamentations of
Phranza, (l. iii. c. 17.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: See Ducas, (c. 43,) and an epistle, July 15th,
1453, from Laurus Quirinus to Pope Nicholas V., (Hody de
Gr&aelig;cis, p. 192, from a MS. in the Cotton library.)]</p>

<p>From the first hour ^73 of the memorable twenty-ninth of May,
disorder and rapine prevailed in Constantinople, till the eighth
hour of the same day; when the sultan himself passed in triumph
through the gate of St. Romanus. He was attended by his viziers,
bashaws, and guards, each of whom (says a Byzantine historian)
was robust as Hercules, dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle
to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals. The conqueror ^74
gazed with satisfaction and wonder on the strange, though
splendid, appearance of the domes and palaces, so dissimilar from
the style of Oriental architecture. In the hippodrome, or
<strong><em>atmeidan</em></strong>, his eye was attracted by the
twisted column of the three serpents; and, as a trial of his
strength, he shattered with his iron mace or battle-axe the under
jaw of one of these monsters, ^75 which in the eyes of the Turks
were the idols or talismans of the city. ^* At the principal door
of St. Sophia, he alighted from his horse, and entered the dome;
and such was his jealous regard for that monument of his glory,
that on observing a zealous Mussulman in the act of breaking the
marble pavement, he admonished him with his cimeter, that, if the
spoil and captives were granted to the soldiers, the public and
private buildings had been reserved for the prince. By his
command the metropolis of the Eastern church was transformed into
a mosque: the rich and portable instruments of superstition had
been removed; the crosses were thrown down; and the walls, which
were covered with images and mosaics, were washed and purified,
and restored to a state of naked simplicity. On the same day, or
on the ensuing Friday, the <strong><em>muezin</em></strong>, or
crier, ascended the most lofty turret, and proclaimed the
<strong><em>ezan</em></strong>, or public invitation in the name
of God and his prophet; the imam preached; and Mahomet and Second
performed the <strong><em>namaz</em></strong> of prayer and
thanksgiving on the great altar, where the Christian mysteries
had so lately been celebrated before the last of the
C&aelig;sars. ^76 From St. Sophia he proceeded to the august, but
desolate mansion of a hundred successors of the great
Constantine, but which in a few hours had been stripped of the
pomp of royalty. A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of
human greatness forced itself on his mind; and he repeated an
elegant distich of Persian poetry: "The spider has wove his web
in the Imperial palace; and the owl hath sung her watch-song on
the towers of Afrasiab." ^77</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: The Julian Calendar, which reckons the days and
hours from midnight, was used at Constantinople. But Ducas seems
to understand the natural hours from sunrise.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: See the Turkish Annals, p. 329, and the Pandects
of Leunclavius, p. 448.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: I have had occasion (vol. ii. p. 100) to mention
this curious relic of Grecian antiquity.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Von Hammer passes over this circumstance, which
is treated by Dr. Clarke (Travels, vol. ii. p. 58, 4to. edit,) as
a fiction of Thevenot. Chishull states that the monument was
broken by some attendants of the Polish ambassador. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: We are obliged to Cantemir (p. 102) for the
Turkish account of the conversion of St. Sophia, so bitterly
deplored by Phranza and Ducas. It is amusing enough to observe,
in what opposite lights the same object appears to a Mussulman
and a Christian eye.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: This distich, which Cantemir gives in the
original, derives new beauties from the application. It was thus
that Scipio repeated, in the sack of Carthage, the famous
prophecy of Homer. The same generous feeling carried the mind of
the conqueror to the past or the future.]</p>

<p>Yet his mind was not satisfied, nor did the victory seem
complete, till he was informed of the fate of Constantine;
whether he had escaped, or been made prisoner, or had fallen in
the battle. Two Janizaries claimed the honor and reward of his
death: the body, under a heap of slain, was discovered by the
golden eagles embroidered on his shoes; the Greeks acknowledged,
with tears, the head of their late emperor; and, after exposing
the bloody trophy, ^78 Mahomet bestowed on his rival the honors
of a decent funeral. After his decease, Lucas Notaras, great
duke, ^79 and first minister of the empire, was the most
important prisoner. When he offered his person and his treasures
at the foot of the throne, "And why," said the indignant sultan,
"did you not employ these treasures in the defence of your prince
and country?" -- "They were yours," answered the slave; "God had
reserved them for your hands." -- "If he reserved them for me,"
replied the despot, "how have you presumed to withhold them so
long by a fruitless and fatal resistance?" The great duke alleged
the obstinacy of the strangers, and some secret encouragement
from the Turkish vizier; and from this perilous interview he was
at length dismissed with the assurance of pardon and protection.
Mahomet condescended to visit his wife, a venerable princess
oppressed with sickness and grief; and his consolation for her
misfortunes was in the most tender strain of humanity and filial
reverence. A similar clemency was extended to the principal
officers of state, of whom several were ransomed at his expense;
and during some days he declared himself the friend and father of
the vanquished people. But the scene was soon changed; and before
his departure, the hippodrome streamed with the blood of his
noblest captives. His perfidious cruelty is execrated by the
Christians: they adorn with the colors of heroic martyrdom the
execution of the great duke and his two sons; and his death is
ascribed to the generous refusal of delivering his children to
the tyrant's lust. ^* Yet a Byzantine historian has dropped an
unguarded word of conspiracy, deliverance, and Italian succor:
such treason may be glorious; but the rebel who bravely ventures,
has justly forfeited his life; nor should we blame a conqueror
for destroying the enemies whom he can no longer trust. On the
eighteenth of June the victorious sultan returned to Adrianople;
and smiled at the base and hollow embassies of the Christian
princes, who viewed their approaching ruin in the fall of the
Eastern empire.</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: I cannot believe with Ducas (see Spondanus, A.D.
1453, No. 13) that Mahomet sent round Persia, Arabia, &amp;c.,
the head of the Greek emperor: he would surely content himself
with a trophy less inhuman.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: Phranza was the personal enemy of the great
duke; nor could time, or death, or his own retreat to a
monastery, extort a feeling of sympathy or forgiveness. Ducas is
inclined to praise and pity the martyr; Chalcondyles is neuter,
but we are indebted to him for the hint of the Greek
conspiracy.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Von Hammer relates this undoubtingly, apparently
on good authority, p. 559. -- M.]</p>

<p>Constantinople had been left naked and desolate, without a
prince or a people. But she could not be despoiled of the
incomparable situation which marks her for the metropolis of a
great empire; and the genius of the place will ever triumph over
the accidents of time and fortune. Boursa and Adrianople, the
ancient seats of the Ottomans, sunk into provincial towns; and
Mahomet the Second established his own residence, and that of his
successors, on the same commanding spot which had been chosen by
Constantine. ^80 The fortifications of Galata, which might afford
a shelter to the Latins, were prudently destroyed; but the damage
of the Turkish cannon was soon repaired; and before the month of
August, great quantities of lime had been burnt for the
restoration of the walls of the capital. As the entire property
of the soil and buildings, whether public or private, or profane
or sacred, was now transferred to the conqueror, he first
separated a space of eight furlongs from the point of the
triangle for the establishment of his seraglio or palace. It is
here, in the bosom of luxury, that the <strong><em>Grand
Signor</em></strong> (as he has been emphatically named by the
Italians) appears to reign over Europe and Asia; but his person
on the shores of the Bosphorus may not always be secure from the
insults of a hostile navy. In the new character of a mosque, the
cathedral of St. Sophia was endowed with an ample revenue,
crowned with lofty minarets, and surrounded with groves and
fountains, for the devotion and refreshment of the Moslems. The
same model was imitated in the <strong><em>jami</em></strong>, or
royal mosques; and the first of these was built, by Mahomet
himself, on the ruins of the church of the holy apostles, and the
tombs of the Greek emperors. On the third day after the conquest,
the grave of Abu Ayub, or Job, who had fallen in the first siege
of the Arabs, was revealed in a vision; and it is before the
sepulchre of the martyr that the new sultans are girded with the
sword of empire. ^81 Constantinople no longer appertains to the
Roman historian; nor shall I enumerate the civil and religious
edifices that were profaned or erected by its Turkish masters:
the population was speedily renewed; and before the end of
September, five thousand families of Anatolia and Romania had
obeyed the royal mandate, which enjoined them, under pain of
death, to occupy their new habitations in the capital. The throne
of Mahomet was guarded by the numbers and fidelity of his Moslem
subjects: but his rational policy aspired to collect the remnant
of the Greeks; and they returned in crowds, as soon as they were
assured of their lives, their liberties, and the free exercise of
their religion. In the election and investiture of a patriarch,
the ceremonial of the Byzantine court was revived and imitated.
With a mixture of satisfaction and horror, they beheld the sultan
on his throne; who delivered into the hands of Gennadius the
crosier or pastoral staff, the symbol of his ecclesiastical
office; who conducted the patriarch to the gate of the seraglio,
presented him with a horse richly caparisoned, and directed the
viziers and bashaws to lead him to the palace which had been
allotted for his residence. ^82 The churches of Constantinople
were shared between the two religions: their limits were marked;
and, till it was infringed by Selim, the grandson of Mahomet, the
Greeks ^83 enjoyed above sixty years the benefit of this equal
partition. Encouraged by the ministers of the divan, who wished
to elude the fanaticism of the sultan, the Christian advocates
presumed to allege that this division had been an act, not of
generosity, but of justice; not a concession, but a compact; and
that if one half of the city had been taken by storm, the other
moiety had surrendered on the faith of a sacred capitulation. The
original grant had indeed been consumed by fire: but the loss was
supplied by the testimony of three aged Janizaries who remembered
the transaction; and their venal oaths are of more weight in the
opinion of Cantemir, than the positive and unanimous consent of
the history of the times. ^84</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: For the restitution of Constantinople and the
Turkish foundations, see Cantemir, (p. 102--109,) Ducas, (c. 42,)
with Thevenot, Tournefort, and the rest of our modern travellers.
From a gigantic picture of the greatness, population, &amp;c., of
Constantinople and the Ottoman empire, (Abr&eacute;g&eacute; de
l'Histoire Ottomane, tom. i. p. 16--21,) we may learn, that in
the year 1586 the Moslems were less numerous in the capital than
the Christians, or even the Jews.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: The <strong><em>Turb&eacute;</em></strong>, or
sepulchral monument of Abu Ayub, is described and engraved in the
Tableau G&eacute;n&eacute;rale de l'Empire Ottoman, (Paris 1787,
in large folio,) a work of less use, perhaps, than magnificence,
(tom. i. p. 305, 306.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: Phranza (l. iii. c. 19) relates the ceremony,
which has possibly been adorned in the Greek reports to each
other, and to the Latins. The fact is confirmed by Emanuel
Malaxus, who wrote, in vulgar Greek, the History of the
Patriarchs after the taking of Constantinople, inserted in the
Turco-Gr&aelig;cia of Crusius, (l. v. p. 106--184.) But the most
patient reader will not believe that Mahomet adopted the Catholic
form, "Sancta Trinitas qu&aelig; mihi donavit imperium te in
patriarcham nov&aelig; Rom&aelig; deligit."]</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: From the Turco-Gr&aelig;cia of Crusius, &amp;c.
Spondanus (A.D. 1453, No. 21, 1458, No. 16) describes the slavery
and domestic quarrels of the Greek church. The patriarch who
succeeded Gennadius threw himself in despair into a well.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: Cantemir (p. 101--105) insists on the unanimous
consent of the Turkish historians, ancient as well as modern, and
argues, that they would not have violated the truth to diminish
their national glory, since it is esteemed more honorable to take
a city by force than by composition. But, 1. I doubt this
consent, since he quotes no particular historian, and the Turkish
Annals of Leunclavius affirm, without exception, that Mahomet
took Constantinople <strong><em>per vim</em></strong>, (p. 329.)
2 The same argument may be turned in favor of the Greeks of the
times, who would not have forgotten this honorable and salutary
treaty. Voltaire, as usual, prefers the Turks to the
Christians.]</p>

<p>The remaining fragments of the Greek kingdom in Europe and
Asia I shall abandon to the Turkish arms; but the final
extinction of the two last dynasties ^85 which have reigned in
Constantinople should terminate the decline and fall of the Roman
empire in the East. The despots of the Morea, Demetrius and
Thomas, ^86 the two surviving brothers of the name of
Pal&aelig;ologus, were astonished by the death of the emperor
Constantine, and the ruin of the monarchy. Hopeless of defence,
they prepared, with the noble Greeks who adhered to their
fortune, to seek a refuge in Italy, beyond the reach of the
Ottoman thunder. Their first apprehensions were dispelled by the
victorious sultan, who contented himself with a tribute of twelve
thousand ducats; and while his ambition explored the continent
and the islands, in search of prey, he indulged the Morea in a
respite of seven years. But this respite was a period of grief,
discord, and misery. The <strong><em>hexamilion</em></strong>,
the rampart of the Isthmus, so often raised and so often
subverted, could not long be defended by three hundred Italian
archers: the keys of Corinth were seized by the Turks: they
returned from their summer excursions with a train of captives
and spoil; and the complaints of the injured Greeks were heard
with indifference and disdain. The Albanians, a vagrant tribe of
shepherds and robbers, filled the peninsula with rapine and
murder: the two despots implored the dangerous and humiliating
aid of a neighboring bashaw; and when he had quelled the revolt,
his lessons inculcated the rule of their future conduct. Neither
the ties of blood, nor the oaths which they repeatedly pledged in
the communion and before the altar, nor the stronger pressure of
necessity, could reconcile or suspend their domestic quarrels.
They ravaged each other's patrimony with fire and sword: the alms
and succors of the West were consumed in civil hostility; and
their power was only exerted in savage and arbitrary executions.
The distress and revenge of the weaker rival invoked their
supreme lord; and, in the season of maturity and revenge, Mahomet
declared himself the friend of Demetrius, and marched into the
Morea with an irresistible force. When he had taken possession of
Sparta, "You are too weak," said the sultan, "to control this
turbulent province: I will take your daughter to my bed; and you
shall pass the remainder of your life in security and honor."
Demetrius sighed and obeyed; surrendered his daughter and his
castles; followed to Adrianople his sovereign and his son; and
received for his own maintenance, and that of his followers, a
city in Thrace and the adjacent isles of Imbros, Lemnos, and
Samothrace. He was joined the next year by a companion ^* of
misfortune, the last of the Comnenian race, who, after the taking
of Constantinople by the Latins, had founded a new empire on the
coast of the Black Sea. ^87 In the progress of his Anatolian
conquest, Mahomet invested with a fleet and army the capital of
David, who presumed to style himself emperor of Trebizond; ^88
and the negotiation was comprised in a short and peremptory
question, "Will you secure your life and treasures by resigning
your kingdom? or had you rather forfeit your kingdom, your
treasures, and your life?" The feeble Comnenus was subdued by his
own fears, ^! and the example of a Mussulman neighbor, the prince
of Sinope, ^89 who, on a similar summons, had yielded a fortified
city, with four hundred cannon and ten or twelve thousand
soldiers. The capitulation of Trebizond was faithfully performed:
^* and the emperor, with his family, was transported to a castle
in Romania; but on a slight suspicion of corresponding with the
Persian king, David, and the whole Comnenian race, were
sacrificed to the jealousy or avarice of the conqueror. ^!! Nor
could the name of father long protect the unfortunate Demetrius
from exile and confiscation; his abject submission moved the pity
and contempt of the sultan; his followers were transplanted to
Constantinople; and his poverty was alleviated by a pension of
fifty thousand aspers, till a monastic habit and a tardy death
released Pal&aelig;ologus from an earthly master. It is not easy
to pronounce whether the servitude of Demetrius, or the exile of
his brother Thomas, ^90 be the most inglorious. On the conquest
of the Morea, the despot escaped to Corfu, and from thence to
Italy, with some naked adherents: his name, his sufferings, and
the head of the apostle St. Andrew, entitled him to the
hospitality of the Vatican; and his misery was prolonged by a
pension of six thousand ducats from the pope and cardinals. His
two sons, Andrew and Manuel, were educated in Italy; but the
eldest, contemptible to his enemies and burdensome to his
friends, was degraded by the baseness of his life and marriage. A
title was his sole inheritance; and that inheritance he
successively sold to the kings of France and Arragon. ^91 During
his transient prosperity, Charles the Eighth was ambitious of
joining the empire of the East with the kingdom of Naples: in a
public festival, he assumed the appellation and the purple of
<strong><em>Augustus</em></strong>: the Greeks rejoiced and the
Ottoman already trembled, at the approach of the French chivalry.
^92 Manuel Pal&aelig;ologus, the second son, was tempted to
revisit his native country: his return might be grateful, and
could not be dangerous, to the Porte: he was maintained at
Constantinople in safety and ease; and an honorable train of
Christians and Moslems attended him to the grave. If there be
some animals of so generous a nature that they refuse to
propagate in a domestic state, the last of the Imperial race must
be ascribed to an inferior kind: he accepted from the sultan's
liberality two beautiful females; and his surviving son was lost
in the habit and religion of a Turkish slave.</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: For the genealogy and fall of the Comneni of
Trebizond, see Ducange, (Fam. Byzant. p. 195;) for the last
Pal&aelig;ologi, the same accurate antiquarian, (p. 244, 247,
248.) The Pal&aelig;ologi of Montferrat were not extinct till the
next century; but they had forgotten their Greek origin and
kindred.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: In the worthless story of the disputes and
misfortunes of the two brothers, Phranza (l. iii. c. 21--30) is
too partial on the side of Thomas Ducas (c. 44, 45) is too brief,
and Chalcondyles (l. viii. ix. x.) too diffuse and
digressive.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Kalo-Johannes, the predecessor of David his
brother, the last emperor of Trebizond, had attempted to organize
a confederacy against Mahomet it comprehended Hassan Bei, sultan
of Mesopotamia, the Christian princes of Georgia and Iberia, the
emir of Sinope, and the sultan of Caramania. The negotiations
were interrupted by his sudden death, A.D. 1458. Fallmerayer, p.
257--260. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: See the loss or conquest of Trebizond in
Chalcondyles, (l. ix. p. 263--266,) Ducas, (c. 45,) Phranza, (l.
iii. c. 27,) and Cantemir, (p. 107.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: Though Tournefort (tom. iii. lettre xvii. p.
179) speaks of Trebizond as mal peupl&eacute;e, Peysonnel, the
latest and most accurate observer, can find 100,000 inhabitants,
(Commerce de la Mer Noire, tom. ii. p. 72, and for the province,
p. 53--90.) Its prosperity and trade are perpetually disturbed by
the factious quarrels of two <strong><em>odas</em></strong> of
Janizaries, in one which 30,000 Lazi are commonly enrolled,
(M&eacute;moires de Tott, tom. iii. p. 16, 17.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: According to the Georgian account of these
transactions, (translated by M. Brosset, additions to Le Beau,
vol. xxi. p. 325,) the emperor of Trebizond humbly entreated the
sultan to have the goodness to marry one of his daughters. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: Ismael Beg, prince of Sinope or Sinople, was
possessed (chiefly from his copper mines) of a revenue of 200,000
ducats, (Chalcond. l. ix. p. 258, 259.) Peysonnel (Commerce de la
Mer Noire, tom. ii. p. 100) ascribes to the modern city 60,000
inhabitants. This account seems enormous; yet it is by trading
with people that we become acquainted with their wealth and
numbers.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: M. Boissonade has published, in the fifth volume
of his Anecdota Gr&aelig;ca (p. 387, 401.) a very interesting
letter from George Amiroutzes, protovestiarius of Trebizond, to
Bessarion, describing the surrender of Trebizond, and the fate of
its chief inhabitants. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !!: See in Von Hammer, vol. ii. p. 60, the striking
account of the mother, the empress Helena the Cantacuzene, who,
in defiance of the edict, like that of Creon in the Greek
tragedy, dug the grave for her murdered children with her own
hand, and sank into it herself. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: Spondanus (from Gobelin Comment. Pii II. l. v.)
relates the arrival and reception of the despot Thomas at Rome,.
(A.D. 1461 No. NO. 3.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: By an act dated A.D. 1494, Sept. 6, and lately
transmitted from the archives of the Capitol to the royal library
of Paris, the despot Andrew Pal&aelig;ologus, reserving the
Morea, and stipulating some private advantages, conveys to
Charles VIII., king of France, the empires of Constantinople and
Trebizond, (Spondanus, A.D. 1495, No. 2.) M. D. Foncemagne
(M&eacute;m. de l'Acad&eacute;mie des Inscriptions, tom. xvii. p.
539--578) has bestowed a dissertation on his national title, of
which he had obtained a copy from Rome.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: See Philippe de Comines, (l. vii. c. 14,) who
reckons with pleasure the number of Greeks who were prepared to
rise, 60 miles of an easy navigation, eighteen days' journey from
Valona to Constantinople, &amp;c. On this occasion the Turkish
empire was saved by the policy of Venice.]</p>

<p>The importance of Constantinople was felt and magnified in its
loss: the pontificate of Nicholas the Fifth, however peaceful and
prosperous, was dishonored by the fall of the Eastern empire; and
the grief and terror of the Latins revived, or seemed to revive,
the old enthusiasm of the crusades. In one of the most distant
countries of the West, Philip duke of Burgundy entertained, at
Lisle in Flanders, an assembly of his nobles; and the pompous
pageants of the feast were skilfully adapted to their fancy and
feelings. ^93 In the midst of the banquet a gigantic Saracen
entered the hall, leading a fictitious elephant with a castle on
his back: a matron in a mourning robe, the symbol of religion,
was seen to issue from the castle: she deplored her oppression,
and accused the slowness of her champions: the principal herald
of the golden fleece advanced, bearing on his fist a live
pheasant, which, according to the rites of chivalry, he presented
to the duke. At this extraordinary summons, Philip, a wise and
aged prince, engaged his person and powers in the holy war
against the Turks: his example was imitated by the barons and
knights of the assembly: they swore to God, the Virgin, the
ladies and the <strong><em>pheasant</em></strong>; and their
particular vows were not less extravagant than the general
sanction of their oath. But the performance was made to depend on
some future and foreign contingency; and during twelve years,
till the last hour of his life, the duke of Burgundy might be
scrupulously, and perhaps sincerely, on the eve of his departure.
Had every breast glowed with the same ardor; had the union of the
Christians corresponded with their bravery; had every country,
from Sweden ^94 to Naples, supplied a just proportion of cavalry
and infantry, of men and money, it is indeed probable that
Constantinople would have been delivered, and that the Turks
might have been chased beyond the Hellespont or the Euphrates.
But the secretary of the emperor, who composed every epistle, and
attended every meeting, &AElig;neas Sylvius, ^95 a statesman and
orator, describes from his own experience the repugnant state and
spirit of Christendom. "It is a body," says he, "without a head;
a republic without laws or magistrates. The pope and the emperor
may shine as lofty titles, as splendid images; but
<strong><em>they</em></strong> are unable to command, and none
are willing to obey: every state has a separate prince, and every
prince has a separate interest. What eloquence could unite so
many discordant and hostile powers under the same standard? Could
they be assembled in arms, who would dare to assume the office of
general? What order could be maintained? -- what military
discipline? Who would undertake to feed such an enormous
multitude? Who would understand their various languages, or
direct their stranger and incompatible manners? What mortal could
reconcile the English with the French, Genoa with Arragon the
Germans with the natives of Hungary and Bohemia? If a small
number enlisted in the holy war, they must be overthrown by the
infidels; if many, by their own weight and confusion." Yet the
same &AElig;neas, when he was raised to the papal throne, under
the name of Pius the Second, devoted his life to the prosecution
of the Turkish war. In the council of Mantua he excited some
sparks of a false or feeble enthusiasm; but when the pontiff
appeared at Ancona, to embark in person with the troops,
engagements vanished in excuses; a precise day was adjourned to
an indefinite term; and his effective army consisted of some
German pilgrims, whom he was obliged to disband with indulgences
and arms. Regardless of futurity, his successors and the powers
of Italy were involved in the schemes of present and domestic
ambition; and the distance or proximity of each object determined
in their eyes its apparent magnitude. A more enlarged view of
their interest would have taught them to maintain a defensive and
naval war against the common enemy; and the support of Scanderbeg
and his brave Albanians might have prevented the subsequent
invasion of the kingdom of Naples. The siege and sack of Otranto
by the Turks diffused a general consternation; and Pope Sixtus
was preparing to fly beyond the Alps, when the storm was
instantly dispelled by the death of Mahomet the Second, in the
fifty-first year of his age. ^96 His lofty genius aspired to the
conquest of Italy: he was possessed of a strong city and a
capacious harbor; and the same reign might have been decorated
with the trophies of the New and the Ancient Rome. ^97</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: See the original feast in Olivier de la Marche,
(M&eacute;moires, P. i. c. 29, 30,) with the abstract and
observations of M. de Ste. Palaye, (M&eacute;moires sur la
Chevalerie, tom. i. P. iii. p. 182--185.) The peacock and the
pheasant were distinguished as royal birds.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: It was found by an actual enumeration, that
Sweden, Gothland, and Finland, contained 1,800,000 fighting men,
and consequently were far more populous than at present.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: In the year 1454, Spondanus has given, from
&AElig;neas Sylvius, a view of the state of Europe, enriched with
his own observations. That valuable annalist, and the Italian
Muratori, will continue the series of events from the year 1453
to 1481, the end of Mahomet's life, and of this chapter.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: Besides the two annalists, the reader may
consult Giannone (Istoria Civile, tom. iii. p. 449--455) for the
Turkish invasion of the kingdom of Naples. For the reign and
conquests of Mahomet II., I have occasionally used the Memorie
Istoriche de Monarchi Ottomanni di Giovanni Sagredo, (Venezia,
1677, in 4to.) In peace and war, the Turks have ever engaged the
attention of the republic of Venice. All her despatches and
archives were open to a procurator of St. Mark, and Sagredo is
not contemptible either in sense or style. Yet he too bitterly
hates the infidels: he is ignorant of their language and manners;
and his narrative, which allows only 70 pages to Mahomet II., (p.
69--140,) becomes more copious and authentic as he approaches the
years 1640 and 1644, the term of the historic labors of John
Sagredo.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: As I am now taking an everlasting farewell of
the Greek empire, I shall briefly mention the great collection of
Byzantine writers whose names and testimonies have been
successively repeated in this work. The Greeks presses of Aldus
and the Italians were confined to the classics of a better age;
and the first rude editions of Procopius, Agathias, Cedrenus,
Zonaras, &amp;c., were published by the learned diligence of the
Germans. The whole Byzantine series (xxxvi. volumes in folio) has
gradually issued (A.D. 1648, &amp;c.) from the royal press of the
Louvre, with some collateral aid from Rome and Leipsic; but the
Venetian edition, (A.D. 1729,) though cheaper and more copious,
is not less inferior in correctness than in magnificence to that
of Paris. The merits of the French editors are various; but the
value of Anna Comnena, Cinnamus, Villehardouin, &amp;c., is
enhanced by the historical notes of Charles de Fresne du Cange.
His supplemental works, the Greek Glossary, the Constantinopolis
Christiana, the Famili&aelig; Byzantin&aelig;, diffuse a steady
light over the darkness of the Lower Empire. *</p>

<p>Note: * The new edition of the Byzantines, projected by
Niebuhr, and continued under the patronage of the Prussian
government, is the most convenient in size, and contains some
authors (Leo Diaconus, Johannes Lydus, Corippus, the new fragment
of Dexippus, Eunapius, &amp;c., discovered by Mai) which could
not be comprised in the former collections; but the names of such
editors as Bekker, the Dindorfs, &amp;c., raised hopes of
something more than the mere republication of the text, and the
notes of former editors. Little, I regret to say, has been added
of annotation, and in some cases, the old incorrect versions have
been retained. -- M.]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXIX: State Of Rome From The Twelfth
Century.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>State Of Rome From The Twelfth Century. -- Temporal Dominion
Of The Popes. -- Seditions Of The City. -- Political Heresy Of
Arnold Of Brescia. -- Restoration Of The Republic. -- The
Senators. -- Pride Of The Romans. -- Their Wars. -- They Are
Deprived Of The Election And Presence Of The Popes, Who Retire To
Avignon. -- The Jubilee. -- Noble Families Of Rome. -- Feud Of
The Colonna And Ursini.</p>

<p>In the first ages of the decline and fall of the Roman empire,
our eye is invariably fixed on the royal city, which had given
laws to the fairest portion of the globe. We contemplate her
fortunes, at first with admiration, at length with pity, always
with attention, and when that attention is diverted from the
capital to the provinces, they are considered as so many branches
which have been successively severed from the Imperial trunk. The
foundation of a second Rome, on the shores of the Bosphorus, has
compelled the historian to follow the successors of Constantine;
and our curiosity has been tempted to visit the most remote
countries of Europe and Asia, to explore the causes and the
authors of the long decay of the Byzantine monarchy. By the
conquest of Justinian, we have been recalled to the banks of the
Tyber, to the deliverance of the ancient metropolis; but that
deliverance was a change, or perhaps an aggravation, of
servitude. Rome had been already stripped of her trophies, her
gods, and her C&aelig;sars; nor was the Gothic dominion more
inglorious and oppressive than the tyranny of the Greeks. In the
eighth century of the Christian &aelig;ra, a religious quarrel,
the worship of images, provoked the Romans to assert their
independence: their bishop became the temporal, as well as the
spiritual, father of a free people; and of the Western empire,
which was restored by Charlemagne, the title and image still
decorate the singular constitution of modern Germany. The name of
Rome must yet command our involuntary respect: the climate
(whatsoever may be its influence) was no longer the same: ^1 the
purity of blood had been contaminated through a thousand
channels; but the venerable aspect of her ruins, and the memory
of past greatness, rekindled a spark of the national character.
The darkness of the middle ages exhibits some scenes not unworthy
of our notice. Nor shall I dismiss the present work till I have
reviewed the state and revolutions of the Roman City, which
acquiesced under the absolute dominion of the popes, about the
same time that Constantinople was enslaved by the Turkish
arms.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: The abb&eacute; Dubos, who, with less genius than
his successor Montesquieu, has asserted and magnified the
influence of climate, objects to himself the degeneracy of the
Romans and Batavians. To the first of these examples he replies,
1. That the change is less real than apparent, and that the
modern Romans prudently conceal in themselves the virtues of
their ancestors. 2. That the air, the soil, and the climate of
Rome have suffered a great and visible alteration,
(R&eacute;flexions sur la Po&euml;sie et sur la Peinture, part
ii. sect. 16.) *</p>

<p>Note: * This question is discussed at considerable length in
Dr. Arnold's History of Rome, ch. xxiii. See likewise Bunsen's
Dissertation on the Aria Cattiva Roms Beschreibung, pp. 82, 108.
-- M.]</p>

<p>In the beginning of the twelfth century, ^2 the &aelig;ra of
the first crusade, Rome was revered by the Latins, as the
metropolis of the world, as the throne of the pope and the
emperor, who, from the eternal city, derived their title, their
honors, and the right or exercise of temporal dominion. After so
long an interruption, it may not be useless to repeat that the
successors of Charlemagne and the Othos were chosen beyond the
Rhine in a national diet; but that these princes were content
with the humble names of kings of Germany and Italy, till they
had passed the Alps and the Apennine, to seek their Imperial
crown on the banks of the Tyber. ^3 At some distance from the
city, their approach was saluted by a long procession of the
clergy and people with palms and crosses; and the terrific
emblems of wolves and lions, of dragons and eagles, that floated
in the military banners, represented the departed legions and
cohorts of the republic. The royal path to maintain the liberties
of Rome was thrice reiterated, at the bridge, the gate, and on
the stairs of the Vatican; and the distribution of a customary
donative feebly imitated the magnificence of the first
C&aelig;sars. In the church of St. Peter, the coronation was
performed by his successor: the voice of God was confounded with
that of the people; and the public consent was declared in the
acclamations of "Long life and victory to our lord the pope! long
life and victory to our lord the emperor! long life and victory
to the Roman and Teutonic armies!" ^4 The names of C&aelig;sar
and Augustus, the laws of Constantine and Justinian, the example
of Charlemagne and Otho, established the supreme dominion of the
emperors: their title and image was engraved on the papal coins;
^5 and their jurisdiction was marked by the sword of justice,
which they delivered to the pr&aelig;fect of the city. But every
Roman prejudice was awakened by the name, the language, and the
manners, of a Barbarian lord. The C&aelig;sars of Saxony or
Franconia were the chiefs of a feudal aristocracy; nor could they
exercise the discipline of civil and military power, which alone
secures the obedience of a distant people, impatient of
servitude, though perhaps incapable of freedom. Once, and once
only, in his life, each emperor, with an army of Teutonic
vassals, descended from the Alps. I have described the peaceful
order of his entry and coronation; but that order was commonly
disturbed by the clamor and sedition of the Romans, who
encountered their sovereign as a foreign invader: his departure
was always speedy, and often shameful; and, in the absence of a
long reign, his authority was insulted, and his name was
forgotten. The progress of independence in Germany and Italy
undermined the foundations of the Imperial sovereignty, and the
triumph of the popes was the deliverance of Rome.</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: The reader has been so long absent from Rome,
that I would advise him to recollect or review the xlixth chapter
of this History.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: The coronation of the German emperors at Rome,
more especially in the xith century, is best represented from the
original monuments by Muratori (Antiquitat. Itali&aelig; Medii
&AElig;vi, tom. i. dissertat. ii. p. 99, &amp;c.) and Cenni,
(Monument. Domin. Pontif. tom. ii. diss. vi. p. 261,) the latter
of whom I only know from the copious extract of Schmidt, (Hist.
des Allemands tom. iii. p. 255--266.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Exercitui Romano et Teutonico! The latter was
both seen and felt; but the former was no more than magni nominis
umbra.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Muratori has given the series of the papal coins,
(Antiquitat. tom. ii. diss. xxvii. p. 548--554.) He finds only
two more early than the year 800: fifty are still extant from Leo
III. to Leo IX., with the addition of the reigning emperor none
remain of Gregory VII. or Urban II.; but in those of Paschal II.
he seems to have renounced this badge of dependence.]</p>

<p>Of her two sovereigns, the emperor had precariously reigned by
the right of conquest; but the authority of the pope was founded
on the soft, though more solid, basis of opinion and habit. The
removal of a foreign influence restored and endeared the shepherd
to his flock. Instead of the arbitrary or venal nomination of a
German court, the vicar of Christ was freely chosen by the
college of cardinals, most of whom were either natives or
inhabitants of the city. The applause of the magistrates and
people confirmed his election, and the ecclesiastical power that
was obeyed in Sweden and Britain had been ultimately derived from
the suffrage of the Romans. The same suffrage gave a prince, as
well as a pontiff, to the capital. It was universally believed,
that Constantine had invested the popes with the temporal
dominion of Rome; and the boldest civilians, the most profane
skeptics, were satisfied with disputing the right of the emperor
and the validity of his gift. The truth of the fact, the
authenticity of his donation, was deeply rooted in the ignorance
and tradition of four centuries; and the fabulous origin was lost
in the real and permanent effects. The name of
<strong><em>Dominus</em></strong> or Lord was inscribed on the
coin of the bishops: their title was acknowledged by acclamations
and oaths of allegiance, and with the free, or reluctant, consent
of the German C&aelig;sars, they had long exercised a supreme or
subordinate jurisdiction over the city and patrimony of St.
Peter. The reign of the popes, which gratified the prejudices,
was not incompatible with the liberties, of Rome; and a more
critical inquiry would have revealed a still nobler source of
their power; the gratitude of a nation, whom they had rescued
from the heresy and oppression of the Greek tyrant. In an age of
superstition, it should seem that the union of the royal and
sacerdotal characters would mutually fortify each other; and that
the keys of Paradise would be the surest pledge of earthly
obedience. The sanctity of the office might indeed be degraded by
the personal vices of the man. But the scandals of the tenth
century were obliterated by the austere and more dangerous
virtues of Gregory the Seventh and his successors; and in the
ambitious contests which they maintained for the rights of the
church, their sufferings or their success must equally tend to
increase the popular veneration. They sometimes wandered in
poverty and exile, the victims of persecution; and the apostolic
zeal with which they offered themselves to martyrdom must engage
the favor and sympathy of every Catholic breast. And sometimes,
thundering from the Vatican, they created, judged, and deposed
the kings of the world; nor could the proudest Roman be disgraced
by submitting to a priest, whose feet were kissed, and whose
stirrup was held, by the successors of Charlemagne. ^6 Even the
temporal interest of the city should have protected in peace and
honor the residence of the popes; from whence a vain and lazy
people derived the greatest part of their subsistence and riches.
The fixed revenue of the popes was probably impaired; many of the
old patrimonial estates, both in Italy and the provinces, had
been invaded by sacrilegious hands; nor could the loss be
compensated by the claim, rather than the possession, of the more
ample gifts of Pepin and his descendants. But the Vatican and
Capitol were nourished by the incessant and increasing swarms of
pilgrims and suppliants: the pale of Christianity was enlarged,
and the pope and cardinals were overwhelmed by the judgment of
ecclesiastical and secular causes. A new jurisprudence had
established in the Latin church the right and practice of
appeals; ^7 and from the North and West the bishops and abbots
were invited or summoned to solicit, to complain, to accuse, or
to justify, before the threshold of the apostles. A rare prodigy
is once recorded, that two horses, belonging to the archbishops
of Mentz and Cologne, repassed the Alps, yet laden with gold and
silver: ^8 but it was soon understood, that the success, both of
the pilgrims and clients, depended much less on the justice of
their cause than on the value of their offering. The wealth and
piety of these strangers were ostentatiously displayed; and their
expenses, sacred or profane, circulated in various channels for
the emolument of the Romans.</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: See Ducange, Gloss. medi&aelig; et infim&aelig;
Latinitat. tom. vi. p. 364, 365, Staffa. This homage was paid by
kings to archbishops, and by vassals to their lords, (Schmidt,
tom. iii. p. 262;) and it was the nicest policy of Rome to
confound the marks of filial and of feudal subjection.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: The appeals from all the churches to the Roman
pontiff are deplored by the zeal of St. Bernard (de
Consideratione, l. iii. tom. ii. p. 431--442, edit. Mabillon,
Venet. 1750) and the judgment of Fleury, (Discours sur l'Hist.
Eccl&eacute;siastique, iv. et vii.) But the saint, who believed
in the false decretals condemns only the abuse of these appeals;
the more enlightened historian investigates the origin, and
rejects the principles, of this new jurisprudence.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: Germanici . . . . summarii non levatis sarcinis
onusti nihilominus repatriant inviti. Nova res! quando hactenus
aurum Roma refudit? Et nunc Romanorum consilio id usurpatum non
credimus, (Bernard, de Consideratione, l. iii. c. 3, p. 437.) The
first words of the passage are obscure, and probably
corrupt.]</p>

<p>Such powerful motives should have firmly attached the
voluntary and pious obedience of the Roman people to their
spiritual and temporal father. But the operation of prejudice and
interest is often disturbed by the sallies of ungovernable
passion. The Indian who fells the tree, that he may gather the
fruit, ^9 and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce, are
actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, which overlooks
the future in the present, and relinquishes for momentary rapine
the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.
And it was thus, that the shrine of St. Peter was profaned by the
thoughtless Romans; who pillaged the offerings, and wounded the
pilgrims, without computing the number and value of similar
visits, which they prevented by their inhospitable sacrilege.
Even the influence of superstition is fluctuating and precarious;
and the slave, whose reason is subdued, will often be delivered
by his avarice or pride. A credulous devotion for the fables and
oracles of the priesthood most powerfully acts on the mind of a
Barbarian; yet such a mind is the least capable of preferring
imagination to sense, of sacrificing to a distant motive, to an
invisible, perhaps an ideal, object, the appetites and interests
of the present world. In the vigor of health and youth, his
practice will perpetually contradict his belief; till the
pressure of age, or sickness, or calamity, awakens his terrors,
and compels him to satisfy the double debt of piety and remorse.
I have already observed, that the modern times of religious
indifference are the most favorable to the peace and security of
the clergy. Under the reign of superstition, they had much to
hope from the ignorance, and much to fear from the violence, of
mankind. The wealth, whose constant increase must have rendered
them the sole proprietors of the earth, was alternately bestowed
by the repentant father and plundered by the rapacious son: their
persons were adored or violated; and the same idol, by the hands
of the same votaries, was placed on the altar, or trampled in the
dust. In the feudal system of Europe, arms were the title of
distinction and the measure of allegiance; and amidst their
tumult, the still voice of law and reason was seldom heard or
obeyed. The turbulent Romans disdained the yoke, and insulted the
impotence, of their bishop: ^10 nor would his education or
character allow him to exercise, with decency or effect, the
power of the sword. The motives of his election and the frailties
of his life were exposed to their familiar observation; and
proximity must diminish the reverence which his name and his
decrees impressed on a barbarous world. This difference has not
escaped the notice of our philosophic historian: "Though the name
and authority of the court of Rome were so terrible in the remote
countries of Europe, which were sunk in profound ignorance, and
were entirely unacquainted with its character and conduct, the
pope was so little revered at home, that his inveterate enemies
surrounded the gates of Rome itself, and even controlled his
government in that city; and the ambassadors, who, from a distant
extremity of Europe, carried to him the humble, or rather abject,
submissions of the greatest potentate of the age, found the
utmost difficulty to make their way to him, and to throw
themselves at his feet." ^11</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir
du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied et cueillent le fruit.
Voila le gouvernement despotique, (Esprit des Loix, l. v. c. 13;)
and passion and ignorance are always despotic.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: In a free conversation with his countryman
Adrian IV., John of Salisbury accuses the avarice of the pope and
clergy: Provinciarum diripiunt spolia, ac si thesauros Crsi
studeant reparare. Sed recte cum eis agit Altissimus, quoniam et
ipsi aliis et s&aelig;pe vilissimis hominibus dati sunt in
direptionem, (de Nugis Curialium, l. vi. c. 24, p. 387.) In the
next page, he blames the rashness and infidelity of the Romans,
whom their bishops vainly strove to conciliate by gifts, instead
of virtues. It is pity that this miscellaneous writer has not
given us less morality and erudition, and more pictures of
himself and the times.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Hume's History of England, vol. i. p. 419. The
same writer has given us, from Fitz-Stephen, a singular act of
cruelty perpetrated on the clergy by Geoffrey, the father of
Henry II. "When he was master of Normandy, the chapter of Seez
presumed, without his consent, to proceed to the election of a
bishop: upon which he ordered all of them, with the bishop elect,
to be castrated, and made all their testicles be brought him in a
platter." Of the pain and danger they might justly complain; yet
since they had vowed chastity he deprived them of a superfluous
treasure.]</p>

<p>Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed
to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to
violence. But the long hostility of the mitre and the crown
increased the numbers, and inflamed the passions, of their
enemies. The deadly factions of the Guelphs and Ghibelines, so
fatal to Italy, could never be embraced with truth or constancy
by the Romans, the subjects and adversaries both of the bishop
and emperor; but their support was solicited by both parties, and
they alternately displayed in their banners the keys of St. Peter
and the German eagle. Gregory the Seventh, who may be adored or
detested as the founder of the papal monarchy, was driven from
Rome, and died in exile at Salerno. Six-and-thirty of his
successors, ^12 till their retreat to Avignon, maintained an
unequal contest with the Romans: their age and dignity were often
violated; and the churches, in the solemn rites of religion, were
polluted with sedition and murder. A repetition ^13 of such
capricious brutality, without connection or design, would be
tedious and disgusting; and I shall content myself with some
events of the twelfth century, which represent the state of the
popes and the city. On Holy Thursday, while Paschal officiated
before the altar, he was interrupted by the clamors of the
multitude, who imperiously demanded the confirmation of a
favorite magistrate. His silence exasperated their fury; his
pious refusal to mingle the affairs of earth and heaven was
encountered with menaces, and oaths, that he should be the cause
and the witness of the public ruin. During the festival of
Easter, while the bishop and the clergy, barefooted and in
procession, visited the tombs of the martyrs, they were twice
assaulted, at the bridge of St. Angelo, and before the Capitol,
with volleys of stones and darts. The houses of his adherents
were levelled with the ground: Paschal escaped with difficulty
and danger; he levied an army in the patrimony of St. Peter; and
his last days were embittered by suffering and inflicting the
calamities of civil war. The scenes that followed the election of
his successor Gelasius the Second were still more scandalous to
the church and city. Cencio Frangipani, ^14 a potent and factious
baron, burst into the assembly furious and in arms: the cardinals
were stripped, beaten, and trampled under foot; and he seized,
without pity or respect, the vicar of Christ by the throat.
Gelasius was dragged by the hair along the ground, buffeted with
blows, wounded with spurs, and bound with an iron chain in the
house of his brutal tyrant. An insurrection of the people
delivered their bishop: the rival families opposed the violence
of the Frangipani; and Cencio, who sued for pardon, repented of
the failure, rather than of the guilt, of his enterprise. Not
many days had elapsed, when the pope was again assaulted at the
altar. While his friends and enemies were engaged in a bloody
contest, he escaped in his sacerdotal garments. In this unworthy
flight, which excited the compassion of the Roman matrons, his
attendants were scattered or unhorsed; and, in the fields behind
the church of St. Peter, his successor was found alone and half
dead with fear and fatigue. Shaking the dust from his feet, the
<strong><em>apostle</em></strong> withdrew from a city in which
his dignity was insulted and his person was endangered; and the
vanity of sacerdotal ambition is revealed in the involuntary
confession, that one emperor was more tolerable than twenty. ^15
These examples might suffice; but I cannot forget the sufferings
of two pontiffs of the same age, the second and third of the name
of Lucius. The former, as he ascended in battle array to assault
the Capitol, was struck on the temple by a stone, and expired in
a few days. The latter was severely wounded in the person of his
servants. In a civil commotion, several of his priests had been
made prisoners; and the inhuman Romans, reserving one as a guide
for his brethren, put out their eyes, crowned them with ludicrous
mitres, mounted them on asses with their faces towards the tail,
and extorted an oath, that, in this wretched condition, they
should offer themselves as a lesson to the head of the church.
Hope or fear, lassitude or remorse, the characters of the men,
and the circumstances of the times, might sometimes obtain an
interval of peace and obedience; and the pope was restored with
joyful acclamations to the Lateran or Vatican, from whence he had
been driven with threats and violence. But the root of mischief
was deep and perennial; and a momentary calm was preceded and
followed by such tempests as had almost sunk the bark of St.
Peter. Rome continually presented the aspect of war and discord:
the churches and palaces were fortified and assaulted by the
factions and families; and, after giving peace to Europe,
Calistus the Second alone had resolution and power to prohibit
the use of private arms in the metropolis. Among the nations who
revered the apostolic throne, the tumults of Rome provoked a
general indignation; and in a letter to his disciple Eugenius the
Third, St. Bernard, with the sharpness of his wit and zeal, has
stigmatized the vices of the rebellious people. ^16 "Who is
ignorant," says the monk of Clairvaux, "of the vanity and
arrogance of the Romans? a nation nursed in sedition,
untractable, and scorning to obey, unless they are too feeble to
resist. When they promise to serve, they aspire to reign; if they
swear allegiance, they watch the opportunity of revolt; yet they
vent their discontent in loud clamors, if your doors, or your
counsels, are shut against them. Dexterous in mischief, they have
never learned the science of doing good. Odious to earth and
heaven, impious to God, seditious among themselves, jealous of
their neighbors, inhuman to strangers, they love no one, by no
one are they beloved; and while they wish to inspire fear, they
live in base and continual apprehension. They will not submit;
they know not how to govern faithless to their superiors,
intolerable to their equals, ungrateful to their benefactors, and
alike impudent in their demands and their refusals. Lofty in
promise, poor in execution; adulation and calumny, perfidy and
treason, are the familiar arts of their policy." Surely this dark
portrait is not colored by the pencil of Christian charity; ^17
yet the features, however harsh or ugly, express a lively
resemblance of the Roman of the twelfth century. ^18</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: From Leo IX. and Gregory VII. an authentic and
contemporary series of the lives of the popes by the cardinal of
Arragon, Pandulphus Pisanus, Bernard Guido, &amp;c., is inserted
in the Italian Historians of Muratori, (tom. iii. P. i. p.
277--685,) and has been always before my eyes.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The dates of years in the contents may
throughout his this chapter be understood as tacit references to
the Annals of Muratori, my ordinary and excellent guide. He uses,
and indeed quotes, with the freedom of a master, his great
collection of the Italian Historians, in xxviii. volumes; and as
that treasure is in my library, I have thought it an amusement,
if not a duty, to consult the originals.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: I cannot refrain from transcribing the
high-colored words of Pandulphus Pisanus, (p. 384.) Hoc audiens
inimicus pacis atque turbator jam fatus Centius Frajapane, more
draconis immanissimi sibilans, et ab imis pectoribus trahens
longa suspiria, accinctus retro gladio sine more cucurrit, valvas
ac fores confregit. Ecclesiam furibundus introiit, inde custode
remoto papam per gulam accepit, distraxit pugnis calcibusque
percussit, et tanquam brutum animal intra limen ecclesi&aelig;
acriter calcaribus cruentavit; et latro tantum dominum per
capillos et brachia, Jes&ucirc; bono interim dormiente, detraxit,
ad domum usque deduxit, inibi catenavit et inclusit.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Ego coram Deo et Ecclesi&acirc; dico, si unquam
possibile esset, mallem unum imperatorem quam tot dominos, (Vit.
Gelas. II. p. 398.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: Quid tam notum seculis quam protervia et
cervicositas Romanorum? Gens insueta paci, tumultui assueta, gens
immitis et intractabilis usque adhuc, subdi nescia, nisi cum non
valet resistere, (de Considerat. l. iv. c. 2, p. 441.) The saint
takes breath, and then begins again: Hi, invisi terr&aelig; et
clo, utrique injecere manus, &amp;c., (p. 443.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: As a Roman citizen, Petrarch takes leave to
observe, that Bernard, though a saint, was a man; that he might
be provoked by resentment, and possibly repent of his hasty
passion, &amp;c. (M&eacute;moires sur la Vie de P&eacute;trarque,
tom. i. p. 330.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Baronius, in his index to the xiith volume of
his Annals, has found a fair and easy excuse. He makes two heads,
of Romani <strong><em>Catholici</em></strong> and
<strong><em>Schismatici</em></strong>: to the former he applies
all the good, to the latter all the evil, that is told of the
city.]</p>

<p>The Jews had rejected the Christ when he appeared among them
in a plebeian character; and the Romans might plead their
ignorance of his vicar when he assumed the pomp and pride of a
temporal sovereign. In the busy age of the crusades, some sparks
of curiosity and reason were rekindled in the Western world: the
heresy of Bulgaria, the Paulician sect, was successfully
transplanted into the soil of Italy and France; the Gnostic
visions were mingled with the simplicity of the gospel; and the
enemies of the clergy reconciled their passions with their
conscience, the desire of freedom with the profession of piety.
^19 The trumpet of Roman liberty was first sounded by Arnold of
Brescia, ^20 whose promotion in the church was confined to the
lowest rank, and who wore the monastic habit rather as a garb of
poverty than as a uniform of obedience. His adversaries could not
deny the wit and eloquence which they severely felt; they confess
with reluctance the specious purity of his morals; and his errors
were recommended to the public by a mixture of important and
beneficial truths. In his theological studies, he had been the
disciple of the famous and unfortunate Abelard, ^21 who was
likewise involved in the suspicion of heresy: but the lover of
Eloisa was of a soft and flexible nature; and his ecclesiastic
judges were edified and disarmed by the humility of his
repentance. From this master, Arnold most probably imbibed some
metaphysical definitions of the Trinity, repugnant to the taste
of the times: his ideas of baptism and the eucharist are loosely
censured; but a political heresy was the source of his fame and
misfortunes. He presumed to quote the declaration of Christ, that
his kingdom is not of this world: he boldly maintained, that the
sword and the sceptre were intrusted to the civil magistrate;
that temporal honors and possessions were lawfully vested in
secular persons; that the abbots, the bishops, and the pope
himself, must renounce either their state or their salvation; and
that after the loss of their revenues, the voluntary tithes and
oblations of the faithful would suffice, not indeed for luxury
and avarice, but for a frugal life in the exercise of spiritual
labors. During a short time, the preacher was revered as a
patriot; and the discontent, or revolt, of Brescia against her
bishop, was the first fruits of his dangerous lessons. But the
favor of the people is less permanent than the resentment of the
priest; and after the heresy of Arnold had been condemned by
Innocent the Second, ^22 in the general council of the Lateran,
the magistrates themselves were urged by prejudice and fear to
execute the sentence of the church. Italy could no longer afford
a refuge; and the disciple of Abelard escaped beyond the Alps,
till he found a safe and hospitable shelter in Zurich, now the
first of the Swiss cantons. From a Roman station, ^23 a royal
villa, a chapter of noble virgins, Zurich had gradually increased
to a free and flourishing city; where the appeals of the Milanese
were sometimes tried by the Imperial commissaries. ^24 In an age
less ripe for reformation, the precursor of Zuinglius was heard
with applause: a brave and simple people imbibed, and long
retained, the color of his opinions; and his art, or merit,
seduced the bishop of Constance, and even the pope's legate, who
forgot, for his sake, the interest of their master and their
order. Their tardy zeal was quickened by the fierce exhortations
of St. Bernard; ^25 and the enemy of the church was driven by
persecution to the desperate measures of erecting his standard in
Rome itself, in the face of the successor of St. Peter.</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: The heresies of the xiith century may be found
in Mosheim, (Institut. Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. p. 419--427,) who
entertains a favorable opinion of Arnold of Brescia. In the vth
volume I have described the sect of the Paulicians, and followed
their migration from Armenia to Thrace and Bulgaria, Italy and
France.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: The original pictures of Arnold of Brescia are
drawn by Otho, bishop of Frisingen, (Chron. l. vii. c. 31, de
Gestis Frederici I. l. i. c. 27, l. ii. c. 21,) and in the iiid
book of the Ligurinus, a poem of Gunthur, who flourished A.D.
1200, in the monastery of Paris near Basil, (Fabric. Bibliot.
Latin. Med. et Infim&aelig; &AElig;tatis, tom. iii. p. 174, 175.)
The long passage that relates to Arnold is produced by Guilliman,
(de Rebus Helveticis, l. iii. c. 5, p. 108.) *</p>

<p>Note: * Compare Franke, Arnold von Brescia und seine Zeit.
Zurich, 1828. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: The wicked wit of Bayle was amused in composing,
with much levity and learning, the articles of Abelard, Foulkes,
Heloise, in his Dictionnaire Critique. The dispute of Abelard and
St. Bernard, of scholastic and positive divinity, is well
understood by Mosheim, (Institut. Hist. Eccl&eacute;s. p.
412--415.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22:</p>

<p>---- Damnatus ab illo</p>

<p>Pr&aelig;sule, qui numeros vetitum contingere nostros</p>

<p>Nomen ad <strong><em>innocu&acirc;</em></strong> ducit
laudabile vit&acirc;.</p>

<p>We may applaud the dexterity and correctness of Ligurinus, who
turns the unpoetical name of Innocent II. into a compliment.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: A Roman inscription of Statio Turicensis has
been found at Zurich, (D'Anville, Notice de l'ancienne Gaul, p.
642--644;) but it is without sufficient warrant, that the city
and canton have usurped, and even monopolized, the names of
Tigurum and Pagus Tigurinus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: Guilliman (de Rebus Helveticis, l. iii. c. 5, p.
106) recapitulates the donation (A.D. 833) of the emperor Lewis
the Pious to his daughter the abbess Hildegardis. Curtim nostram
Turegum in ducat&ucirc; Alamanni&aelig; in pago Durgaugensi, with
villages, woods, meadows, waters, slaves, churches, &amp;c.; a
noble gift. Charles the Bald gave the jus monet&aelig;, the city
was walled under Otho I., and the line of the bishop of
Frisingen,</p>

<p>Nobile Turegum multarum copia rerum,</p>

<p>is repeated with pleasure by the antiquaries of Zurich.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: Bernard, Epistol. cxcv. tom. i. p. 187--190.
Amidst his invectives he drops a precious acknowledgment, qui,
utinam quam san&aelig; esset doctrin&aelig; quam district&aelig;
est vit&aelig;. He owns that Arnold would be a valuable
acquisition for the church.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIX: State Of Rome From The Twelfth
Century. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>Yet the courage of Arnold was not devoid of discretion: he was
protected, and had perhaps been invited, by the nobles and
people; and in the service of freedom, his eloquence thundered
over the seven hills. Blending in the same discourse the texts of
Livy and St. Paul, uniting the motives of gospel, and of classic,
enthusiasm, he admonished the Romans, how strangely their
patience and the vices of the clergy had degenerated from the
primitive times of the church and the city. He exhorted them to
assert the inalienable rights of men and Christians; to restore
the laws and magistrates of the republic; to respect the
<strong><em>name</em></strong> of the emperor; but to confine
their shepherd to the spiritual government of his flock. ^26 Nor
could his spiritual government escape the censure and control of
the reformer; and the inferior clergy were taught by his lessons
to resist the cardinals, who had usurped a despotic command over
the twenty-eight regions or parishes of Rome. ^27 The revolution
was not accomplished without rapine and violence, the diffusion
of blood and the demolition of houses: the victorious faction was
enriched with the spoils of the clergy and the adverse nobles.
Arnold of Brescia enjoyed, or deplored, the effects of his
mission: his reign continued above ten years, while two popes,
Innocent the Second and Anastasius the Fourth, either trembled in
the Vatican, or wandered as exiles in the adjacent cities. They
were succeeded by a more vigorous and fortunate pontiff. Adrian
the Fourth, ^28 the only Englishman who has ascended the throne
of St. Peter; and whose merit emerged from the mean condition of
a monk, and almost a beggar, in the monastery of St. Albans. On
the first provocation, of a cardinal killed or wounded in the
streets, he cast an interdict on the guilty people; and from
Christmas to Easter, Rome was deprived of the real or imaginary
comforts of religious worship. The Romans had despised their
temporal prince: they submitted with grief and terror to the
censures of their spiritual father: their guilt was expiated by
penance, and the banishment of the seditious preacher was the
price of their absolution. But the revenge of Adrian was yet
unsatisfied, and the approaching coronation of Frederic
Barbarossa was fatal to the bold reformer, who had offended,
though not in an equal degree, the heads of the church and state.
In their interview at Viterbo, the pope represented to the
emperor the furious, ungovernable spirit of the Romans; the
insults, the injuries, the fears, to which his person and his
clergy were continually exposed; and the pernicious tendency of
the heresy of Arnold, which must subvert the principles of civil,
as well as ecclesiastical, subordination. Frederic was convinced
by these arguments, or tempted by the desire of the Imperial
crown: in the balance of ambition, the innocence or life of an
individual is of small account; and their common enemy was
sacrificed to a moment of political concord. After his retreat
from Rome, Arnold had been protected by the viscounts of
Campania, from whom he was extorted by the power of C&aelig;sar:
the pr&aelig;fect of the city pronounced his sentence: the martyr
of freedom was burned alive in the presence of a careless and
ungrateful people; and his ashes were cast into the Tyber, lest
the heretics should collect and worship the relics of their
master. ^29 The clergy triumphed in his death: with his ashes,
his sect was dispersed; his memory still lived in the minds of
the Romans. From his school they had probably derived a new
article of faith, that the metropolis of the Catholic church is
exempt from the penalties of excommunication and interdict. Their
bishops might argue, that the supreme jurisdiction, which they
exercised over kings and nations, more especially embraced the
city and diocese of the prince of the apostles. But they preached
to the winds, and the same principle that weakened the effect,
must temper the abuse, of the thunders of the Vatican.</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: He advised the Romans,</p>

<p>Consiliis armisque sua moderamina summa</p>

<p>Arbitrio tractare suo: nil juris in h&acirc;c re</p>

<p>Pontifici summo, modicum concedere regi</p>

<p>Suadebat populo. Sic l&aelig;s&acirc; stultus
utr&acirc;que</p>

<p>Majestate, reum gemin&aelig; se fecerat aul&aelig;.</p>

<p>Nor is the poetry of Gunther different from the prose of
Otho.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: See Baronius (A.D. 1148, No. 38, 39) from the
Vatican MSS. He loudly condemns Arnold (A.D. 1141, No. 3) as the
father of the political heretics, whose influence then hurt him
in France.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: The English reader may consult the Biographia
Britannica, Adrian IV.; but our own writers have added nothing to
the fame or merits of their countrymen.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: Besides the historian and poet already quoted,
the last adventures of Arnold are related by the biographer of
Adrian IV. (Muratori. Script. Rerum Ital. tom. iii. P. i. p. 441,
442.)]</p>

<p>The love of ancient freedom has encouraged a belief that as
early as the tenth century, in their first struggles against the
Saxon Othos, the commonwealth was vindicated and restored by the
senate and people of Rome; that two consuls were annually elected
among the nobles, and that ten or twelve plebeian magistrates
revived the name and office of the tribunes of the commons. ^30
But this venerable structure disappears before the light of
criticism. In the darkness of the middle ages, the appellations
of senators, of consuls, of the sons of consuls, may sometimes be
discovered. ^31 They were bestowed by the emperors, or assumed by
the most powerful citizens, to denote their rank, their honors,
^32 and perhaps the claim of a pure and patrician descent: but
they float on the surface, without a series or a substance, the
titles of men, not the orders of government; ^33 and it is only
from the year of Christ one thousand one hundred and forty-four
that the establishment of the senate is dated, as a glorious
&aelig;ra, in the acts of the city. A new constitution was
hastily framed by private ambition or popular enthusiasm; nor
could Rome, in the twelfth century, produce an antiquary to
explain, or a legislator to restore, the harmony and proportions
of the ancient model. The assembly of a free, of an armed,
people, will ever speak in loud and weighty acclamations. But the
regular distribution of the thirty-five tribes, the nice balance
of the wealth and numbers of the centuries, the debates of the
adverse orators, and the slow operations of votes and ballots,
could not easily be adapted by a blind multitude, ignorant of the
arts, and insensible of the benefits, of legal government. It was
proposed by Arnold to revive and discriminate the equestrian
order; but what could be the motive or measure of such
distinction? ^34 The pecuniary qualification of the knights must
have been reduced to the poverty of the times: those times no
longer required their civil functions of judges and farmers of
the revenue; and their primitive duty, their military service on
horseback, was more nobly supplied by feudal tenures and the
spirit of chivalry. The jurisprudence of the republic was useless
and unknown: the nations and families of Italy who lived under
the Roman and Barbaric laws were insensibly mingled in a common
mass; and some faint tradition, some imperfect fragments,
preserved the memory of the Code and Pandects of Justinian. With
their liberty the Romans might doubtless have restored the
appellation and office of consuls; had they not disdained a title
so promiscuously adopted in the Italian cities, that it has
finally settled on the humble station of the agents of commerce
in a foreign land. But the rights of the tribunes, the formidable
word that arrested the public counsels, suppose or must produce a
legitimate democracy. The old patricians were the subjects, the
modern barons the tyrants, of the state; nor would the enemies of
peace and order, who insulted the vicar of Christ, have long
respected the unarmed sanctity of a plebeian magistrate. ^35</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: Ducange (Gloss. Latinitatis Medi&aelig; et
Infim&aelig; &AElig;tatis, Decarchones, tom. ii. p. 726) gives me
a quotation from Blondus, (Decad. ii. l. ii.:) Duo consules ex
nobilitate quotannis fiebant, qui ad vetustum consulum exemplar
summ&aelig;rerum pr&aelig;essent. And in Sigonius (de Regno
Itali&aelig;, l. v. Opp. tom. ii. p. 400) I read of the consuls
and tribunes of the xth century. Both Blondus, and even Sigonius,
too freely copied the classic method of supplying from reason or
fancy the deficiency of records.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: In the panegyric of Berengarius (Muratori,
Script. Rer. Ital. tom. ii. P. i. p. 408) a Roman is mentioned as
consulis natus in the beginning of the xth century. Muratori
(Dissert. v.) discovers, in the years 952 and 956, Gratianus in
Dei nomine consul et dux, Georgius consul et dux; and in 1015,
Romanus, brother of Gregory VIII., proudly, but vaguely, styles
himself consul et dux et omnium Roma norum senator.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: As late as the xth century, the Greek emperors
conferred on the dukes of Venice, Naples, Amalphi, &amp;c., the
title of upatoV or consuls, (see Chron. Sagornini, passim;) and
the successors of Charlemagne would not abdicate any of their
prerogative. But in general the names of
<strong><em>consul</em></strong> and
<strong><em>senator</em></strong>, which may be found among the
French and Germans, signify no more than count and lord,
(<strong><em>Signeur</em></strong>, Ducange Glossar.) The monkish
writers are often ambitious of fine classic words.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: The most constitutional form is a diploma of
Otho III., (A. D 998,) consulibus senat&ucirc;s populique Romani;
but the act is probably spurious. At the coronation of Henry I.,
A.D. 1014, the historian Dithmar (apud Muratori, Dissert. xxiii.)
describes him, a senatoribus duodecim vallatum, quorum sex rasi
barb&acirc;, alii prolix&acirc;, mystice incedebant cum baculis.
The senate is mentioned in the panegyric of Berengarius, (p.
406.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: In ancient Rome the equestrian order was not
ranked with the senate and people as a third branch of the
republic till the consulship of Cicero, who assumes the merit of
the establishment, (Plin. Hist. Natur. xxxiii. 3. Beaufort,
R&eacute;publique Romaine, tom. i. p. 144--155.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: The republican plan of Arnold of Brescia is thus
stated by Gunther: --</p>

<p>Quin etiam titulos urbis renovare vetustos;</p>

<p>Nomine plebeio secernere nomen equestre,</p>

<p>Jura tribunorum, sanctum reparare senatum,</p>

<p>Et senio fessas mutasque reponere leges.</p>

<p>Lapsa ruinosis, et adhuc pendentia muris</p>

<p>Reddere prim&aelig;vo Capitolia prisca nitori.</p>

<p>But of these reformations, some were no more than ideas,
others no more than words.]</p>

<p>In the revolution of the twelfth century, which gave a new
existence and &aelig;ra to Rome, we may observe the real and
important events that marked or confirmed her political
independence. I. The Capitoline hill, one of her seven eminences,
^36 is about four hundred yards in length, and two hundred in
breadth. A flight of a hundred steps led to the summit of the
Tarpeian rock; and far steeper was the ascent before the
declivities had been smoothed and the precipices filled by the
ruins of fallen edifices. From the earliest ages, the Capitol had
been used as a temple in peace, a fortress in war: after the loss
of the city, it maintained a siege against the victorious Gauls,
and the sanctuary of the empire was occupied, assaulted, and
burnt, in the civil wars of Vitellius and Vespasian. ^37 The
temples of Jupiter and his kindred deities had crumbled into
dust; their place was supplied by monasteries and houses; and the
solid walls, the long and shelving porticos, were decayed or
ruined by the lapse of time. It was the first act of the Romans,
an act of freedom, to restore the strength, though not the
beauty, of the Capitol; to fortify the seat of their arms and
counsels; and as often as they ascended the hill, the coldest
minds must have glowed with the remembrance of their ancestors.
II. The first C&aelig;sars had been invested with the exclusive
coinage of the gold and silver; to the senate they abandoned the
baser metal of bronze or copper: ^38 the emblems and legends were
inscribed on a more ample field by the genius of flattery; and
the prince was relieved from the care of celebrating his own
virtues. The successors of Diocletian despised even the flattery
of the senate: their royal officers at Rome, and in the
provinces, assumed the sole direction of the mint; and the same
prerogative was inherited by the Gothic kings of Italy, and the
long series of the Greek, the French, and the German dynasties.
After an abdication of eight hundred years, the Roman senate
asserted this honorable and lucrative privilege; which was
tacitly renounced by the popes, from Paschal the Second to the
establishment of their residence beyond the Alps. Some of these
republican coins of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are
shown in the cabinets of the curious. On one of these, a gold
medal, Christ is depictured holding in his left hand a book with
this inscription: "The vow of the Roman senate and people: Rome
the capital of the world;" on the reverse, St. Peter delivering a
banner to a kneeling senator in his cap and gown, with the name
and arms of his family impressed on a shield. ^39 III. With the
empire, the pr&aelig;fect of the city had declined to a municipal
officer; yet he still exercised in the last appeal the civil and
criminal jurisdiction; and a drawn sword, which he received from
the successors of Otho, was the mode of his investiture and the
emblem of his functions. ^40 The dignity was confined to the
noble families of Rome: the choice of the people was ratified by
the pope; but a triple oath of fidelity must have often
embarrassed the pr&aelig;fect in the conflict of adverse duties.
^41 A servant, in whom they possessed but a third share, was
dismissed by the independent Romans: in his place they elected a
patrician; but this title, which Charlemagne had not disdained,
was too lofty for a citizen or a subject; and, after the first
fervor of rebellion, they consented without reluctance to the
restoration of the pr&aelig;fect. About fifty years after this
event, Innocent the Third, the most ambitious, or at least the
most fortunate, of the Pontiffs, delivered the Romans and himself
from this badge of foreign dominion: he invested the
pr&aelig;fect with a banner instead of a sword, and absolved him
from all dependence of oaths or service to the German emperors.
^42 In his place an ecclesiastic, a present or future cardinal,
was named by the pope to the civil government of Rome; but his
jurisdiction has been reduced to a narrow compass; and in the
days of freedom, the right or exercise was derived from the
senate and people. IV. After the revival of the senate, ^43 the
conscript fathers (if I may use the expression) were invested
with the legislative and executive power; but their views seldom
reached beyond the present day; and that day was most frequently
disturbed by violence and tumult. In its utmost plenitude, the
order or assembly consisted of fifty-six senators, ^44 the most
eminent of whom were distinguished by the title of counsellors:
they were nominated, perhaps annually, by the people; and a
previous choice of their electors, ten persons in each region, or
parish, might afford a basis for a free and permanent
constitution. The popes, who in this tempest submitted rather to
bend than to break, confirmed by treaty the establishment and
privileges of the senate, and expected from time, peace, and
religion, the restoration of their government. The motives of
public and private interest might sometimes draw from the Romans
an occasional and temporary sacrifice of their claims; and they
renewed their oath of allegiance to the successor of St. Peter
and Constantine, the lawful head of the church and the republic.
^45</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: After many disputes among the antiquaries of
Rome, it seems determined, that the summit of the Capitoline hill
next the river is strictly the Mons Tarpeius, the Arx; and that
on the other summit, the church and convent of Araceli, the
barefoot friars of St. Francis occupy the temple of Jupiter,
(Nardini, Roma Antica, l. v. c. 11--16. *)</p>

<p>Note: * The authority of Nardini is now vigorously impugned,
and the question of the Arx and the Temple of Jupiter revived,
with new arguments by Niebuhr and his accomplished follower, M.
Bunsen. Roms Beschreibung, vol. iii. p. 12, et seqq. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: Tacit. Hist. iii. 69, 70.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: This partition of the noble and baser metals
between the emperor and senate must, however, be adopted, not as
a positive fact, but as the probable opinion of the best
antiquaries, * (see the Science des Medailles of the P&egrave;re
Joubert, tom. ii. p. 208--211, in the improved and scarce edition
of the Baron de la Bastie.)</p>

<p>Note: * Dr. Cardwell (Lecture on Ancient Coins, p. 70, et
seq.) assigns convincing reasons in support of this opinion. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: In his xxviith dissertation on the Antiquities
of Italy, (tom. ii. p. 559--569,) Muratori exhibits a series of
the senatorian coins, which bore the obscure names of
<strong><em>Affortiati</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Infortiati</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Provisini</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Paparini</em></strong>. During this period, all the
popes, without excepting Boniface VIII, abstained from the right
of coining, which was resumed by his successor Benedict XI., and
regularly exercised in the court of Avignon.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: A German historian, Gerard of Reicherspeg (in
Baluz. Miscell. tom. v. p. 64, apud Schmidt, Hist. des Allemands,
tom. iii. p. 265) thus describes the constitution of Rome in the
xith century: Grandiora urbis et orbis negotia spectant ad
Romanum pontificem itemque ad Romanum Imperatorem, sive illius
vicarium urbis pr&aelig;fectum, qui de su&acirc; dignitate
respicit utrumque, videlicet dominum papam cui facit hominum, et
dominum imperatorem a quo accipit su&aelig; potestatis insigne,
scilicet gladium exertum.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: The words of a contemporary writer (Pandulph.
Pisan. in Vit. Paschal. II. p. 357, 358) describe the election
and oath of the pr&aelig;fect in 1118, inconsultis patribus . . .
. loca pr&aelig;fectoria . . . . Laudes pr&aelig;fectori&aelig; .
. . . comitiorum applausum . . . . juraturum populo in ambonem
sublevant . . . . confirmari eum in urbe pr&aelig;fectum
petunt.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: Urbis pr&aelig;fectum ad ligiam fidelitatem
recepit, et per mantum quod illi donavit de
pr&aelig;fectur&acirc; eum publice investivit, qui usque ad id
tempus juramento fidelitatis imperatori fuit obligatus et ab eo
pr&aelig;fectur&aelig; tenuit honorem, (Gesta Innocent. III. in
Muratori, tom. iii. P. i. p. 487.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: See Otho Frising. Chron. vii. 31, de Gest.
Frederic. I., l. i. c. 27.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: Cur countryman, Roger Hoveden, speaks of the
single senators, of the <strong><em>Capuzzi</em></strong> family,
&amp;c., quorum temporibus melius regebatur Roma quam nunc (A.D.
1194) est temporibus lvi. senatorum, (Ducange, Gloss. tom. vi. p.
191, Senatores.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: Muratori (dissert. xlii. tom. iii. p. 785--788)
has published an original treaty: Concordia inter D. nostrum
papam Clementem III. et senatores populi Romani super regalibus
et aliis dignitatibus urbis, &amp;c., anno 44&deg; senat&ucirc;s.
The senate speaks, and speaks with authority: Reddimus ad
pr&aelig;sens . . . . habebimus . . . . dabitis presbetria . . .
. jurabimus pacem et fidelitatem, &amp;c. A chartula de
Tenementis Tusculani, dated in the 47th year of the same
&aelig;ra, and confirmed decreto amplissimi ordinis
senat&ucirc;s, acclamatione P. R. publice Capitolio consistentis.
It is there we find the difference of senatores consiliarii and
simple senators, (Muratori, dissert. xlii. tom. iii. p.
787--789.)]</p>

<p>The union and vigor of a public council was dissolved in a
lawless city; and the Romans soon adopted a more strong and
simple mode of administration. They condensed the name and
authority of the senate in a single magistrate, or two
colleagues; and as they were changed at the end of a year, or of
six months, the greatness of the trust was compensated by the
shortness of the term. But in this transient reign, the senators
of Rome indulged their avarice and ambition: their justice was
perverted by the interest of their family and faction; and as
they punished only their enemies, they were obeyed only by their
adherents. Anarchy, no longer tempered by the pastoral care of
their bishop, admonished the Romans that they were incapable of
governing themselves; and they sought abroad those blessings
which they were hopeless of finding at home. In the same age, and
from the same motives, most of the Italian republics were
prompted to embrace a measure, which, however strange it may
seem, was adapted to their situation, and productive of the most
salutary effects. ^46 They chose, in some foreign but friendly
city, an impartial magistrate of noble birth and unblemished
character, a soldier and a statesman, recommended by the voice of
fame and his country, to whom they delegated for a time the
supreme administration of peace and war. The compact between the
governor and the governed was sealed with oaths and
subscriptions; and the duration of his power, the measure of his
stipend, the nature of their mutual obligations, were defined
with scrupulous precision. They swore to obey him as their lawful
superior: he pledged his faith to unite the indifference of a
stranger with the zeal of a patriot. At his choice, four or six
knights and civilians, his assessors in arms and justice,
attended the <strong><em>Podesta</em></strong>, ^47 who
maintained at his own expense a decent retinue of servants and
horses: his wife, his son, his brother, who might bias the
affections of the judge, were left behind: during the exercise of
his office he was not permitted to purchase land, to contract an
alliance, or even to accept an invitation in the house of a
citizen; nor could he honorably depart till he had satisfied the
complaints that might be urged against his government.</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Muratori (dissert. xlv. tom. iv. p. 64--92) has
fully explained this mode of government; and the
<strong><em>Occulus Pastoralis</em></strong>, which he has given
at the end, is a treatise or sermon on the duties of these
foreign magistrates.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: In the Latin writers, at least of the silver
age, the title of <strong><em>Potestas</em></strong> was
transferred from the office to the magistrate: --</p>

<p>Hujus qui trahitur pr&aelig;textam sumere mavis;</p>

<p>An Fidenarum Gabiorumque esse
<strong><em>Potestas</em></strong>.</p>

<p>Juvenal. Satir. x. 99.11]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIX: State Of Rome From The Twelfth
Century. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>It was thus, about the middle of the thirteenth century, that
the Romans called from Bologna the senator Brancaleone, ^48 whose
fame and merit have been rescued from oblivion by the pen of an
English historian. A just anxiety for his reputation, a clear
foresight of the difficulties of the task, had engaged him to
refuse the honor of their choice: the statutes of Rome were
suspended, and his office prolonged to the term of three years.
By the guilty and licentious he was accused as cruel; by the
clergy he was suspected as partial; but the friends of peace and
order applauded the firm and upright magistrate by whom those
blessings were restored. No criminals were so powerful as to
brave, so obscure as to elude, the justice of the senator. By his
sentence two nobles of the Annibaldi family were executed on a
gibbet; and he inexorably demolished, in the city and
neighborhood, one hundred and forty towers, the strong shelters
of rapine and mischief. The bishop, as a simple bishop, was
compelled to reside in his diocese; and the standard of
Brancaleone was displayed in the field with terror and effect.
His services were repaid by the ingratitude of a people unworthy
of the happiness which they enjoyed. By the public robbers, whom
he had provoked for their sake, the Romans were excited to depose
and imprison their benefactor; nor would his life have been
spared, if Bologna had not possessed a pledge for his safety.
Before his departure, the prudent senator had required the
exchange of thirty hostages of the noblest families of Rome: on
the news of his danger, and at the prayer of his wife, they were
more strictly guarded; and Bologna, in the cause of honor,
sustained the thunders of a papal interdict. This generous
resistance allowed the Romans to compare the present with the
past; and Brancaleone was conducted from the prison to the
Capitol amidst the acclamations of a repentant people. The
remainder of his government was firm and fortunate; and as soon
as envy was appeased by death, his head, enclosed in a precious
vase, was deposited on a lofty column of marble. ^49</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: See the life and death of Brancaleone, in the
Historia Major of Matthew Paris, p. 741, 757, 792, 797, 799, 810,
823, 833, 836, 840. The multitude of pilgrims and suitors
connected Rome and St. Albans, and the resentment of the English
clergy prompted them to rejoice when ever the popes were humbled
and oppressed.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Matthew Paris thus ends his account: Caput vero
ipsius Brancaleonis in vase pretioso super marmoream columnam
collocatum, in signum sui valoris et probitatis, quasi reliquias,
superstitiose nimis et pompose sustulerunt. Fuerat enim
superborum potentum et malefactorum urbis malleus et extirpator,
et populi protector et defensor veritatis et justiti&aelig;
imitator et amator, (p. 840.) A biographer of Innocent IV.
(Muratori, Script. tom. iii. P. i. p. 591, 592) draws a less
favorable portrait of this Ghibeline senator.]</p>

<p>The impotence of reason and virtue recommended in Italy a more
effectual choice: instead of a private citizen, to whom they
yielded a voluntary and precarious obedience, the Romans elected
for their senator some prince of independent power, who could
defend them from their enemies and themselves. Charles of Anjou
and Provence, the most ambitious and warlike monarch of the age,
accepted at the same time the kingdom of Naples from the pope,
and the office of senator from the Roman people. ^50 As he passed
through the city, in his road to victory, he received their oath
of allegiance, lodged in the Lateran palace, and smoothed in a
short visit the harsh features of his despotic character. Yet
even Charles was exposed to the inconstancy of the people, who
saluted with the same acclamations the passage of his rival, the
unfortunate Conradin; and a powerful avenger, who reigned in the
Capitol, alarmed the fears and jealousy of the popes. The
absolute term of his life was superseded by a renewal every third
year; and the enmity of Nicholas the Third obliged the Sicilian
king to abdicate the government of Rome. In his bull, a perpetual
law, the imperious pontiff asserts the truth, validity, and use
of the donation of Constantine, not less essential to the peace
of the city than to the independence of the church; establishes
the annual election of the senator; and formally disqualifies all
emperors, kings, princes, and persons of an eminent and
conspicuous rank. ^51 This prohibitory clause was repealed in his
own behalf by Martin the Fourth, who humbly solicited the
suffrage of the Romans. In the presence, and by the authority, of
the people, two electors conferred, not on the pope, but on the
noble and faithful Martin, the dignity of senator, and the
supreme administration of the republic, ^52 to hold during his
natural life, and to exercise at pleasure by himself or his
deputies. About fifty years afterwards, the same title was
granted to the emperor Lewis of Bavaria; and the liberty of Rome
was acknowledged by her two sovereigns, who accepted a municipal
office in the government of their own metropolis.</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The election of Charles of Anjou to the office
of perpetual senator of Rome is mentioned by the historians in
the viiith volume of the Collection of Muratori, by Nicholas de
Jamsilla, (p. 592,) the monk of Padua, (p. 724,) Sabas Malaspina,
(l. ii. c. 9, p. 308,) and Ricordano Malespini, (c. 177, p.
999.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: The high-sounding bull of Nicholas III., which
founds his temporal sovereignty on the donation of Constantine,
is still extant; and as it has been inserted by Boniface VIII. in
the <strong><em>Sexte</em></strong> of the Decretals, it must be
received by the Catholics, or at least by the Papists, as a
sacred and perpetual law.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: I am indebted to Fleury (Hist. Eccl&eacute;s.
tom. xviii. p. 306) for an extract of this Roman act, which he
has taken from the Ecclesiastical Annals of Odericus Raynaldus,
A.D. 1281, No. 14, 15.]</p>

<p>In the first moments of rebellion, when Arnold of Brescia had
inflamed their minds against the church, the Romans artfully
labored to conciliate the favor of the empire, and to recommend
their merit and services in the cause of C&aelig;sar. The style
of their ambassadors to Conrad the Third and Frederic the First
is a mixture of flattery and pride, the tradition and the
ignorance of their own history. ^53 After some complaint of his
silence and neglect, they exhort the former of these princes to
pass the Alps, and assume from their hands the Imperial crown.
"We beseech your majesty not to disdain the humility of your sons
and vassals, not to listen to the accusations of our common
enemies; who calumniate the senate as hostile to your throne, who
sow the seeds of discord, that they may reap the harvest of
destruction. The pope and the <strong><em>Sicilian</em></strong>
are united in an impious league to oppose
<strong><em>our</em></strong> liberty and
<strong><em>your</em></strong> coronation. With the blessing of
God, our zeal and courage has hitherto defeated their attempts.
Of their powerful and factious adherents, more especially the
Frangipani, we have taken by assault the houses and turrets: some
of these are occupied by our troops, and some are levelled with
the ground. The Milvian bridge, which they had broken, is
restored and fortified for your safe passage; and your army may
enter the city without being annoyed from the castle of St.
Angelo. All that we have done, and all that we design, is for
your honor and service, in the loyal hope, that you will speedily
appear in person, to vindicate those rights which have been
invaded by the clergy, to revive the dignity of the empire, and
to surpass the fame and glory of your predecessors. May you fix
your residence in Rome, the capital of the world; give laws to
Italy, and the Teutonic kingdom; and imitate the example of
Constantine and Justinian, ^54 who, by the vigor of the senate
and people, obtained the sceptre of the earth." ^55 But these
splendid and fallacious wishes were not cherished by Conrad the
Franconian, whose eyes were fixed on the Holy Land, and who died
without visiting Rome soon after his return from the Holy
Land.</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: These letters and speeches are preserved by Otho
bishop of Frisingen, (Fabric. Bibliot. Lat. Med. et Infim. tom.
v. p. 186, 187,) perhaps the noblest of historians: he was son of
Leopold marquis of Austria; his mother, Agnes, was daughter of
the emperor Henry IV., and he was half-brother and uncle to
Conrad III. and Frederic I. He has left, in seven books, a
Chronicle of the Times; in two, the Gesta Frederici I., the last
of which is inserted in the vith volume of Muratori's
historians.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: We desire (said the ignorant Romans) to restore
the empire in um statum, quo fuit tempore Constantini et
Justiniani, qui totum orbem vigore senat&ucirc;s et populi Romani
suis tenuere manibus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: Otho Frising. de Gestis Frederici I. l. i. c.
28, p. 662--664.]</p>

<p>His nephew and successor, Frederic Barbarossa, was more
ambitious of the Imperial crown; nor had any of the successors of
Otho acquired such absolute sway over the kingdom of Italy.
Surrounded by his ecclesiastical and secular princes, he gave
audience in his camp at Sutri to the ambassadors of Rome, who
thus addressed him in a free and florid oration: "Incline your
ear to the queen of cities; approach with a peaceful and friendly
mind the precincts of Rome, which has cast away the yoke of the
clergy, and is impatient to crown her legitimate emperor. Under
your auspicious influence, may the primitive times be restored.
Assert the prerogatives of the eternal city, and reduce under her
monarchy the insolence of the world. You are not ignorant, that,
in former ages, by the wisdom of the senate, by the valor and
discipline of the equestrian order, she extended her victorious
arms to the East and West, beyond the Alps, and over the islands
of the ocean. By our sins, in the absence of our princes, the
noble institution of the senate has sunk in oblivion; and with
our prudence, our strength has likewise decreased. We have
revived the senate, and the equestrian order: the counsels of the
one, the arms of the other, will be devoted to your person and
the service of the empire. Do you not hear the language of the
Roman matron? You were a guest, I have adopted you as a citizen;
a Transalpine stranger, I have elected you for my sovereign; ^56
and given you myself, and all that is mine. Your first and most
sacred duty is to swear and subscribe, that you will shed your
blood for the republic; that you will maintain in peace and
justice the laws of the city and the charters of your
predecessors; and that you will reward with five thousand pounds
of silver the faithful senators who shall proclaim your titles in
the Capitol. With the name, assume the character, of Augustus."
The flowers of Latin rhetoric were not yet exhausted; but
Frederic, impatient of their vanity, interrupted the orators in
the high tone of royalty and conquest. "Famous indeed have been
the fortitude and wisdom of the ancient Romans; but your speech
is not seasoned with wisdom, and I could wish that fortitude were
conspicuous in your actions. Like all sublunary things, Rome has
felt the vicissitudes of time and fortune. Your noblest families
were translated to the East, to the royal city of Constantine;
and the remains of your strength and freedom have long since been
exhausted by the Greeks and Franks. Are you desirous of beholding
the ancient glory of Rome, the gravity of the senate, the spirit
of the knights, the discipline of the camp, the valor of the
legions? you will find them in the German republic. It is not
empire, naked and alone, the ornaments and virtues of empire have
likewise migrated beyond the Alps to a more deserving people: ^57
they will be employed in your defence, but they claim your
obedience. You pretend that myself or my predecessors have been
invited by the Romans: you mistake the word; they were not
invited, they were implored. From its foreign and domestic
tyrants, the city was rescued by Charlemagne and Otho, whose
ashes repose in our country; and their dominion was the price of
your deliverance. Under that dominion your ancestors lived and
died. I claim by the right of inheritance and possession, and who
shall dare to extort you from my hands? Is the hand of the Franks
^58 and Germans enfeebled by age? Am I vanquished? Am I a
captive? Am I not encompassed with the banners of a potent and
invincible army? You impose conditions on your master; you
require oaths: if the conditions are just, an oath is
superfluous; if unjust, it is criminal. Can you doubt my equity?
It is extended to the meanest of my subjects. Will not my sword
be unsheathed in the defence of the Capitol? By that sword the
northern kingdom of Denmark has been restored to the Roman
empire. You prescribe the measure and the objects of my bounty,
which flows in a copious but a voluntary stream. All will be
given to patient merit; all will be denied to rude importunity."
^59 Neither the emperor nor the senate could maintain these lofty
pretensions of dominion and liberty. United with the pope, and
suspicious of the Romans, Frederic continued his march to the
Vatican; his coronation was disturbed by a sally from the
Capitol; and if the numbers and valor of the Germans prevailed in
the bloody conflict, he could not safely encamp in the presence
of a city of which he styled himself the sovereign. About twelve
years afterwards, he besieged Rome, to seat an antipope in the
chair of St. Peter; and twelve Pisan galleys were introduced into
the Tyber: but the senate and people were saved by the arts of
negotiation and the progress of disease; nor did Frederic or his
successors reiterate the hostile attempt. Their laborious reigns
were exercised by the popes, the crusades, and the independence
of Lombardy and Germany: they courted the alliance of the Romans;
and Frederic the Second offered in the Capitol the great
standard, the <strong><em>Caroccio</em></strong> of Milan. ^60
After the extinction of the house of Swabia, they were banished
beyond the Alps: and their last coronations betrayed the
impotence and poverty of the Teutonic C&aelig;sars. ^61</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: Hospes eras, civem feci. Advena fuisti ex
Transalpinis partibus principem constitui.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: Non cessit nobis nudum imperium, virtute sua
amictum venit, ornamenta sua secum traxit. Penes nos sunt
consules tui, &amp;c. Cicero or Livy would not have rejected
these images, the eloquence of a Barbarian born and educated in
the Hercynian forest.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: Otho of Frisingen, who surely understood the
language of the court and diet of Germany, speaks of the Franks
in the xiith century as the reigning nation, (Proceres Franci,
equites Franci, manus Francorum:) he adds, however, the epithet
of <strong><em>Teutonici</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Otho Frising. de Gestis Frederici I., l. ii. c.
22, p. 720--733. These original and authentic acts I have
translated and abridged with freedom, yet with fidelity.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: From the Chronicles of Ricobaldo and Francis
Pipin, Muratori (dissert. xxvi. tom. ii. p. 492) has translated
this curious fact with the doggerel verses that accompanied the
gift: --</p>

<p>Ave decus orbis, ave! victus tibi destinor, ave!</p>

<p>Currus ab Augusto Frederico C&aelig;sare justo.</p>

<p>V&aelig; Mediolanum! jam sentis spernere vanum</p>

<p>Imperii vires, proprias tibi tollere vires.</p>

<p>Ergo triumphorum urbs potes memor esse priorum</p>

<p>Quos tibi mittebant reges qui bella gerebant.</p>

<p>Ne si dee tacere (I now use the Italian Dissertations, tom. i.
p. 444) che nell' anno 1727, una copia desso Caroccio in marmo
dianzi ignoto si scopri, nel campidoglio, presso alle carcere di
quel luogo, dove Sisto V. l'avea falto rinchiudere. Stava esso
posto sopra quatro colonne di marmo fino colla sequente
inscrizione, &amp;c.; to the same purpose as the old
inscription.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: The decline of the Imperial arms and authority
in Italy is related with impartial learning in the Annals of
Muratori, (tom. x. xi. xii.;) and the reader may compare his
narrative with the Histoires des Allemands (tom. iii. iv.) by
Schmidt, who has deserved the esteem of his countrymen.]</p>

<p>Under the reign of Adrian, when the empire extended from the
Euphrates to the ocean, from Mount Atlas to the Grampian hills, a
fanciful historian ^62 amused the Romans with the picture of
their ancient wars. "There was a time," says Florus, "when Tibur
and Pr&aelig;neste, our summer retreats, were the objects of
hostile vows in the Capitol, when we dreaded the shades of the
Arician groves, when we could triumph without a blush over the
nameless villages of the Sabines and Latins, and even Corioli
could afford a title not unworthy of a victorious general." The
pride of his contemporaries was gratified by the contrast of the
past and the present: they would have been humbled by the
prospect of futurity; by the prediction, that after a thousand
years, Rome, despoiled of empire, and contracted to her
prim&aelig;val limits, would renew the same hostilities, on the
same ground which was then decorated with her villas and gardens.
The adjacent territory on either side of the Tyber was always
claimed, and sometimes possessed, as the patrimony of St. Peter;
but the barons assumed a lawless independence, and the cities too
faithfully copied the revolt and discord of the metropolis. In
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Romans incessantly
labored to reduce or destroy the contumacious vassals of the
church and senate; and if their headstrong and selfish ambition
was moderated by the pope, he often encouraged their zeal by the
alliance of his spiritual arms. Their warfare was that of the
first consuls and dictators, who were taken from the plough. The
assembled in arms at the foot of the Capitol; sallied from the
gates, plundered or burnt the harvests of their neighbors,
engaged in tumultuary conflict, and returned home after an
expedition of fifteen or twenty days. Their sieges were tedious
and unskilful: in the use of victory, they indulged the meaner
passions of jealousy and revenge; and instead of adopting the
valor, they trampled on the misfortunes, of their adversaries.
The captives, in their shirts, with a rope round their necks,
solicited their pardon: the fortifications, and even the
buildings, of the rival cities, were demolished, and the
inhabitants were scattered in the adjacent villages. It was thus
that the seats of the cardinal bishops, Porto, Ostia, Albanum,
Tusculum, Pr&aelig;neste, and Tibur or Tivoli, were successively
overthrown by the ferocious hostility of the Romans. ^63 Of
these, ^64 Porto and Ostia, the two keys of the Tyber, are still
vacant and desolate: the marshy and unwholesome banks are peopled
with herds of buffaloes, and the river is lost to every purpose
of navigation and trade. The hills, which afford a shady
retirement from the autumnal heats, have again smiled with the
blessings of peace; Frescati has arisen near the ruins of
Tusculum; Tibur or Tivoli has resumed the honors of a city, ^65
and the meaner towns of Albano and Palestrina are decorated with
the villas of the cardinals and princes of Rome. In the work of
destruction, the ambition of the Romans was often checked and
repulsed by the neighboring cities and their allies: in the first
siege of Tibur, they were driven from their camp; and the battles
of Tusculum ^66 and Viterbo ^67 might be compared in their
relative state to the memorable fields of Thrasymene and
Cann&aelig;. In the first of these petty wars, thirty thousand
Romans were overthrown by a thousand German horse, whom Frederic
Barbarossa had detached to the relief of Tusculum: and if we
number the slain at three, the prisoners at two, thousand, we
shall embrace the most authentic and moderate account.
Sixty-eight years afterwards they marched against Viterbo in the
ecclesiastical state with the whole force of the city; by a rare
coalition the Teutonic eagle was blended, in the adverse banners,
with the keys of St. Peter; and the pope's auxiliaries were
commanded by a count of Thoulouse and a bishop of Winchester. The
Romans were discomfited with shame and slaughter: but the English
prelate must have indulged the vanity of a pilgrim, if he
multiplied their numbers to one hundred, and their loss in the
field to thirty, thousand men. Had the policy of the senate and
the discipline of the legions been restored with the Capitol, the
divided condition of Italy would have offered the fairest
opportunity of a second conquest. But in arms, the modern Romans
were not <strong><em>above</em></strong>, and in arts, they were
far <strong><em>below</em></strong>, the common level of the
neighboring republics. Nor was their warlike spirit of any long
continuance; after some irregular sallies, they subsided in the
national apathy, in the neglect of military institutions, and in
the disgraceful and dangerous use of foreign mercenaries.</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Tibur nunc suburbanum, et &aelig;stiv&aelig;
Pr&aelig;neste delici&aelig;, nuncupatis in Capitolio votis
petebantur. The whole passage of Florus (l. i. c. 11) may be read
with pleasure, and has deserved the praise of a man of genius,
(uvres de Montesquieu, tom. iii. p. 634, 635, quarto
edition.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: Ne a feritate Romanorum, sicut fuerant
Hostienses, Portuenses, Tusculanenses, Albanenses, Labicenses, et
nuper Tiburtini destruerentur, (Matthew Paris, p. 757.) These
events are marked in the Annals and Index (the xviiith volume) of
Muratori.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: For the state or ruin of these suburban cities,
the banks of the Tyber, &amp;c., see the lively picture of the P.
Labat, (Voyage en Espagne et en Itali&aelig;,) who had long
resided in the neighborhood of Rome, and the more accurate
description of which P. Eschinard (Roma, 1750, in octavo) has
added to the topographical map of Cingolani.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: Labat (tom. iii. p. 233) mentions a recent
decree of the Roman government, which has severely mortified the
pride and poverty of Tivoli: in civitate Tiburtin&acirc; non
vivitur civiliter.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: I depart from my usual method, of quoting only
by the date the Annals of Muratori, in consideration of the
critical balance in which he has weighed nine contemporary
writers who mention the battle of Tusculum, (tom. x. p.
42--44.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: Matthew Paris, p. 345. This bishop of Winchester
was Peter de Rupibus, who occupied the see thirty-two years,
(A.D. 1206--1238.) and is described, by the English historian, as
a soldier and a statesman. (p. 178, 399.)]</p>

<p>Ambition is a weed of quick and early vegetation in the
vineyard of Christ. Under the first Christian princes, the chair
of St. Peter was disputed by the votes, the venality, the
violence, of a popular election: the sanctuaries of Rome were
polluted with blood; and, from the third to the twelfth century,
the church was distracted by the mischief of frequent schisms. As
long as the final appeal was determined by the civil magistrate,
these mischiefs were transient and local: the merits were tried
by equity or favor; nor could the unsuccessful competitor long
disturb the triumph of his rival. But after the emperors had been
divested of their prerogatives, after a maxim had been
established that the vicar of Christ is amenable to no earthly
tribunal, each vacancy of the holy see might involve Christendom
in controversy and war. The claims of the cardinals and inferior
clergy, of the nobles and people, were vague and litigious: the
freedom of choice was overruled by the tumults of a city that no
longer owned or obeyed a superior. On the decease of a pope, two
factions proceeded in different churches to a double election:
the number and weight of votes, the priority of time, the merit
of the candidates, might balance each other: the most respectable
of the clergy were divided; and the distant princes, who bowed
before the spiritual throne, could not distinguish the spurious,
from the legitimate, idol. The emperors were often the authors of
the schism, from the political motive of opposing a friendly to a
hostile pontiff; and each of the competitors was reduced to
suffer the insults of his enemies, who were not awed by
conscience, and to purchase the support of his adherents, who
were instigated by avarice or ambition a peaceful and perpetual
succession was ascertained by Alexander the Third, ^68 who
finally abolished the tumultuary votes of the clergy and people,
and defined the right of election in the sole college of
cardinals. ^69 The three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons,
were assimilated to each other by this important privilege; the
parochial clergy of Rome obtained the first rank in the
hierarchy: they were indifferently chosen among the nations of
Christendom; and the possession of the richest benefices, of the
most important bishoprics, was not incompatible with their title
and office. The senators of the Catholic church, the coadjutors
and legates of the supreme pontiff, were robed in purple, the
symbol of martyrdom or royalty; they claimed a proud equality
with kings; and their dignity was enhanced by the smallness of
their number, which, till the reign of Leo the Tenth, seldom
exceeded twenty or twenty-five persons. By this wise regulation,
all doubt and scandal were removed, and the root of schism was so
effectually destroyed, that in a period of six hundred years a
double choice has only once divided the unity of the sacred
college. But as the concurrence of two thirds of the votes had
been made necessary, the election was often delayed by the
private interest and passions of the cardinals; and while they
prolonged their independent reign, the Christian world was left
destitute of a head. A vacancy of almost three years had preceded
the elevation of George the Tenth, who resolved to prevent the
future abuse; and his bull, after some opposition, has been
consecrated in the code of the canon law. ^70 Nine days are
allowed for the obsequies of the deceased pope, and the arrival
of the absent cardinals; on the tenth, they are imprisoned, each
with one domestic, in a common apartment or
<strong><em>conclave</em></strong>, without any separation of
walls or curtains: a small window is reserved for the
introduction of necessaries; but the door is locked on both sides
and guarded by the magistrates of the city, to seclude them from
all correspondence with the world. If the election be not
consummated in three days, the luxury of their table is
contracted to a single dish at dinner and supper; and after the
eighth day, they are reduced to a scanty allowance of bread,
water, and wine. During the vacancy of the holy see, the
cardinals are prohibited from touching the revenues, or assuming,
unless in some rare emergency, the government of the church: all
agreements and promises among the electors are formally annulled;
and their integrity is fortified by their solemn oath and the
prayers of the Catholics. Some articles of inconvenient or
superfluous rigor have been gradually relaxed, but the principle
of confinement is vigorous and entire: they are still urged, by
the personal motives of health and freedom, to accelerate the
moment of their deliverance; and the improvement of ballot or
secret votes has wrapped the struggles of the conclave ^71 in the
silky veil of charity and politeness. ^72 By these institutions
the Romans were excluded from the election of their prince and
bishop; and in the fever of wild and precarious liberty, they
seemed insensible of the loss of this inestimable privilege. The
emperor Lewis of Bavaria revived the example of the great Otho.
After some negotiation with the magistrates, the Roman people
were assembled ^73 in the square before St. Peter's: the pope of
Avignon, John the Twenty-second, was deposed: the choice of his
successor was ratified by their consent and applause. They freely
voted for a new law, that their bishop should never be absent
more than three months in the year, and two days' journey from
the city; and that if he neglected to return on the third
summons, the public servant should be degraded and dismissed. ^74
But Lewis forgot his own debility and the prejudices of the
times: beyond the precincts of a German camp, his useless phantom
was rejected; the Romans despised their own workmanship; the
antipope implored the mercy of his lawful sovereign; ^75 and the
exclusive right of the cardinals was more firmly established by
this unseasonable attack.</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: See Mosheim, Institut. Histor. Ecclesiast. p.
401, 403. Alexander himself had nearly been the victim of a
contested election; and the doubtful merits of Innocent had only
preponderated by the weight of genius and learning which St.
Bernard cast into the scale, (see his life and writings.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: The origin, titles, importance, dress,
precedency, &amp;c., of the Roman cardinals, are very ably
discussed by Thomassin, (Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. i. p.
1262--1287;) but their purple is now much faded. The sacred
college was raised to the definite number of seventy-two, to
represent, under his vicar, the disciples of Christ.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: See the bull of Gregory X. approbante sacro
concilio, in the <strong><em>Sexts</em></strong> of the Canon
Law, (l. i. tit. 6, c. 3,) a supplement to the Decretals, which
Boniface VIII. promulgated at Rome in 1298, and addressed in all
the universities of Europe.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: The genius of Cardinal de Retz had a right to
paint a conclave, (of 1665,) in which he was a spectator and an
actor, (M&eacute;moires, tom. iv. p. 15--57;) but I am at a loss
to appreciate the knowledge or authority of an anonymous Italian,
whose history (Conclavi de' Pontifici Romani, in 4to. 1667) has
been continued since the reign of Alexander VII. The accidental
form of the work furnishes a lesson, though not an antidote, to
ambition. From a labyrinth of intrigues, we emerge to the
adoration of the successful candidate; but the next page opens
with his funeral.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: The expressions of Cardinal de Retz are positive
and picturesque: On y vecut toujours ensemble avec le m&ecirc;me
respect, et la m&ecirc;me civilit&eacute; que l'on observe dans
le cabinet des rois, avec la m&ecirc;me politesse qu'on avoit
dans la cour de Henri III., avec la m&ecirc;me familiarit&eacute;
que l'on voit dans les colleges; avec la m&ecirc;me modestie, qui
se remarque dans les noviciats; et avec la m&ecirc;me
charit&eacute;, du moins en apparence, qui pourroit &egrave;tre
entre des fr&egrave;res parfaitement unis.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: Richiesti per bando (says John Villani) sanatori
di Roma, e 52 del popolo, et capitani de' 25, e consoli,
(<strong><em>consoli?</em></strong>) et 13 buone huomini, uno per
rione. Our knowledge is too imperfect to pronounce how much of
this constitution was temporary, and how much ordinary and
permanent. Yet it is faintly illustrated by the ancient statutes
of Rome.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: Villani (l. x. c. 68--71, in Muratori, Script.
tom. xiii. p. 641--645) relates this law, and the whole
transaction, with much less abhorrence than the prudent Muratori.
Any one conversant with the darker ages must have observed how
much the sense (I mean the nonsense) of superstition is
fluctuating and inconsistent.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: In the first volume of the Popes of Avignon, see
the second original Life of John XXII. p. 142--145, the
confession of the antipope p. 145--152, and the laborious notes
of Baluze, p. 714, 715.]</p>

<p>Had the election been always held in the Vatican, the rights
of the senate and people would not have been violated with
impunity. But the Romans forgot, and were forgotten. in the
absence of the successors of Gregory the Seventh, who did not
keep as a divine precept their ordinary residence in the city and
diocese. The care of that diocese was less important than the
government of the universal church; nor could the popes delight
in a city in which their authority was always opposed, and their
person was often endangered. From the persecution of the
emperors, and the wars of Italy, they escaped beyond the Alps
into the hospitable bosom of France; from the tumults of Rome
they prudently withdrew to live and die in the more tranquil
stations of Anagni, Perugia, Viterbo, and the adjacent cities.
When the flock was offended or impoverished by the absence of the
shepherd, they were recalled by a stern admonition, that St.
Peter had fixed his chair, not in an obscure village, but in the
capital of the world; by a ferocious menace, that the Romans
would march in arms to destroy the place and people that should
dare to afford them a retreat. They returned with timorous
obedience; and were saluted with the account of a heavy debt, of
all the losses which their desertion had occasioned, the hire of
lodgings, the sale of provisions, and the various expenses of
servants and strangers who attended the court. ^76 After a short
interval of peace, and perhaps of authority, they were again
banished by new tumults, and again summoned by the imperious or
respectful invitation of the senate. In these occasional
retreats, the exiles and fugitives of the Vatican were seldom
long, or far, distant from the metropolis; but in the beginning
of the fourteenth century, the apostolic throne was transported,
as it might seem forever, from the Tyber to the Rh&ocirc;ne; and
the cause of the transmigration may be deduced from the furious
contest between Boniface the Eighth and the king of France. ^77
The spiritual arms of excommunication and interdict were repulsed
by the union of the three estates, and the privileges of the
Gallican church; but the pope was not prepared against the carnal
weapons which Philip the Fair had courage to employ. As the pope
resided at Anagni, without the suspicion of danger, his palace
and person were assaulted by three hundred horse, who had been
secretly levied by William of Nogaret, a French minister, and
Sciarra Colonna, of a noble but hostile family of Rome. The
cardinals fled; the inhabitants of Anagni were seduced from their
allegiance and gratitude; but the dauntless Boniface, unarmed and
alone, seated himself in his chair, and awaited, like the
conscript fathers of old, the swords of the Gauls. Nogaret, a
foreign adversary, was content to execute the orders of his
master: by the domestic enmity of Colonna, he was insulted with
words and blows; and during a confinement of three days his life
was threatened by the hardships which they inflicted on the
obstinacy which they provoked. Their strange delay gave time and
courage to the adherents of the church, who rescued him from
sacrilegious violence; but his imperious soul was wounded in the
vital part; and Boniface expired at Rome in a frenzy of rage and
revenge. His memory is stained with the glaring vices of avarice
and pride; nor has the courage of a martyr promoted this
ecclesiastical champion to the honors of a saint; a magnanimous
sinner, (say the chronicles of the times,) who entered like a
fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. He was succeeded
by Benedict the Eleventh, the mildest of mankind. Yet he
excommunicated the impious emissaries of Philip, and devoted the
city and people of Anagni by a tremendous curse, whose effects
are still visible to the eyes of superstition. ^78</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: Romani autem non valentes nec volentes ultra
suam celare cupiditatem gravissimam, contra papam movere cperunt
questionem, exigentes ab eo urgentissime omnia qu&aelig;
subierant per ejus absentiam damna et jacturas, videlicet in
hispitiis locandis, in mercimoniis, in usuris, in redditibus, in
provisionibus, et in aliis modis innumerabilibus. Qu&ograve;d cum
audisset papa, pr&aelig;cordialiter ingemuit, et se comperiens
<strong><em>muscipulatum</em></strong>, &amp;c., Matt. Paris, p.
757. For the ordinary history of the popes, their life and death,
their residence and absence, it is enough to refer to the
ecclesiastical annalists, Spondanus and Fleury.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: Besides the general historians of the church of
Italy and of France, we possess a valuable treatise composed by a
learned friend of Thuanus, which his last and best editors have
published in the appendix (Histoire particuli&egrave;re du grand
Diff&eacute;rend entre Boniface VIII et Philippe le Bel, par
Pierre du Puis, tom. vii. P. xi. p. 61--82.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: It is difficult to know whether Labat (tom. iv.
p. 53--57) be in jest or in earnest, when he supposes that Anagni
still feels the weight of this curse, and that the cornfields, or
vineyards, or olive-trees, are annually blasted by Nature, the
obsequious handmaid of the popes.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXIX: State Of Rome From The Twelfth
Century. -- Part IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>After his decease, the tedious and equal suspense of the
conclave was fixed by the dexterity of the French faction. A
specious offer was made and accepted, that, in the term of forty
days, they would elect one of the three candidates who should be
named by their opponents. The archbishop of Bourdeaux, a furious
enemy of his king and country, was the first on the list; but his
ambition was known; and his conscience obeyed the calls of
fortune and the commands of a benefactor, who had been informed
by a swift messenger that the choice of a pope was now in his
hands. The terms were regulated in a private interview; and with
such speed and secrecy was the business transacted, that the
unanimous conclave applauded the elevation of Clement the Fifth.
^79 The cardinals of both parties were soon astonished by a
summons to attend him beyond the Alps; from whence, as they soon
discovered, they must never hope to return. He was engaged, by
promise and affection, to prefer the residence of France; and,
after dragging his court through Poitou and Gascony, and
devouring, by his expense, the cities and convents on the road,
he finally reposed at Avignon, ^80 which flourished above seventy
years ^81 the seat of the Roman pontiff and the metropolis of
Christendom. By land, by sea, by the Rh&ocirc;ne, the position of
Avignon was on all sides accessible; the southern provinces of
France do not yield to Italy itself; new palaces arose for the
accommodation of the pope and cardinals; and the arts of luxury
were soon attracted by the treasures of the church. They were
already possessed of the adjacent territory, the Venaissin
county, ^82 a populous and fertile spot; and the sovereignty of
Avignon was afterwards purchased from the youth and distress of
Jane, the first queen of Naples and countess of Provence, for the
inadequate price of fourscore thousand florins. ^83 Under the
shadow of a French monarchy, amidst an obedient people, the popes
enjoyed an honorable and tranquil state, to which they long had
been strangers: but Italy deplored their absence; and Rome, in
solitude and poverty, might repent of the ungovernable freedom
which had driven from the Vatican the successor of St. Peter. Her
repentance was tardy and fruitless: after the death of the old
members, the sacred college was filled with French cardinals, ^84
who beheld Rome and Italy with abhorrence and contempt, and
perpetuated a series of national, and even provincial, popes,
attached by the most indissoluble ties to their native
country.</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: See, in the Chronicle of Giovanni Villani, (l.
viii. c. 63, 64, 80, in Muratori, tom. xiii.,) the imprisonment
of Boniface VIII., and the election of Clement V., the last of
which, like most anecdotes, is embarrassed with some
difficulties.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: The original lives of the eight popes of
Avignon, Clement V., John XXII., Benedict XI., Clement VI.,
Innocent VI., Urban V., Gregory XI., and Clement VII., are
published by Stephen Baluze, (Vit&aelig; Paparum Avenionensium;
Paris, 1693, 2 vols. in 4to.,) with copious and elaborate notes,
and a second volume of acts and documents. With the true zeal of
an editor and a patriot, he devoutly justifies or excuses the
characters of his countrymen.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: The exile of Avignon is compared by the Italians
with Babylon, and the Babylonish captivity. Such furious
metaphors, more suitable to the ardor of Petrarch than to the
judgment of Muratori, are gravely refuted in Baluze's preface.
The abb&eacute; de Sade is distracted between the love of
Petrarch and of his country. Yet he modestly pleads, that many of
the local inconveniences of Avignon are now removed; and many of
the vices against which the poet declaims, had been imported with
the Roman court by the strangers of Italy, (tom. i. p.
23--28.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: The comtat Venaissin was ceded to the popes in
1273 by Philip III. king of France, after he had inherited the
dominions of the count of Thoulouse. Forty years before, the
heresy of Count Raymond had given them a pretence of seizure, and
they derived some obscure claim from the xith century to some
lands citra Rhodanum, (Valesii Notitia Galliarum, p. 495, 610.
Longuerue, Description de la France, tom. i. p. 376--381.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: If a possession of four centuries were not
itself a title, such objections might annul the bargain; but the
purchase money must be refunded, for indeed it was paid.
Civitatem Avenionem emit . . . . per ejusmodi venditionem
pecuni&acirc; redundates, &amp;c., (ii<sup>da</sup> Vita Clement.
VI. in Baluz. tom. i. p. 272. Muratori, Script. tom. iii. P. ii.
p. 565.) The only temptation for Jane and her second husband was
ready money, and without it they could not have returned to the
throne of Naples.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: Clement V immediately promoted ten cardinals,
nine French and one English, (Vita iv<sup>ta</sup>, p. 63, et
Baluz. p. 625, &amp;c.) In 1331, the pope refused two candidates
recommended by the king of France, quod xx. Cardinales, de quibus
xvii. de regno Franci&aelig; originem traxisse noscuntur in
memorato collegio existant, (Thomassin, Discipline de l'Eglise,
tom. i. p. 1281.)]</p>

<p>The progress of industry had produced and enriched the Italian
republics: the &aelig;ra of their liberty is the most flourishing
period of population and agriculture, of manufactures and
commerce; and their mechanic labors were gradually refined into
the arts of elegance and genius. But the position of Rome was
less favorable, the territory less fruitful: the character of the
inhabitants was debased by indolence and elated by pride; and
they fondly conceived that the tribute of subjects must forever
nourish the metropolis of the church and empire. This prejudice
was encouraged in some degree by the resort of pilgrims to the
shrines of the apostles; and the last legacy of the popes, the
institution of the holy year, ^85 was not less beneficial to the
people than to the clergy. Since the loss of Palestine, the gift
of plenary indulgences, which had been applied to the crusades,
remained without an object; and the most valuable treasure of the
church was sequestered above eight years from public circulation.
A new channel was opened by the diligence of Boniface the Eighth,
who reconciled the vices of ambition and avarice; and the pope
had sufficient learning to recollect and revive the secular games
which were celebrated in Rome at the conclusion of every century.
To sound without danger the depth of popular credulity, a sermon
was seasonably pronounced, a report was artfully scattered, some
aged witnesses were produced; and on the first of January of the
year thirteen hundred, the church of St. Peter was crowded with
the faithful, who demanded the customary indulgence of the holy
time. The pontiff, who watched and irritated their devout
impatience, was soon persuaded by ancient testimony of the
justice of their claim; and he proclaimed a plenary absolution to
all Catholics who, in the course of that year, and at every
similar period, should respectfully visit the apostolic churches
of St. Peter and St. Paul. The welcome sound was propagated
through Christendom; and at first from the nearest provinces of
Italy, and at length from the remote kingdoms of Hungary and
Britain, the highways were thronged with a swarm of pilgrims who
sought to expiate their sins in a journey, however costly or
laborious, which was exempt from the perils of military service.
All exceptions of rank or sex, of age or infirmity, were
forgotten in the common transport; and in the streets and
churches many persons were trampled to death by the eagerness of
devotion. The calculation of their numbers could not be easy nor
accurate; and they have probably been magnified by a dexterous
clergy, well apprised of the contagion of example: yet we are
assured by a judicious historian, who assisted at the ceremony,
that Rome was never replenished with less than two hundred
thousand strangers; and another spectator has fixed at two
millions the total concourse of the year. A trifling oblation
from each individual would accumulate a royal treasure; and two
priests stood night and day, with rakes in their hands, to
collect, without counting, the heaps of gold and silver that were
poured on the altar of St. Paul. ^86 It was fortunately a season
of peace and plenty; and if forage was scarce, if inns and
lodgings were extravagantly dear, an inexhaustible supply of
bread and wine, of meat and fish, was provided by the policy of
Boniface and the venal hospitality of the Romans. From a city
without trade or industry, all casual riches will speedily
evaporate: but the avarice and envy of the next generation
solicited Clement the Sixth ^87 to anticipate the distant period
of the century. The gracious pontiff complied with their wishes;
afforded Rome this poor consolation for his loss; and justified
the change by the name and practice of the Mosaic Jubilee. ^88
His summons was obeyed; and the number, zeal, and liberality of
the pilgrims did not yield to the primitive festival. But they
encountered the triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine:
many wives and virgins were violated in the castles of Italy; and
many strangers were pillaged or murdered by the savage Romans, no
longer moderated by the presence of their bishops. ^89 To the
impatience of the popes we may ascribe the successive reduction
to fifty, thirty-three, and twenty-five years; although the
second of these terms is commensurate with the life of Christ.
The profusion of indulgences, the revolt of the Protestants, and
the decline of superstition, have much diminished the value of
the jubilee; yet even the nineteenth and last festival was a year
of pleasure and profit to the Romans; and a philosophic smile
will not disturb the triumph of the priest or the happiness of
the people. ^90</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: Our primitive account is from Cardinal James
Caietan, (Maxima Bibliot. Patrum, tom. xxv.;) and I am at a loss
to determine whether the nephew of Boniface VIII. be a fool or a
knave: the uncle is a much clearer character.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: See John Villani (l. viii. c. 36) in the xiith,
and the Chronicon Astense, in the xith volume (p. 191, 192) of
Muratori's Collection Papa innumerabilem pecuniam ab eisdem
accepit, nam duo clerici, cum rastris, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: The two bulls of Boniface VIII. and Clement VI.
are inserted on the Corpus Juris Canonici, Extravagant. Commun.
l. v. tit. ix c 1, 2.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: The sabbatic years and jubilees of the Mosaic
law, (Car. Sigon. de Republica Hebr&aelig;orum, Opp. tom. iv. l.
iii. c. 14, 14, p. 151, 152,) the suspension of all care and
labor, the periodical release of lands, debts, servitude,
&amp;c., may seem a noble idea, but the execution would be
impracticable in a <strong><em>profane</em></strong> republic;
and I should be glad to learn that this ruinous festival was
observed by the Jewish people.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: See the Chronicle of Matteo Villani, (l. i. c.
56,) in the xivth vol. of Muratori, and the M&eacute;moires sur
la Vie de P&eacute;trarque, tom. iii. p. 75--89.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: The subject is exhausted by M. Chais, a French
minister at the Hague, in his Lettres Historiques et Dogmatiques,
sur les Jubil&eacute;s et es Indulgences; la Haye, 1751, 3 vols.
in 12mo.; an elaborate and pleasing work, had not the author
preferred the character of a polemic to that of a
philosopher.]</p>

<p>In the beginning of the eleventh century, Italy was exposed to
the feudal tyranny, alike oppressive to the sovereign and the
people. The rights of human nature were vindicated by her
numerous republics, who soon extended their liberty and dominion
from the city to the adjacent country. The sword of the nobles
was broken; their slaves were enfranchised; their castles were
demolished; they assumed the habits of society and obedience;
their ambition was confined to municipal honors, and in the
proudest aristocracy of Venice on Genoa, each patrician was
subject to the laws. ^91 But the feeble and disorderly government
of Rome was unequal to the task of curbing her rebellious sons,
who scorned the authority of the magistrate within and without
the walls. It was no longer a civil contention between the nobles
and plebeians for the government of the state: the barons
asserted in arms their personal independence; their palaces and
castles were fortified against a siege; and their private
quarrels were maintained by the numbers of their vassals and
retainers. In origin and affection, they were aliens to their
country: ^92 and a genuine Roman, could such have been produced,
might have renounced these haughty strangers, who disdained the
appellation of citizens, and proudly styled themselves the
princes, of Rome. ^93 After a dark series of revolutions, all
records of pedigree were lost; the distinction of surnames was
abolished; the blood of the nations was mingled in a thousand
channels; and the Goths and Lombards, the Greeks and Franks, the
Germans and Normans, had obtained the fairest possessions by
royal bounty, or the prerogative of valor. These examples might
be readily presumed; but the elevation of a Hebrew race to the
rank of senators and consuls is an event without a parallel in
the long captivity of these miserable exiles. ^94 In the time of
Leo the Ninth, a wealthy and learned Jew was converted to
Christianity, and honored at his baptism with the name of his
godfather, the reigning Pope. The zeal and courage of Peter the
son of Leo were signalized in the cause of Gregory the Seventh,
who intrusted his faithful adherent with the government of
Adrian's mole, the tower of Crescentius, or, as it is now called,
the castle of St. Angelo. Both the father and the son were the
parents of a numerous progeny: their riches, the fruits of usury,
were shared with the noblest families of the city; and so
extensive was their alliance, that the grandson of the proselyte
was exalted by the weight of his kindred to the throne of St.
Peter. A majority of the clergy and people supported his cause:
he reigned several years in the Vatican; and it is only the
eloquence of St. Bernard, and the final triumph of Innocence the
Second, that has branded Anacletus with the epithet of antipope.
After his defeat and death, the posterity of Leo is no longer
conspicuous; and none will be found of the modern nobles
ambitious of descending from a Jewish stock. It is not my design
to enumerate the Roman families which have failed at different
periods, or those which are continued in different degrees of
splendor to the present time. ^95 The old consular line of the
<strong><em>Frangipani</em></strong> discover their name in the
generous act of <strong><em>breaking</em></strong> or dividing
bread in a time of famine; and such benevolence is more truly
glorious than to have enclosed, with their allies the
<strong><em>Corsi</em></strong>, a spacious quarter of the city
in the chains of their fortifications; the
<strong><em>Savelli</em></strong>, as it should seem a Sabine
race, have maintained their original dignity; the obsolete
surname of the <strong><em>Capizucchi</em></strong> is inscribed
on the coins of the first senators; the
<strong><em>Conti</em></strong> preserve the honor, without the
estate, of the counts of Signia; and the
<strong><em>Annibaldi</em></strong> must have been very ignorant,
or very modest, if they had not descended from the Carthaginian
hero. ^96</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: Muratori (Dissert. xlvii.) alleges the Annals of
Florence, Padua, Genoa, &amp;c., the analogy of the rest, the
evidence of Otho of Frisingen, (de Gest. Fred. I. l. ii. c. 13,)
and the submission of the marquis of Este.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: As early as the year 824, the emperor Lothaire
I. found it expedient to interrogate the Roman people, to learn
from each individual by what national law he chose to be
governed. (Muratori, Dissertat xxii.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: Petrarch attacks these foreigners, the tyrants
of Rome, in a declamation or epistle, full of bold truths and
absurd pedantry, in which he applies the maxims, and even
prejudices, of the old republic to the state of the xivth
century, (M&eacute;moires, tom. iii. p. 157--169.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: The origin and adventures of the Jewish family
are noticed by Pagi, (Critica, tom. iv. p. 435, A.D. 1124, No. 3,
4,) who draws his information from the Chronographus
Maurigniacensis, and Arnulphus Sagiensis de Schismate, (in
Muratori, Script. Ital. tom. iii. P. i. p. 423--432.) The fact
must in some degree be true; yet I could wish that it had been
coolly related, before it was turned into a reproach against the
antipope.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: Muratori has given two dissertations (xli. and
xlii.) to the names, surnames, and families of Italy. Some
nobles, who glory in their domestic fables, may be offended with
his firm and temperate criticism; yet surely some ounces of pure
gold are of more value than many pounds of base metal.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: The cardinal of St. George, in his poetical, or
rather metrical history of the election and coronation of
Boniface VIII., (Muratori Script. Ital. tom. iii. P. i. p. 641,
&amp;c.,) describes the state and families of Rome at the
coronation of Boniface VIII., (A.D. 1295.)</p>

<p>Interea titulis redimiti sanguine et armis</p>

<p>Illustresque viri Roman&acirc; a stirpe trahentes</p>

<p>Nomen in emeritos tant&aelig; virtutis honores</p>

<p>Insulerant sese medios festumque colebant</p>

<p>Aurata fulgente tog&acirc;, sociante caterv&acirc;.</p>

<p>Ex ipsis devota domus pr&aelig;stantis ab
<strong><em>Urs&acirc;</em></strong></p>

<p>Ecclesi&aelig;, vultumque gerens demissius altum</p>

<p>Festa <strong><em>Columna</em></strong> jocis, necnon
<strong><em>Sabellia</em></strong> mitis;</p>

<p>Stephanides senior, <strong><em>Comites</em></strong>,
<strong><em>Annibalica</em></strong> proles,</p>

<p>Pr&aelig;fectusque urbis magnum sine viribus nomen.</p>

<p>(l. ii. c. 5, 100, p. 647, 648.)</p>

<p>The ancient statutes of Rome (l. iii. c. 59, p. 174, 175)
distinguish eleven families of barons, who are obliged to swear
in concilio communi, before the senator, that they would not
harbor or protect any malefactors, outlaws, &amp;c. -- a feeble
security!]</p>

<p>But among, perhaps above, the peers and princes of the city, I
distinguish the rival houses of Colonna and Ursini, whose private
story is an essential part of the annals of modern Rome. I. The
name and arms of Colonna ^97 have been the theme of much doubtful
etymology; nor have the orators and antiquarians overlooked
either Trajan's pillar, or the columns of Hercules, or the pillar
of Christ's flagellation, or the luminous column that guided the
Israelites in the desert. Their first historical appearance in
the year eleven hundred and four attests the power and antiquity,
while it explains the simple meaning, of the name. By the
usurpation of Cav&aelig;, the Colonna provoked the arms of
Paschal the Second; but they lawfully held in the Campagna of
Rome the hereditary fiefs of Zagarola and
<strong><em>Colonna</em></strong>; and the latter of these towns
was probably adorned with some lofty pillar, the relic of a villa
or temple. ^98 They likewise possessed one moiety of the
neighboring city of Tusculum, a strong presumption of their
descent from the counts of Tusculum, who in the tenth century
were the tyrants of the apostolic see. According to their own and
the public opinion, the primitive and remote source was derived
from the banks of the Rhine; ^99 and the sovereigns of Germany
were not ashamed of a real or fabulous affinity with a noble
race, which in the revolutions of seven hundred years has been
often illustrated by merit and always by fortune. ^100 About the
end of the thirteenth century, the most powerful branch was
composed of an uncle and six bothers, all conspicuous in arms, or
in the honors of the church. Of these, Peter was elected senator
of Rome, introduced to the Capitol in a triumphal car, and hailed
in some vain acclamations with the title of C&aelig;sar; while
John and Stephen were declared marquis of Ancona and count of
Romagna, by Nicholas the Fourth, a patron so partial to their
family, that he has been delineated in satirical portraits,
imprisoned as it were in a hollow pillar. ^101 After his decease
their haughty behavior provoked the displeasure of the most
implacable of mankind. The two cardinals, the uncle and the
nephew, denied the election of Boniface the Eighth; and the
Colonna were oppressed for a moment by his temporal and spiritual
arms. ^102 He proclaimed a crusade against his personal enemies;
their estates were confiscated; their fortresses on either side
of the Tyber were besieged by the troops of St. Peter and those
of the rival nobles; and after the ruin of Palestrina or
Pr&aelig;neste, their principal seat, the ground was marked with
a ploughshare, the emblem of perpetual desolation. Degraded,
banished, proscribed, the six brothers, in disguise and danger,
wandered over Europe without renouncing the hope of deliverance
and revenge. In this double hope, the French court was their
surest asylum; they prompted and directed the enterprise of
Philip; and I should praise their magnanimity, had they respected
the misfortune and courage of the captive tyrant. His civil acts
were annulled by the Roman people, who restored the honors and
possessions of the Colonna; and some estimate may be formed of
their wealth by their losses, of their losses by the damages of
one hundred thousand gold florins which were granted them against
the accomplices and heirs of the deceased pope. All the spiritual
censures and disqualifications were abolished ^103 by his prudent
successors; and the fortune of the house was more firmly
established by this transient hurricane. The boldness of Sciarra
Colonna was signalized in the captivity of Boniface, and long
afterwards in the coronation of Lewis of Bavaria; and by the
gratitude of the emperor, the pillar in their arms was encircled
with a royal crown. But the first of the family in fame and merit
was the elder Stephen, whom Petrarch loved and esteemed as a hero
superior to his own times, and not unworthy of ancient Rome.
Persecution and exile displayed to the nations his abilities in
peace and war; in his distress he was an object, not of pity, but
of reverence; the aspect of danger provoked him to avow his name
and country; and when he was asked, "Where is now your fortress?"
he laid his hand on his heart, and answered, "Here." He supported
with the same virtue the return of prosperity; and, till the ruin
of his declining age, the ancestors, the character, and the
children of Stephen Colonna, exalted his dignity in the Roman
republic, and at the court of Avignon. II. The Ursini migrated
from Spoleto; ^104 the sons of Ursus, as they are styled in the
twelfth century, from some eminent person, who is only known as
the father of their race. But they were soon distinguished among
the nobles of Rome, by the number and bravery of their kinsmen,
the strength of their towers, the honors of the senate and sacred
college, and the elevation of two popes, Celestin the Third and
Nicholas the Third, of their name and lineage. ^105 Their riches
may be accused as an early abuse of nepotism: the estates of St.
Peter were alienated in their favor by the liberal Celestin; ^106
and Nicholas was ambitious for their sake to solicit the alliance
of monarchs; to found new kingdoms in Lombardy and Tuscany; and
to invest them with the perpetual office of senators of Rome. All
that has been observed of the greatness of the Colonna will
likewise redeemed to the glory of the Ursini, their constant and
equal antagonists in the long hereditary feud, which distracted
above two hundred and fifty years the ecclesiastical state. The
jealously of preeminence and power was the true ground of their
quarrel; but as a specious badge of distinction, the Colonna
embraced the name of Ghibelines and the party of the empire; the
Ursini espoused the title of Guelphs and the cause of the church.
The eagle and the keys were displayed in their adverse banners;
and the two factions of Italy most furiously raged when the
origin and nature of the dispute were long since forgotten. ^107
After the retreat of the popes to Avignon they disputed in arms
the vacant republic; and the mischiefs of discord were
perpetuated by the wretched compromise of electing each year two
rival senators. By their private hostilities the city and country
were desolated, and the fluctuating balance inclined with their
alternate success. But none of either family had fallen by the
sword, till the most renowned champion of the Ursini was
surprised and slain by the younger Stephen Colonna. ^108 His
triumph is stained with the reproach of violating the truce;
their defeat was basely avenged by the assassination, before the
church door, of an innocent boy and his two servants. Yet the
victorious Colonna, with an annual colleague, was declared
senator of Rome during the term of five years. And the muse of
Petrarch inspired a wish, a hope, a prediction, that the generous
youth, the son of his venerable hero, would restore Rome and
Italy to their pristine glory; that his justice would extirpate
the wolves and lions, the serpents and
<strong><em>bears</em></strong>, who labored to subvert the
eternal basis of the marble column. ^109</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: It is pity that the Colonna themselves have not
favored the world with a complete and critical history of their
illustrious house. I adhere to Muratori, (Dissert. xlii. tom.
iii. p. 647, 648.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 98: Pandulph. Pisan. in Vit. Paschal. II. in
Muratori, Script. Ital. tom. iii. P. i. p. 335. The family has
still great possessions in the Campagna of Rome; but they have
alienated to the Rospigliosi this original fief of
<strong><em>Colonna</em></strong>, (Eschinard, p. 258, 259.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 99:</p>

<p>Te longinqua dedit tellus et pascua Rheni,</p>

<p>says Petrarch; and, in 1417, a duke of Guelders and Juliers
acknowledges (Lenfant, Hist. du Concile de Constance, tom. ii. p.
539) his descent from the ancestors of Martin V., (Otho Colonna:)
but the royal author of the Memoirs of Brandenburg observes, that
the sceptre in his arms has been confounded with the column. To
maintain the Roman origin of the Colonna, it was ingeniously
supposed (Diario di Monaldeschi, in the Script. Ital. tom. xii.
p. 533) that a cousin of the emperor Nero escaped from the city,
and founded Mentz in Germany.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 100: I cannot overlook the Roman triumph of ovation
on Marce Antonio Colonna, who had commanded the pope's galleys at
the naval victory of Lepanto, (Thuan. Hist. l. 7, tom. iii. p.
55, 56. Muret. Oratio x. Opp. tom. i. p. 180--190.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 101: Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. x. p. 216,
220.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 102: Petrarch's attachment to the Colonna has
authorized the abb&eacute; de Sade to expatiate on the state of
the family in the fourteenth century, the persecution of Boniface
VIII., the character of Stephen and his sons, their quarrels with
the Ursini, &amp;c., (M&eacute;moires sur P&eacute;trarque, tom.
i. p. 98--110, 146--148, 174--176, 222--230, 275--280.) His
criticism often rectifies the hearsay stories of Villani, and the
errors of the less diligent moderns. I understand the branch of
Stephen to be now extinct.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 103: Alexander III. had declared the Colonna who
adhered to the emperor Frederic I. incapable of holding any
ecclesiastical benefice, (Villani, l. v. c. 1;) and the last
stains of annual excommunication were purified by Sixtus V.,
(Vita di Sisto V. tom. iii. p. 416.) Treason, sacrilege, and
proscription are often the best titles of ancient nobility.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 104:</p>

<p>-------- Vallis te proxima misit,</p>

<p>Appenninigen&aelig; qua prata virentia sylv&aelig;</p>

<p>Spoletana metunt armenta gregesque protervi.</p>

<p>Monaldeschi (tom. xii. Script. Ital. p. 533) gives the Ursini
a French origin, which may be remotely true.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 105: In the metrical life of Celestine V. by the
cardinal of St. George (Muratori, tom. iii. P. i. p. 613,
&amp;c.,) we find a luminous, and not inelegant, passage, (l. i.
c. 3, p. 203 &amp;c.:) --</p>

<p>-------- genuit quem nobilis Urs&aelig;
(<strong><em>Ursi?</em></strong>)</p>

<p>Progenies, Romana domus, veterataque magnis</p>

<p>Fascibus in clero, pompasque experta senat&ucirc;s,</p>

<p>Bellorumque man&ucirc; grandi stipata parentum</p>

<p>Cardineos apices necnon fastigia dudum</p>

<p>Papat&ucirc;s <strong><em>iterata</em></strong> tenens.</p>

<p>Muratori (Dissert. xlii. tom. iii.) observes, that the first
Ursini pontificate of Celestine III. was unknown: he is inclined
to read <strong><em>Ursi</em></strong> progenies.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 106: Filii Ursi, quondam Clestini pap&aelig;
nepotes, de bonis ecclesi&aelig; Roman&aelig; ditati, (Vit.
Innocent. III. in Muratori, Script. tom. iii. P. i.) The partial
prodigality of Nicholas III. is more conspicuous in Villani and
Muratori. Yet the Ursini would disdain the nephews of a
<strong><em>modern</em></strong> pope.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 107: In his fifty-first Dissertation on the Italian
Antiquities, Muratori explains the factions of the Guelphs and
Ghibelines.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 108: Petrarch (tom. i. p. 222--230) has celebrated
this victory according to the Colonna; but two contemporaries, a
Florentine (Giovanni Villani, l. x. c. 220) and a Roman,
(Ludovico Monaldeschi, p. 532--534,) are less favorable to their
arms.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 109: The abb&eacute; de Sade (tom. i. Notes, p.
61--66) has applied the vith Canzone of Petrarch,
<strong><em>Spirto Gentil</em></strong>, &amp;c., to Stephen
Colonna the younger:</p>

<p>Orsi, lupi, leoni, aquile e serpi</p>

<p>Al una gran marmorea <strong><em>colexna</em></strong></p>

<p>Fanno noja sovente e &agrave; se danno. 11]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXX: Final Settlement Of The Ecclesiastical
State.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong></p>

<p>Character And Coronation Of Petrarch. -- Restoration Of The
Freedom And Government Of Rome By The Tribune Rienzi. -- His
Virtues And Vices, His Expulsion And Death. -- Return Of The
Popes From Avignon. -- Great Schism Of The West. -- Reunion Of
The Latin Church. -- Last Struggles Of Roman Liberty. -- Statutes
Of Rome. -- Final Settlement Of The Ecclesiastical State.</p>

<p>In the apprehension of modern times, Petrarch ^1 is the
Italian songster of Laura and love. In the harmony of his Tuscan
rhymes, Italy applauds, or rather adores, the father of her lyric
poetry; and his verse, or at least his name, is repeated by the
enthusiasm, or affectation, of amorous sensibility. Whatever may
be the private taste of a stranger, his slight and superficial
knowledge should humbly acquiesce in the judgment of a learned
nation; yet I may hope or presume, that the Italians do not
compare the tedious uniformity of sonnets and elegies with the
sublime compositions of their epic muse, the original wildness of
Dante, the regular beauties of Tasso, and the boundless variety
of the incomparable Ariosto. The merits of the lover I am still
less qualified to appreciate: nor am I deeply interested in a
metaphysical passion for a nymph so shadowy, that her existence
has been questioned; ^2 for a matron so prolific, ^3 that she was
delivered of eleven legitimate children, ^4 while her amorous
swain sighed and sung at the fountain of Vaucluse. ^5 But in the
eyes of Petrarch, and those of his graver contemporaries, his
love was a sin, and Italian verse a frivolous amusement. His
Latin works of philosophy, poetry, and eloquence, established his
serious reputation, which was soon diffused from Avignon over
France and Italy: his friends and disciples were multiplied in
every city; and if the ponderous volume of his writings ^6 be now
abandoned to a long repose, our gratitude must applaud the man,
who by precept and example revived the spirit and study of the
Augustan age. From his earliest youth, Petrarch aspired to the
poetic crown. The academical honors of the three faculties had
introduced a royal degree of master or doctor in the art of
poetry; ^7 and the title of poet-laureate, which custom, rather
than vanity, perpetuates in the English court, ^8 was first
invented by the C&aelig;sars of Germany. In the musical games of
antiquity, a prize was bestowed on the victor: ^9 the belief that
Virgil and Horace had been crowned in the Capitol inflamed the
emulation of a Latin bard; ^10 and the laurel ^11 was endeared to
the lover by a verbal resemblance with the name of his mistress.
The value of either object was enhanced by the difficulties of
the pursuit; and if the virtue or prudence of Laura was
inexorable, ^12 he enjoyed, and might boast of enjoying, the
nymph of poetry. His vanity was not of the most delicate kind,
since he applauds the success of his own
<strong><em>labors</em></strong>; his name was popular; his
friends were active; the open or secret opposition of envy and
prejudice was surmounted by the dexterity of patient merit. In
the thirty-sixth year of his age, he was solicited to accept the
object of his wishes; and on the same day, in the solitude of
Vaucluse, he received a similar and solemn invitation from the
senate of Rome and the university of Paris. The learning of a
theological school, and the ignorance of a lawless city, were
alike unqualified to bestow the ideal though immortal wreath
which genius may obtain from the free applause of the public and
of posterity: but the candidate dismissed this troublesome
reflection; and after some moments of complacency and suspense,
preferred the summons of the metropolis of the world.</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: The M&eacute;moires sur la Vie de Fran&ccedil;ois
P&eacute;trarque, (Amsterdam, 1764, 1767, 3 vols. in 4to.,) form
a copious, original, and entertaining work, a labor of love,
composed from the accurate study of Petrarch and his
contemporaries; but the hero is too often lost in the general
history of the age, and the author too often languishes in the
affectation of politeness and gallantry. In the preface to his
first volume, he enumerates and weighs twenty Italian
biographers, who have professedly treated of the same
subject.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: The allegorical interpretation prevailed in the
xvth century; but the wise commentators were not agreed whether
they should understand by Laura, religion, or virtue, or the
blessed virgin, or --------. See the prefaces to the first and
second volume.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: Laure de Noves, born about the year 1307, was
married in January 1325, to Hugues de Sade, a noble citizen of
Avignon, whose jealousy was not the effect of love, since he
married a second wife within seven months of her death, which
happened the 6th of April, 1348, precisely one-and-twenty years
after Petrarch had seen and loved her.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Corpus crebris partubus exhaustum: from one of
these is issued, in the tenth degree, the abb&eacute; de Sade,
the fond and grateful biographer of Petrarch; and this domestic
motive most probably suggested the idea of his work, and urged
him to inquire into every circumstance that could affect the
history and character of his grandmother, (see particularly tom.
i. p. 122--133, notes, p. 7--58, tom. ii. p. 455--495 not. p.
76--82.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: Vaucluse, so familiar to our English travellers,
is described from the writings of Petrarch, and the local
knowledge of his biographer, (M&eacute;moires, tom. i. p.
340--359.) It was, in truth, the retreat of a hermit; and the
moderns are much mistaken, if they place Laura and a happy lover
in the grotto.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: Of 1250 pages, in a close print, at Basil in the
xvith century, but without the date of the year. The abb&eacute;
de Sade calls aloud for a new edition of Petrarch's Latin works;
but I much doubt whether it would redound to the profit of the
bookseller, or the amusement of the public.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: Consult Selden's Titles of Honor, in his works,
(vol. iii. p. 457--466.) A hundred years before Petrarch, St.
Francis received the visit of a poet, qui ab imperatore fuerat
coronatus et exinde rex versuum dictus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: From Augustus to Louis, the muse has too often
been false and venal: but I much doubt whether any age or court
can produce a similar establishment of a stipendiary poet, who in
every reign, and at all events, is bound to furnish twice a year
a measure of praise and verse, such as may be sung in the chapel,
and, I believe, in the presence, of the sovereign. I speak the
more freely, as the best time for abolishing this ridiculous
custom is while the prince is a man of virtue and the poet a man
of genius.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: Isocrates (in Panegyrico, tom. i. p. 116, 117,
edit. Battie, Cantab. 1729) claims for his native Athens the
glory of first instituting and recommending the alwnaV -- kai ta
aqla megista -- mh monon tacouV kai rwmhV, alla kai logwn kai
gnwmhV. The example of the Panathen&aelig;a was imitated at
Delphi; but the Olympic games were ignorant of a musical crown,
till it was extorted by the vain tyranny of Nero, (Sueton. in
Nerone, c. 23; Philostrat. apud Casaubon ad locum; Dion Cassius,
or Xiphilin, l. lxiii. p. 1032, 1041. Potter's Greek Antiquities,
vol. i. p. 445, 450.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: The Capitoline games (certamen quinquenale,
<strong><em>musicum</em></strong>, equestre, gymnicum) were
instituted by Domitian (Sueton. c. 4) in the year of Christ 86,
(Censorin. de Die Natali, c. 18, p. 100, edit. Havercamp.) and
were not abolished in the ivth century, (Ausonius de
Professoribus Burdegal. V.) If the crown were given to superior
merit, the exclusion of Statius (Capitolia nostr&aelig; inficiata
lyr&aelig;, Sylv. l. iii. v. 31) may do honor to the games of the
Capitol; but the Latin poets who lived before Domitian were
crowned only in the public opinion.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: Petrarch and the senators of Rome were ignorant
that the laurel was not the Capitoline, but the Delphic crown,
(Plin. Hist. Natur p. 39. Hist. Critique de la R&eacute;publique
des Lettres, tom. i. p. 150--220.) The victors in the Capitol
were crowned with a garland of oak eaves, (Martial, l. iv.
epigram 54.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: The pious grandson of Laura has labored, and not
without success, to vindicate her immaculate chastity against the
censures of the grave and the sneers of the profane, (tom. ii.
notes, p. 76--82.)]</p>

<p>The ceremony of his coronation ^13 was performed in the
Capitol, by his friend and patron the supreme magistrate of the
republic. Twelve patrician youths were arrayed in scarlet; six
representatives of the most illustrious families, in green robes,
with garlands of flowers, accompanied the procession; in the
midst of the princes and nobles, the senator, count of
Anguillara, a kinsman of the Colonna, assumed his throne; and at
the voice of a herald Petrarch arose. After discoursing on a text
of Virgil, and thrice repeating his vows for the prosperity of
Rome, he knelt before the throne, and received from the senator a
laurel crown, with a more precious declaration, "This is the
reward of merit." The people shouted, "Long life to the Capitol
and the poet!" A sonnet in praise of Rome was accepted as the
effusion of genius and gratitude; and after the whole procession
had visited the Vatican, the profane wreath was suspended before
the shrine of St. Peter. In the act or diploma ^14 which was
presented to Petrarch, the title and prerogatives of
poet-laureate are revived in the Capitol, after the lapse of
thirteen hundred years; and he receives the perpetual privilege
of wearing, at his choice, a crown of laurel, ivy, or myrtle, of
assuming the poetic habit, and of teaching, disputing,
interpreting, and composing, in all places whatsoever, and on all
subjects of literature. The grant was ratified by the authority
of the senate and people; and the character of citizen was the
recompense of his affection for the Roman name. They did him
honor, but they did him justice. In the familiar society of
Cicero and Livy, he had imbibed the ideas of an ancient patriot;
and his ardent fancy kindled every idea to a sentiment, and every
sentiment to a passion. The aspect of the seven hills and their
majestic ruins confirmed these lively impressions; and he loved a
country by whose liberal spirit he had been crowned and adopted.
The poverty and debasement of Rome excited the indignation and
pity of her grateful son; he dissembled the faults of his
fellow-citizens; applauded with partial fondness the last of
their heroes and matrons; and in the remembrance of the past, in
the hopes of the future, was pleased to forget the miseries of
the present time. Rome was still the lawful mistress of the
world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had
abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the
Rh&ocirc;ne and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue,
the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion.
Amidst the indulgence of enthusiasm and eloquence, ^15 Petrarch,
Italy, and Europe, were astonished by a revolution which realized
for a moment his most splendid visions. The rise and fall of the
tribune Rienzi will occupy the following pages: ^16 the subject
is interesting, the materials are rich, and the glance of a
patriot bard ^17 will sometimes vivify the copious, but simple,
narrative of the Florentine, ^18 and more especially of the
Roman, historian. ^19</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: The whole process of Petrarch's coronation is
accurately described by the abb&eacute; de Sade, (tom. i. p.
425--435, tom. ii. p. 1--6, notes, p. 1--13,) from his own
writings, and the Roman diary of Ludovico, Monaldeschi, without
mixing in this authentic narrative the more recent fables of
Sannuccio Delbene.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14: The original act is printed among the Pieces
Justificatives in the M&eacute;moires sur P&eacute;trarque, tom.
iii. p. 50--53.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: To find the proofs of his enthusiasm for Rome, I
need only request that the reader would open, by chance, either
Petrarch, or his French biographer. The latter has described the
poet's first visit to Rome, (tom. i. p. 323--335.) But in the
place of much idle rhetoric and morality, Petrarch might have
amused the present and future age with an original account of the
city and his coronation.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: It has been treated by the pen of a Jesuit, the
P. de Cerceau whose posthumous work (Conjuration de Nicolas
Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, Tyran de Rome, en 1347) was published at
Paris, 1748, in 12mo. I am indebted to him for some facts and
documents in John Hocsemius, canon of Liege, a contemporary
historian, (Fabricius Bibliot. Lat. Med. &AElig;vi, tom. iii. p.
273, tom. iv. p. 85.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: The abb&eacute; de Sade, who so freely
expatiates on the history of the xivth century, might treat, as
his proper subject, a revolution in which the heart of Petrarch
was so deeply engaged, (M&eacute;moires, tom. ii. p. 50, 51,
320--417, notes, p. 70--76, tom. iii. p. 221--243, 366--375.) Not
an idea or a fact in the writings of Petrarch has probably
escaped him.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: Giovanni Villani, l. xii. c. 89, 104, in
Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, tom. xiii. p. 969, 970,
981--983.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: In his third volume of Italian antiquities, (p.
249--548,) Muratori has inserted the Fragmenta Histori&aelig;
Roman&aelig; ab Anno 1327 usque ad Annum 1354, in the original
dialect of Rome or Naples in the xivth century, and a Latin
version for the benefit of strangers. It contains the most
particular and authentic life of Cola (Nicholas) di Rienzi; which
had been printed at Bracciano, 1627, in 4to., under the name of
Tomaso Fortifiocca, who is only mentioned in this work as having
been punished by the tribune for forgery. Human nature is
scarcely capable of such sublime or stupid impartiality: but
whosoever in the author of these Fragments, he wrote on the spot
and at the time, and paints, without design or art, the manners
of Rome and the character of the tribune. *</p>

<p>Note: * Since the publication of my first edition of Gibbon,
some new and very remarkable documents have been brought to light
in a life of Nicolas Rienzi,--Cola di Rienzo und seine Zeit, --
by Dr. Felix Papencordt. The most important of these documents
are letters from Rienzi to Charles the Fourth, emperor and king
of Bohemia, and to the archbishop of Praque; they enter into the
whole history of his adventurous career during its first period,
and throw a strong light upon his extraordinary character. These
documents were first discovered and made use of, to a certain
extent, by Pelzel, the historian of Bohemia. The originals have
disappeared, but a copy made by Pelzel for his own use is now in
the library of Count Thun at Teschen. There seems no doubt of
their authenticity. Dr. Papencordt has printed the whole in his
Urkunden, with the exception of one long theological paper. -- M.
1845.]</p>

<p>In a quarter of the city which was inhabited only by mechanics
and Jews, the marriage of an innkeeper and a washer woman
produced the future deliverer of Rome. ^20 ^! From such parents
Nicholas Rienzi Gabrini could inherit neither dignity nor
fortune; and the gift of a liberal education, which they
painfully bestowed, was the cause of his glory and untimely end.
The study of history and eloquence, the writings of Cicero,
Seneca, Livy, C&aelig;sar, and Valerius Maximus, elevated above
his equals and contemporaries the genius of the young plebeian:
he perused with indefatigable diligence the manuscripts and
marbles of antiquity; loved to dispense his knowledge in familiar
language; and was often provoked to exclaim, "Where are now these
Romans? their virtue, their justice, their power? why was I not
born in those happy times?" ^21 When the republic addressed to
the throne of Avignon an embassy of the three orders, the spirit
and eloquence of Rienzi recommended him to a place among the
thirteen deputies of the commons. The orator had the honor of
haranguing Pope Clement the Sixth, and the satisfaction of
conversing with Petrarch, a congenial mind: but his aspiring
hopes were chilled by disgrace and poverty and the patriot was
reduced to a single garment and the charity of the hospital. ^*
From this misery he was relieved by the sense of merit or the
smile of favor; and the employment of apostolic notary afforded
him a daily stipend of five gold florins, a more honorable and
extensive connection, and the right of contrasting, both in words
and actions, his own integrity with the vices of the state. The
eloquence of Rienzi was prompt and persuasive: the multitude is
always prone to envy and censure: he was stimulated by the loss
of a brother and the impunity of the assassins; nor was it
possible to excuse or exaggerate the public calamities. The
blessings of peace and justice, for which civil society has been
instituted, were banished from Rome: the jealous citizens, who
might have endured every personal or pecuniary injury, were most
deeply wounded in the dishonor of their wives and daughters: ^22
they were equally oppressed by the arrogance of the nobles and
the corruption of the magistrates; ^! and the abuse of arms or of
laws was the only circumstance that distinguished the lions from
the dogs and serpents of the Capitol. These allegorical emblems
were variously repeated in the pictures which Rienzi exhibited in
the streets and churches; and while the spectators gazed with
curious wonder, the bold and ready orator unfolded the meaning,
applied the satire, inflamed their passions, and announced a
distant hope of comfort and deliverance. The privileges of Rome,
her eternal sovereignty over her princes and provinces, was the
theme of his public and private discourse; and a monument of
servitude became in his hands a title and incentive of liberty.
The decree of the senate, which granted the most ample
prerogatives to the emperor Vespasian, had been inscribed on a
copper plate still extant in the choir of the church of St. John
Lateran. ^23 A numerous assembly of nobles and plebeians was
invited to this political lecture, and a convenient theatre was
erected for their reception. The notary appeared in a magnificent
and mysterious habit, explained the inscription by a version and
commentary, ^24 and descanted with eloquence and zeal on the
ancient glories of the senate and people, from whom all legal
authority was derived. The supine ignorance of the nobles was
incapable of discerning the serious tendency of such
representations: they might sometimes chastise with words and
blows the plebeian reformer; but he was often suffered in the
Colonna palace to amuse the company with his threats and
predictions; and the modern Brutus ^25 was concealed under the
mask of folly and the character of a buffoon. While they indulged
their contempt, the restoration of the <strong><em>good
estate</em></strong>, his favorite expression, was entertained
among the people as a desirable, a possible, and at length as an
approaching, event; and while all had the disposition to applaud,
some had the courage to assist, their promised deliverer.</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: The first and splendid period of Rienzi, his
tribunitian government, is contained in the xviiith chapter of
the Fragments, (p. 399--479,) which, in the new division, forms
the iid book of the history in xxxviii. smaller chapters or
sections.]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: But see in Dr. Papencordt's work, and in Rienzi's
own words, his claim to be a bastard son of the emperor Henry the
Seventh, whose intrigue with his mother Rienzi relates with a
sort of proud shamelessness. Compare account by the editor of Dr.
Papencordt's work in Quarterly Review vol. lxix. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: The reader may be pleased with a specimen of the
original idiom: F&ograve; da soa juventutine nutricato di latte
de eloquentia, bono gramatico, megliore rettuorico, autorista
bravo. Deh como et quanto era veloce leitore! moito usava Tito
Livio, Seneca, et Tullio, et Balerio Massimo, moito li dilettava
le magnificentie di Julio Cesare raccontare. Tutta la die se
speculava negl' intagli di marmo lequali iaccio intorno Roma. Non
era altri che esso, che sapesse lejere li antichi pataffii. Tutte
scritture antiche vulgarizzava; quesse fiure di marmo justamente
interpretava. On come spesso diceva, "Dove suono quelli buoni
Romani? dove ene loro somma justitia? poleramme trovare in tempo
che quessi fiuriano!"]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Sir J. Hobhouse published (in his Illustrations
of Childe Harold) Rienzi's joyful letter to the people of Rome on
the apparently favorable termination of this mission. -- M.
1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: Petrarch compares the jealousy of the Romans
with the easy temper of the husbands of Avignon,
(M&eacute;moires, tom. i. p. 330.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote !: All this Rienzi, writing at a later period to the
archbishop of Prague, attributed to the criminal abandonment of
his flock by the supreme pontiff. See Urkunde apud Papencordt, p.
xliv. Quarterly Review, p. 255. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: The fragments of the <strong><em>Lex
regia</em></strong> may be found in the Inscriptions of Gruter,
tom. i. p. 242, and at the end of the Tacitus of Ernesti, with
some learned notes of the editor, tom. ii.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: I cannot overlook a stupendous and laughable
blunder of Rienzi. The Lex regia empowers Vespasian to enlarge
the Pomrium, a word familiar to every antiquary. It was not so to
the tribune; he confounds it with
pom<strong><em>a</em></strong>rium, an orchard, translates lo
Jardino de Roma cioene Italia, and is copied by the less
excusable ignorance of the Latin translator (p. 406) and the
French historian, (p. 33.) Even the learning of Muratori has
slumbered over the passage.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: Priori (<strong><em>Bruto</em></strong>) tamen
similior, juvenis uterque, longe ingenio quam cujus simulationem
induerat, ut sub hoc obtent&ucirc; liberator ille P R. aperiretur
tempore suo . . . . Ille regibus, hic tyrannis contemptus, (Opp
(Opp. p. 536.) *</p>

<p>Note: * Fatcor attamen quod-nunc fatuum. nunc hystrionem, nunc
gravem nunc simplicem, nunc astutum, nunc fervidum, nunc timidum
simulatorem, et dissimulatorem ad hunc caritativum finem, quem
dixi, constitusepius memet ipsum. Writing to an archbishop, (of
Prague,) Rienzi alleges scriptural examples. Saltator coram archa
David et insanus apparuit coram Rege; blanda, astuta, et tecta
Judith astitit Holoferni; et astute Jacob meruit benedici,
Urkunde xlix. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>A prophecy, or rather a summons, affixed on the church door of
St. George, was the first public evidence of his designs; a
nocturnal assembly of a hundred citizens on Mount Aventine, the
first step to their execution. After an oath of secrecy and aid,
he represented to the conspirators the importance and facility of
their enterprise; that the nobles, without union or resources,
were strong only in the fear nobles, of their imaginary strength;
that all power, as well as right, was in the hands of the people;
that the revenues of the apostolical chamber might relieve the
public distress; and that the pope himself would approve their
victory over the common enemies of government and freedom. After
securing a faithful band to protect his first declaration, he
proclaimed through the city, by sound of trumpet, that on the
evening of the following day, all persons should assemble without
arms before the church of St. Angelo, to provide for the
reestablishment of the good estate. The whole night was employed
in the celebration of thirty masses of the Holy Ghost; and in the
morning, Rienzi, bareheaded, but in complete armor, issued from
the church, encompassed by the hundred conspirators. The pope's
vicar, the simple bishop of Orvieto, who had been persuaded to
sustain a part in this singular ceremony, marched on his right
hand; and three great standards were borne aloft as the emblems
of their design. In the first, the banner of
<strong><em>liberty</em></strong>, Rome was seated on two lions,
with a palm in one hand and a globe in the other; St. Paul, with
a drawn sword, was delineated in the banner of
<strong><em>justice</em></strong>; and in the third, St. Peter
held the keys of <strong><em>concord</em></strong> and
<strong><em>peace</em></strong>. Rienzi was encouraged by the
presence and applause of an innumerable crowd, who understood
little, and hoped much; and the procession slowly rolled forwards
from the castle of St. Angelo to the Capitol. His triumph was
disturbed by some secret emotions which he labored to suppress:
he ascended without opposition, and with seeming confidence, the
citadel of the republic; harangued the people from the balcony;
and received the most flattering confirmation of his acts and
laws. The nobles, as if destitute of arms and counsels, beheld in
silent consternation this strange revolution; and the moment had
been prudently chosen, when the most formidable, Stephen Colonna,
was absent from the city. On the first rumor, he returned to his
palace, affected to despise this plebeian tumult, and declared to
the messenger of Rienzi, that at his leisure he would cast the
madman from the windows of the Capitol. The great bell instantly
rang an alarm, and so rapid was the tide, so urgent was the
danger, that Colonna escaped with precipitation to the suburb of
St. Laurence: from thence, after a moment's refreshment, he
continued the same speedy career till he reached in safety his
castle of Palestrina; lamenting his own imprudence, which had not
trampled the spark of this mighty conflagration. A general and
peremptory order was issued from the Capitol to all the nobles,
that they should peaceably retire to their estates: they obeyed;
and their departure secured the tranquillity of the free and
obedient citizens of Rome.</p>

<p>But such voluntary obedience evaporates with the first
transports of zeal; and Rienzi felt the importance of justifying
his usurpation by a regular form and a legal title. At his own
choice, the Roman people would have displayed their attachment
and authority, by lavishing on his head the names of senator or
consul, of king or emperor: he preferred the ancient and modest
appellation of tribune; ^* the protection of the commons was the
essence of that sacred office; and they were ignorant, that it
had never been invested with any share in the legislative or
executive powers of the republic. In this character, and with the
consent of the Roman, the tribune enacted the most salutary laws
for the restoration and maintenance of the good estate. By the
first he fulfils the wish of honesty and inexperience, that no
civil suit should be protracted beyond the term of fifteen days.
The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing
against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would
have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the
legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury
with equal retaliation. But the execution of justice was hopeless
till he had previously abolished the tyranny of the nobles. It
was formally provided, that none, except the supreme magistrate,
should possess or command the gates, bridges, or towers of the
state; that no private garrisons should be introduced into the
towns or castles of the Roman territory; that none should bear
arms, or presume to fortify their houses in the city or country;
that the barons should be responsible for the safety of the
highways, and the free passage of provisions; and that the
protection of malefactors and robbers should be expiated by a
fine of a thousand marks of silver. But these regulations would
have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles
been awed by the sword of the civil power. A sudden alarm from
the bell of the Capitol could still summon to the standard above
twenty thousand volunteers: the support of the tribune and the
laws required a more regular and permanent force. In each harbor
of the coast a vessel was stationed for the assurance of
commerce; a standing militia of three hundred and sixty horse and
thirteen hundred foot was levied, clothed, and paid in the
thirteen quarters of the city: and the spirit of a commonwealth
may be traced in the grateful allowance of one hundred florins,
or pounds, to the heirs of every soldier who lost his life in the
service of his country. For the maintenance of the public
defence, for the establishment of granaries, for the relief of
widows, orphans, and indigent convents, Rienzi applied, without
fear of sacrilege, the revenues of the apostolic chamber: the
three branches of hearth-money, the salt-duty, and the customs,
were each of the annual produce of one hundred thousand florins;
^26 and scandalous were the abuses, if in four or five months the
amount of the salt-duty could be trebled by his judicious
economy. After thus restoring the forces and finances of the
republic, the tribune recalled the nobles from their solitary
independence; required their personal appearance in the Capitol;
and imposed an oath of allegiance to the new government, and of
submission to the laws of the good estate. Apprehensive for their
safety, but still more apprehensive of the danger of a refusal,
the princes and barons returned to their houses at Rome in the
garb of simple and peaceful citizens: the Colonna and Ursini, the
Savelli and Frangipani, were confounded before the tribunal of a
plebeian, of the vile buffoon whom they had so often derided, and
their disgrace was aggravated by the indignation which they
vainly struggled to disguise. The same oath was successively
pronounced by the several orders of society, the clergy and
gentlemen, the judges and notaries, the merchants and artisans,
and the gradual descent was marked by the increase of sincerity
and zeal. They swore to live and die with the republic and the
church, whose interest was artfully united by the nominal
association of the bishop of Orvieto, the pope's vicar, to the
office of tribune. It was the boast of Rienzi, that he had
delivered the throne and patrimony of St. Peter from a rebellious
aristocracy; and Clement the Sixth, who rejoiced in its fall,
affected to believe the professions, to applaud the merits, and
to confirm the title, of his trusty servant. The speech, perhaps
the mind, of the tribune, was inspired with a lively regard for
the purity of the faith: he insinuated his claim to a
supernatural mission from the Holy Ghost; enforced by a heavy
forfeiture the annual duty of confession and communion; and
strictly guarded the spiritual as well as temporal welfare of his
faithful people. ^27</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Et ego, Deo semper auctore, ipsa die
pristin&acirc; (leg. prim&acirc;) Tribunatus, qu&aelig; quidem
dignitas a tempore deflorati Imperii, et per annos V<sup>o</sup>
et ultra sub tyrannic&agrave; occupatione vacavit, ipsos omnes
potentes indifferenter Deum at justitiam odientes, a me&acirc;,
ymo a Dei facie fugiendo vehementi Spiritu dissipavi, et nullo
effuso cruore trementes expuli, sine ictu remanente Romane terre
facie renovat&acirc;. Libellus Tribuni ad C&aelig;sarem, p.
xxxiv. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: In one MS. I read (l. ii. c. 4, p. 409)
perfumante quatro <strong><em>solli</em></strong>, in another,
quatro <strong><em>florini</em></strong>, an important variety,
since the florin was worth ten Roman
<strong><em>solidi</em></strong>, (Muratori, dissert. xxviii.)
The former reading would give us a population of 25,000, the
latter of 250,000 families; and I much fear, that the former is
more consistent with the decay of Rome and her territory.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Hocsemius, p. 498, apud du Cer&ccedil;eau, Hist.
de Rienzi, p. 194. The fifteen tribunitian laws may be found in
the Roman historian (whom for brevity I shall name) Fortifiocca,
l. ii. c. 4.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXX: Final Settlement Of The
Ecclesiastical State. -- Part II.</em></strong></p>

<p>Never perhaps has the energy and effect of a single mind been
more remarkably felt than in the sudden, though transient,
reformation of Rome by the tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers was
converted to the discipline of a camp or convent: patient to
hear, swift to redress, inexorable to punish, his tribunal was
always accessible to the poor and stranger; nor could birth, or
dignity, or the immunities of the church, protect the offender or
his accomplices. The privileged houses, the private sanctuaries
in Rome, on which no officer of justice would presume to
trespass, were abolished; and he applied the timber and iron of
their barricades in the fortifications of the Capitol. The
venerable father of the Colonna was exposed in his own palace to
the double shame of being desirous, and of being unable, to
protect a criminal. A mule, with a jar of oil, had been stolen
near Capranica; and the lord of the Ursini family was condemned
to restore the damage, and to discharge a fine of four hundred
florins for his negligence in guarding the highways. Nor were the
persons of the barons more inviolate than their lands or houses;
and, either from accident or design, the same impartial rigor was
exercised against the heads of the adverse factions. Peter Agapet
Colonna, who had himself been senator of Rome, was arrested in
the street for injury or debt; and justice was appeased by the
tardy execution of Martin Ursini, who, among his various acts of
violence and rapine, had pillaged a shipwrecked vessel at the
mouth of the Tyber. ^28 His name, the purple of two cardinals,
his uncles, a recent marriage, and a mortal disease were
disregarded by the inflexible tribune, who had chosen his victim.
The public officers dragged him from his palace and nuptial bed:
his trial was short and satisfactory: the bell of the Capitol
convened the people: stripped of his mantle, on his knees, with
his hands bound behind his back, he heard the sentence of death;
and after a brief confession, Ursini was led away to the gallows.
After such an example, none who were conscious of guilt could
hope for impunity, and the flight of the wicked, the licentious,
and the idle, soon purified the city and territory of Rome. In
this time (says the historian,) the woods began to rejoice that
they were no longer infested with robbers; the oxen began to
plough; the pilgrims visited the sanctuaries; the roads and inns
were replenished with travellers; trade, plenty, and good faith,
were restored in the markets; and a purse of gold might be
exposed without danger in the midst of the highway. As soon as
the life and property of the subject are secure, the labors and
rewards of industry spontaneously revive: Rome was still the
metropolis of the Christian world; and the fame and fortunes of
the tribune were diffused in every country by the strangers who
had enjoyed the blessings of his government.</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Fortifiocca, l. ii. c. 11. From the account of
this shipwreck, we learn some circumstances of the trade and
navigation of the age. 1. The ship was built and freighted at
Naples for the ports of Marseilles and Avignon. 2. The sailors
were of Naples and the Isle of naria less skilful than those of
Sicily and Genoa. 3. The navigation from Marseilles was a
coasting voyage to the mouth of the Tyber, where they took
shelter in a storm; but, instead of finding the current,
unfortunately ran on a shoal: the vessel was stranded, the
mariners escaped. 4. The cargo, which was pillaged, consisted of
the revenue of Provence for the royal treasury, many bags of
pepper and cinnamon, and bales of French cloth, to the value of
20,000 florins; a rich prize.]</p>

<p>The deliverance of his country inspired Rienzi with a vast,
and perhaps visionary, idea of uniting Italy in a great
federative republic, of which Rome should be the ancient and
lawful head, and the free cities and princes the members and
associates. His pen was not less eloquent than his tongue; and
his numerous epistles were delivered to swift and trusty
messengers. On foot, with a white wand in their hand, they
traversed the forests and mountains; enjoyed, in the most hostile
states, the sacred security of ambassadors; and reported, in the
style of flattery or truth, that the highways along their passage
were lined with kneeling multitudes, who implored Heaven for the
success of their undertaking. Could passion have listened to
reason; could private interest have yielded to the public
welfare; the supreme tribunal and confederate union of the
Italian republic might have healed their intestine discord, and
closed the Alps against the Barbarians of the North. But the
propitious season had elapsed; and if Venice, Florence, Sienna,
Perugia, and many inferior cities offered their lives and
fortunes to the good estate, the tyrants of Lombardy and Tuscany
must despise, or hate, the plebeian author of a free
constitution. From them, however, and from every part of Italy,
the tribune received the most friendly and respectful answers:
they were followed by the ambassadors of the princes and
republics; and in this foreign conflux, on all the occasions of
pleasure or business, the low born notary could assume the
familiar or majestic courtesy of a sovereign. ^29 The most
glorious circumstance of his reign was an appeal to his justice
from Lewis, king of Hungary, who complained, that his brother and
her husband had been perfidiously strangled by Jane, queen of
Naples: ^30 her guilt or innocence was pleaded in a solemn trial
at Rome; but after hearing the advocates, ^31 the tribune
adjourned this weighty and invidious cause, which was soon
determined by the sword of the Hungarian. Beyond the Alps, more
especially at Avignon, the revolution was the theme of curiosity,
wonder, and applause. ^* Petrarch had been the private friend,
perhaps the secret counsellor, of Rienzi: his writings breathe
the most ardent spirit of patriotism and joy; and all respect for
the pope, all gratitude for the Colonna, was lost in the superior
duties of a Roman citizen. The poet-laureate of the Capitol
maintains the act, applauds the hero, and mingles with some
apprehension and advice, the most lofty hopes of the permanent
and rising greatness of the republic. ^32</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: It was thus that Oliver Cromwell's old
acquaintance, who remembered his vulgar and ungracious entrance
into the House of Commons, were astonished at the ease and
majesty of the protector on his throne, (See Harris's Life of
Cromwell, p. 27--34, from Clarendon Warwick, Whitelocke, Waller,
&amp;c.) The consciousness of merit and power will sometimes
elevate the manners to the station.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: See the causes, circumstances, and effects of
the death of Andrew in Giannone, (tom. iii. l. xxiii. p.
220--229,) and the Life of Petrarch (M&eacute;moires, tom. ii. p.
143--148, 245--250, 375--379, notes, p. 21--37.) The abb&eacute;
de Sade <strong><em>wishes</em></strong> to extenuate her
guilt.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: The advocate who pleaded against Jane could add
nothing to the logical force and brevity of his master's epistle.
Johanna! inordinata vita pr&aelig;cedens, retentio potestatis in
regno, neglecta vindicta, vir alter susceptus, et excusatio
subsequens, necis viri tui te probant fuisse participem et
consortem. Jane of Naples, and Mary of Scotland, have a singular
conformity.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: In his letter to the archbishop of Prague, Rienzi
thus describes the effect of his elevation on Italy and on the
world: "Did I not restore real peace among the cities which were
distracted by factions? did I not cause all the citizens, exiled
by party violence, with their wretched wives and children, to be
readmitted? had I not begun to extinguish the factious names
(scismatica nomina) of Guelf and Ghibelline, for which countless
thousands had perished body and soul, under the eyes of their
pastors, by the reduction of the city of Rome and all Italy into
one amicable, peaceful, holy, and united confederacy? the
consecrated standards and banners having been by me collected and
blended together, and, in witness to our holy association and
perfect union, offered up in the presence of the ambassadors of
all the cities of Italy, on the day of the assumption of our
Blessed Lady." p. xlvii.</p>

<p>In the Libellus ad C&aelig;sarem: "I received the homage and
submission of all the sovereigns of Apulia, the barons and
counts, and almost all the people of Italy. I was honored by
solemn embassies and letters by the emperor of Constantinople and
the king of England. The queen of Naples submitted herself and
her kingdom to the protection of the tribune. The king of
Hungary, by two solemn embassies, brought his cause against his
queen and his nobles before my tribunal; and I venture to say
further, that the fame of the tribune alarmed the soldan of
Babylon. When the Christian pilgrims to the sepulchre of our Lord
related to the Christian and Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem all
the yet unheard-of and wonderful circumstances of the reformation
in Rome, both Jews and Christians celebrated the event with
unusual festivities. When the soldan inquired the cause of these
rejoicings, and received this intelligence about Rome, he ordered
all the havens and cities on the coast to be fortified, and put
in a state of defence," p. xxxv. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: See the Epistola Hortatoria de Capessenda
Republica, from Petrarch to Nicholas Rienzi, (Opp. p. 535--540,)
and the vth eclogue or pastoral, a perpetual and obscure
allegory.]</p>

<p>While Petrarch indulged these prophetic visions, the Roman
hero was fast declining from the meridian of fame and power; and
the people, who had gazed with astonishment on the ascending
meteor, began to mark the irregularity of its course, and the
vicissitudes of light and obscurity. More eloquent than
judicious, more enterprising than resolute, the faculties of
Rienzi were not balanced by cool and commanding reason: he
magnified in a tenfold proportion the objects of hope and fear;
and prudence, which could not have erected, did not presume to
fortify, his throne. In the blaze of prosperity, his virtues were
insensibly tinctured with the adjacent vices; justice with
cruelly, cruelty, liberality with profusion, and the desire of
fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity. ^* He might have
learned, that the ancient tribunes, so strong and sacred in the
public opinion, were not distinguished in style, habit, or
appearance, from an ordinary plebeian; ^33 and that as often as
they visited the city on foot, a single viator, or beadle,
attended the exercise of their office. The Gracchi would have
frowned or smiled, could they have read the sonorous titles and
epithets of their successor, "Nicholas, severe and merciful;
deliverer of Rome; defender of Italy; ^34 friend of mankind, and
of liberty, peace, and justice; tribune august:" his theatrical
pageants had prepared the revolution; but Rienzi abused, in
luxury and pride, the political maxim of speaking to the eyes, as
well as the understanding, of the multitude. From nature he had
received the gift of a handsome person, ^35 till it was swelled
and disfigured by intemperance: and his propensity to laughter
was corrected in the magistrate by the affectation of gravity and
sternness. He was clothed, at least on public occasions, in a
party-colored robe of velvet or satin, lined with fur, and
embroidered with gold: the rod of justice, which he carried in
his hand, was a sceptre of polished steel, crowned with a globe
and cross of gold, and enclosing a small fragment of the true and
holy wood. In his civil and religious processions through the
city, he rode on a white steed, the symbol of royalty: the great
banner of the republic, a sun with a circle of stars, a dove with
an olive branch, was displayed over his head; a shower of gold
and silver was scattered among the populace, fifty guards with
halberds encompassed his person; a troop of horse preceded his
march; and their tymbals and trumpets were of massy silver.</p>

<p>[Footnote *: An illustrious female writer has drawn, with a
single stroke, the character of Rienzi, Crescentius, and Arnold
of Brescia, the fond restorers of Roman liberty: 'Qui ont pris
les souvenirs pour les esp&eacute;rances.' Corinne, tom. i. p.
159. Could Tacitus have excelled this?" Hallam, vol i p. 418. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: In his Roman Questions, Plutarch (Opuscul. tom.
i. p. 505, 506, edit. Gr&aelig;c. Hen. Steph.) states, on the
most constitutional principles, the simple greatness of the
tribunes, who were not properly magistrates, but a check on
magistracy. It was their duty and interest omoiousqai schmati,
kai stolh kai diaithtoiV epitugcanousi tvn politvn . . . .
katapateisqai dei (a saying of C. Curio) kai mh semnon einai th
oyei mhde dusprosodon . . . osw de mallon ektapeinoutai tv
swmati, tosoutw mallon auxetai th dunamei, &amp;c. Rienzi, and
Petrarch himself, were incapable perhaps of reading a Greek
philosopher; but they might have imbibed the same modest
doctrines from their favorite Latins, Livy and Valerius
Maximus.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: I could not express in English the forcible,
though barbarous, title of <strong><em>Zelator</em></strong>
Itali&aelig;, which Rienzi assumed.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: Era bell' homo, (l. ii. c. l. p. 399.) It is
remarkable, that the riso sarcastico of the Bracciano edition is
wanting in the Roman MS., from which Muratori has given the text.
In his second reign, when he is painted almost as a monster,
Rienzi travea una ventresca tonna trionfale, a modo de uno Abbate
Asiano, or Asinino, (l. iii. c. 18, p. 523.)]</p>

<p>The ambition of the honors of chivalry ^36 betrayed the
meanness of his birth, and degraded the importance of his office;
and the equestrian tribune was not less odious to the nobles,
whom he adopted, than to the plebeians, whom he deserted. All
that yet remained of treasure, or luxury, or art, was exhausted
on that solemn day. Rienzi led the procession from the Capitol to
the Lateran; the tediousness of the way was relieved with
decorations and games; the ecclesiastical, civil, and military
orders marched under their various banners; the Roman ladies
attended his wife; and the ambassadors of Italy might loudly
applaud or secretly deride the novelty of the pomp. In the
evening, which they had reached the church and palace of
Constantine, he thanked and dismissed the numerous assembly, with
an invitation to the festival of the ensuing day. From the hands
of a venerable knight he received the order of the Holy Ghost;
the purification of the bath was a previous ceremony; but in no
step of his life did Rienzi excite such scandal and censure as by
the profane use of the porphyry vase, in which Constantine (a
foolish legend) had been healed of his leprosy by Pope Sylvester.
^37 With equal presumption the tribune watched or reposed within
the consecrated precincts of the baptistery; and the failure of
his state-bed was interpreted as an omen of his approaching
downfall. At the hour of worship, he showed himself to the
returning crowds in a majestic attitude, with a robe of purple,
his sword, and gilt spurs; but the holy rites were soon
interrupted by his levity and insolence. Rising from his throne,
and advancing towards the congregation, he proclaimed in a loud
voice: "We summon to our tribunal Pope Clement: and command him
to reside in his diocese of Rome: we also summon the sacred
college of cardinals. ^38 We again summon the two pretenders,
Charles of Bohemia and Lewis of Bavaria, who style themselves
emperors: we likewise summon all the electors of Germany, to
inform us on what pretence they have usurped the inalienable
right of the Roman people, the ancient and lawful sovereigns of
the empire." ^39 Unsheathing his maiden sword, he thrice
brandished it to the three parts of the world, and thrice
repeated the extravagant declaration, "And this too is mine!" The
pope's vicar, the bishop of Orvieto, attempted to check this
career of folly; but his feeble protest was silenced by martial
music; and instead of withdrawing from the assembly, he consented
to dine with his brother tribune, at a table which had hitherto
been reserved for the supreme pontiff. A banquet, such as the
C&aelig;sars had given, was prepared for the Romans. The
apartments, porticos, and courts of the Lateran were spread with
innumerable tables for either sex, and every condition; a stream
of wine flowed from the nostrils of Constantine's brazen horse;
no complaint, except of the scarcity of water, could be heard;
and the licentiousness of the multitude was curbed by discipline
and fear. A subsequent day was appointed for the coronation of
Rienzi; ^40 seven crowns of different leaves or metals were
successively placed on his head by the most eminent of the Roman
clergy; they represented the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost; and
he still professed to imitate the example of the ancient
tribunes. ^* These extraordinary spectacles might deceive or
flatter the people; and their own vanity was gratified in the
vanity of their leader. But in his private life he soon deviated
from the strict rule of frugality and abstinence; and the
plebeians, who were awed by the splendor of the nobles, were
provoked by the luxury of their equal. His wife, his son, his
uncle, (a barber in name and profession,) exposed the contrast of
vulgar manners and princely expense; and without acquiring the
majesty, Rienzi degenerated into the vices, of a king.</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: Strange as it may seem, this festival was not
without a precedent. In the year 1327, two barons, a Colonna and
an Ursini, the usual balance, were created knights by the Roman
people: their bath was of rose-water, their beds were decked with
royal magnificence, and they were served at St. Maria of Araceli
in the Capitol, by the twenty-eight <strong><em>buoni
huomini</em></strong>. They afterwards received from Robert, king
of Naples, the sword of chivalry, (Hist. Rom. l. i. c. 2, p.
259.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: All parties believed in the leprosy and bath of
Constantine (Petrarch. Epist. Famil. vi. 2,) and Rienzi justified
his own conduct by observing to the court of Avignon, that a vase
which had been used by a Pagan could not be profaned by a pious
Christian. Yet this crime is specified in the bull of
excommunication, (Hocsemius, apud du Cer&ccedil;eau, p. 189,
190.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: This <strong><em>verbal</em></strong> summons of
Pope Clement VI., which rests on the authority of the Roman
historian and a Vatican MS., is disputed by the biographer of
Petrarch, (tom. ii. not. p. 70--76, with arguments rather of
decency than of weight. The court of Avignon might not choose to
agitate this delicate question.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: The summons of the two rival emperors, a
monument of freedom and folly, is extant in Hocsemius,
(Cer&ccedil;eau, p. 163--166.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: It is singular, that the Roman historian should
have overlooked this sevenfold coronation, which is sufficiently
proved by internal evidence, and the testimony of Hocsemius, and
even of Rienzi, (Cercean p. 167--170, 229.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: It was on this occasion that he made the profane
comparison between himself and our Lord; and the striking
circumstance took place which he relates in his letter to the
archbishop of Prague. In the midst of all the wild and joyous
exultation of the people, one of his most zealous supporters, a
monk, who was in high repute for his sanctity, stood apart in a
corner of the church and wept bitterly! A domestic chaplain of
Rienzi's inquired the cause of his grief. "Now," replied the man
of God, "is thy master cast down from heaven -- never saw I man
so proud. By the aid of the Holy Ghost he has driven the tyrants
from the city without drawing a sword; the cities and the
sovereigns of Italy have submitted to his power. Why is he so
arrogant and ungrateful towards the Most High? Why does he seek
earthly and transitory rewards for his labors, and in his wanton
speech liken himself to the Creator? Tell thy master that he can
only atone for this offence by tears of penitence." In the
evening the chaplain communicated this solemn rebuke to the
tribune: it appalled him for the time, but was soon forgotten in
the tumult and hurry of business. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>A simple citizen describes with pity, or perhaps with
pleasure, the humiliation of the barons of Rome. "Bareheaded,
their hands crossed on their breast, they stood with downcast
looks in the presence of the tribune; and they trembled, good
God, how they trembled!" ^41 As long as the yoke of Rienzi was
that of justice and their country, their conscience forced them
to esteem the man, whom pride and interest provoked them to hate:
his extravagant conduct soon fortified their hatred by contempt;
and they conceived the hope of subverting a power which was no
longer so deeply rooted in the public confidence. The old
animosity of the Colonna and Ursini was suspended for a moment by
their common disgrace: they associated their wishes, and perhaps
their designs; an assassin was seized and tortured; he accused
the nobles; and as soon as Rienzi deserved the fate, he adopted
the suspicions and maxims, of a tyrant. On the same day, under
various pretences, he invited to the Capitol his principal
enemies, among whom were five members of the Ursini and three of
the Colonna name. But instead of a council or a banquet, they
found themselves prisoners under the sword of despotism or
justice; and the consciousness of innocence or guilt might
inspire them with equal apprehensions of danger. At the sound of
the great bell the people assembled; they were arraigned for a
conspiracy against the tribune's life; and though some might
sympathize in their distress, not a hand, nor a voice, was raised
to rescue the first of the nobility from their impending doom.
Their apparent boldness was prompted by despair; they passed in
separate chambers a sleepless and painful night; and the
venerable hero, Stephen Colonna, striking against the door of his
prison, repeatedly urged his guards to deliver him by a speedy
death from such ignominious servitude. In the morning they
understood their sentence from the visit of a confessor and the
tolling of the bell. The great hall of the Capitol had been
decorated for the bloody scene with red and white hangings: the
countenance of the tribune was dark and severe; the swords of the
executioners were unsheathed; and the barons were interrupted in
their dying speeches by the sound of trumpets. But in this
decisive moment, Rienzi was not less anxious or apprehensive than
his captives: he dreaded the splendor of their names, their
surviving kinsmen, the inconstancy of the people the reproaches
of the world, and, after rashly offering a mortal injury, he
vainly presumed that, if he could forgive, he might himself be
forgiven. His elaborate oration was that of a Christian and a
suppliant; and, as the humble minister of the commons, he
entreated his masters to pardon these noble criminals, for whose
repentance and future service he pledged his faith and authority.
"If you are spared," said the tribune, "by the mercy of the
Romans, will you not promise to support the good estate with your
lives and fortunes?" Astonished by this marvellous clemency, the
barons bowed their heads; and while they devoutly repeated the
oath of allegiance, might whisper a secret, and more sincere,
assurance of revenge. A priest, in the name of the people,
pronounced their absolution: they received the communion with the
tribune, assisted at the banquet, followed the procession; and,
after every spiritual and temporal sign of reconciliation, were
dismissed in safety to their respective homes, with the new
honors and titles of generals, consuls, and patricians. ^42</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Puoi se faceva stare denante a se, mentre
sedeva, li baroni tutti in piedi ritti co le vraccia piecate, e
co li capucci tratti. Deh como stavano paurosi! (Hist. Rom. l.
ii. c. 20, p. 439.) He saw them, and we see them.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: The original letter, in which Rienzi justifies
his treatment of the Colonna, (Hocsemius, apud du Cer&ccedil;eau,
p. 222--229,) displays, in genuine colors, the mixture of the
knave and the madman.]</p>

<p>During some weeks they were checked by the memory of their
danger, rather than of their deliverance, till the most powerful
of the Ursini, escaping with the Colonna from the city, erected
at Marino the standard of rebellion. The fortifications of the
castle were instantly restored; the vassals attended their lord;
the outlaws armed against the magistrate; the flocks and herds,
the harvests and vineyards, from Marino to the gates of Rome,
were swept away or destroyed; and the people arraigned Rienzi as
the author of the calamities which his government had taught them
to forget. In the camp, Rienzi appeared to less advantage than in
the rostrum; and he neglected the progress of the rebel barons
till their numbers were strong, and their castles impregnable.
From the pages of Livy he had not imbibed the art, or even the
courage, of a general: an army of twenty thousand Romans returned
without honor or effect from the attack of Marino; and his
vengeance was amused by painting his enemies, their heads
downwards, and drowning two dogs (at least they should have been
bears) as the representatives of the Ursini. The belief of his
incapacity encouraged their operations: they were invited by
their secret adherents; and the barons attempted, with four
thousand foot, and sixteen hundred horse, to enter Rome by force
or surprise. The city was prepared for their reception; the
alarm-bell rung all night; the gates were strictly guarded, or
insolently open; and after some hesitation they sounded a
retreat. The two first divisions had passed along the walls, but
the prospect of a free entrance tempted the headstrong valor of
the nobles in the rear; and after a successful skirmish, they
were overthrown and massacred without quarter by the crowds of
the Roman people. Stephen Colonna the younger, the noble spirit
to whom Petrarch ascribed the restoration of Italy, was preceded
or accompanied in death by his son John, a gallant youth, by his
brother Peter, who might regret the ease and honors of the
church, by a nephew of legitimate birth, and by two bastards of
the Colonna race; and the number of seven, the seven crowns, as
Rienzi styled them, of the Holy Ghost, was completed by the agony
of the deplorable parent, and the veteran chief, who had survived
the hope and fortune of his house. The vision and prophecies of
St. Martin and Pope Boniface had been used by the tribune to
animate his troops: ^43 he displayed, at least in the pursuit,
the spirit of a hero; but he forgot the maxims of the ancient
Romans, who abhorred the triumphs of civil war. The conqueror
ascended the Capitol; deposited his crown and sceptre on the
altar; and boasted, with some truth, that he had cut off an ear,
which neither pope nor emperor had been able to amputate. ^44 His
base and implacable revenge denied the honors of burial; and the
bodies of the Colonna, which he threatened to expose with those
of the vilest malefactors, were secretly interred by the holy
virgins of their name and family. ^45 The people sympathized in
their grief, repented of their own fury, and detested the
indecent joy of Rienzi, who visited the spot where these
illustrious victims had fallen. It was on that fatal spot that he
conferred on his son the honor of knighthood: and the ceremony
was accomplished by a slight blow from each of the horsemen of
the guard, and by a ridiculous and inhuman ablution from a pool
of water, which was yet polluted with patrician blood. ^46</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: Rienzi, in the above-mentioned letter, ascribes
to St. Martin the tribune, Boniface VIII. the enemy of Colonna,
himself, and the Roman people, the glory of the day, which
Villani likewise (l. 12, c. 104) describes as a regular battle.
The disorderly skirmish, the flight of the Romans, and the
cowardice of Rienzi, are painted in the simple and minute
narrative of Fortifiocca, or the anonymous citizen, (l. i. c.
34--37.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: In describing the fall of the Colonna, I speak
only of the family of Stephen the elder, who is often confounded
by the P. du Cer&ccedil;eau with his son. That family was
extinguished, but the house has been perpetuated in the
collateral branches, of which I have not a very accurate
knowledge. Circumspice (says Petrarch) famili&aelig; tu&aelig;
statum, Columniensium <strong><em>domos</em></strong>: solito
pauciores habeat columnas. Quid ad rem modo fundamentum stabile,
solidumque permaneat.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: The convent of St. Silvester was founded,
endowed, and protected by the Colonna cardinals, for the
daughters of the family who embraced a monastic life, and who, in
the year 1318, were twelve in number. The others were allowed to
marry with their kinsmen in the fourth degree, and the
dispensation was justified by the small number and close
alliances of the noble families of Rome, (M&eacute;moires sur
P&eacute;trarque, tom. i. p. 110, tom. ii. p. 401.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Petrarch wrote a stiff and pedantic letter of
consolation, (Fam. l. vii. epist. 13, p. 682, 683.) The friend
was lost in the patriot. Nulla toto orbe principum familia
carior; carior tamen respublica, carior Roma, carior Italia.</p>

<p>Je rends graces aux Dieux de n'&ecirc;tre pas Romain.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>A short delay would have saved the Colonna, the delay of a
single month, which elapsed between the triumph and the exile of
Rienzi. In the pride of victory, he forfeited what yet remained
of his civil virtues, without acquiring the fame of military
prowess. A free and vigorous opposition was formed in the city;
and when the tribune proposed in the public council ^47 to impose
a new tax, and to regulate the government of Perugia, thirty-nine
members voted against his measures; repelled the injurious charge
of treachery and corruption; and urged him to prove, by their
forcible exclusion, that if the populace adhered to his cause, it
was already disclaimed by the most respectable citizens. The pope
and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious
professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his
conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some
fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a
bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from
his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege,
and heresy. ^48 The surviving barons of Rome were now humbled to
a sense of allegiance; their interest and revenge engaged them in
the service of the church; but as the fate of the Colonna was
before their eyes, they abandoned to a private adventurer the
peril and glory of the revolution. John Pepin, count of
Minorbino, ^49 in the kingdom of Naples, had been condemned for
his crimes, or his riches, to perpetual imprisonment; and
Petrarch, by soliciting his release, indirectly contributed to
the ruin of his friend. At the head of one hundred and fifty
soldiers, the count of Minorbino introduced himself into Rome;
barricaded the quarter of the Colonna: and found the enterprise
as easy as it had seemed impossible. From the first alarm, the
bell of the Capitol incessantly tolled; but, instead of repairing
to the well-known sound, the people were silent and inactive; and
the pusillanimous Rienzi, deploring their ingratitude with sighs
and tears, abdicated the government and palace of the
republic.</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: This council and opposition is obscurely
mentioned by Pollistore, a contemporary writer, who has preserved
some curious and original facts, (Rer. Italicarum, tom. xxv. c.
31, p. 798--804.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: The briefs and bulls of Clement VI. against
Rienzi are translated by the P. du Cer&ccedil;eau, (p. 196, 232,)
from the Ecclesiastical Annals of Odericus Raynaldus, (A.D. 1347,
No. 15, 17, 21, &amp;c.,) who found them in the archives of the
Vatican.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: Matteo Villani describes the origin, character,
and death of this count of Minorbino, a man da natura inconstante
e senza fede, whose grandfather, a crafty notary, was enriched
and ennobled by the spoils of the Saracens of Nocera, (l. vii. c.
102, 103.) See his imprisonment, and the efforts of Petrarch,
tom. ii. p. 149--151.)]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXX: Final Settlement Of The
Ecclesiastical State. -- Part III.</em></strong></p>

<p>Without drawing his sword, count Pepin restored the
aristocracy and the church; three senators were chosen, and the
legate, assuming the first rank, accepted his two colleagues from
the rival families of Colonna and Ursini. The acts of the tribune
were abolished, his head was proscribed; yet such was the terror
of his name, that the barons hesitated three days before they
would trust themselves in the city, and Rienzi was left above a
month in the castle of St. Angelo, from whence he peaceably
withdrew, after laboring, without effect, to revive the affection
and courage of the Romans. The vision of freedom and empire had
vanished: their fallen spirit would have acquiesced in servitude,
had it been smoothed by tranquillity and order; and it was
scarcely observed, that the new senators derived their authority
from the Apostolic See; that four cardinals were appointed to
reform, with dictatorial power, the state of the republic. Rome
was again agitated by the bloody feuds of the barons, who
detested each other, and despised the commons: their hostile
fortresses, both in town and country, again rose, and were again
demolished: and the peaceful citizens, a flock of sheep, were
devoured, says the Florentine historian, by these rapacious
wolves. But when their pride and avarice had exhausted the
patience of the Romans, a confraternity of the Virgin Mary
protected or avenged the republic: the bell of the Capitol was
again tolled, the nobles in arms trembled in the presence of an
unarmed multitude; and of the two senators, Colonna escaped from
the window of the palace, and Ursini was stoned at the foot of
the altar. The dangerous office of tribune was successively
occupied by two plebeians, Cerroni and Baroncelli. The mildness
of Cerroni was unequal to the times; and after a faint struggle,
he retired with a fair reputation and a decent fortune to the
comforts of rural life. Devoid of eloquence or genius, Baroncelli
was distinguished by a resolute spirit: he spoke the language of
a patriot, and trod in the footsteps of tyrants; his suspicion
was a sentence of death, and his own death was the reward of his
cruelties. Amidst the public misfortunes, the faults of Rienzi
were forgotten; and the Romans sighed for the peace and
prosperity of their good estate. ^50</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: The troubles of Rome, from the departure to the
return of Rienzi, are related by Matteo Villani (l. ii. c. 47, l.
iii. c. 33, 57, 78) and Thomas Fortifiocca, (l. iii. c. 1--4.) I
have slightly passed over these secondary characters, who
imitated the original tribune.]</p>

<p>After an exile of seven years, the first deliverer was again
restored to his country. In the disguise of a monk or a pilgrim,
he escaped from the castle of St. Angelo, implored the friendship
of the king of Hungary at Naples, tempted the ambition of every
bold adventurer, mingled at Rome with the pilgrims of the
jubilee, lay concealed among the hermits of the Apennine, and
wandered through the cities of Italy, Germany, and Bohemia. His
person was invisible, his name was yet formidable; and the
anxiety of the court of Avignon supposes, and even magnifies, his
personal merit. The emperor Charles the Fourth gave audience to a
stranger, who frankly revealed himself as the tribune of the
republic; and astonished an assembly of ambassadors and princes,
by the eloquence of a patriot and the visions of a prophet, the
downfall of tyranny and the kingdom of the Holy Ghost. ^51
Whatever had been his hopes, Rienzi found himself a captive; but
he supported a character of independence and dignity, and obeyed,
as his own choice, the irresistible summons of the supreme
pontiff. The zeal of Petrarch, which had been cooled by the
unworthy conduct, was rekindled by the sufferings and the
presence, of his friend; and he boldly complains of the times, in
which the savior of Rome was delivered by her emperor into the
hands of her bishop. Rienzi was transported slowly, but in safe
custody, from Prague to Avignon: his entrance into the city was
that of a malefactor; in his prison he was chained by the leg;
and four cardinals were named to inquire into the crimes of
heresy and rebellion. But his trial and condemnation would have
involved some questions, which it was more prudent to leave under
the veil of mystery: the temporal supremacy of the popes; the
duty of residence; the civil and ecclesiastical privileges of the
clergy and people of Rome. The reigning pontiff well deserved the
appellation of <strong><em>Clement</em></strong>: the strange
vicissitudes and magnanimous spirit of the captive excited his
pity and esteem; and Petrarch believes that he respected in the
hero the name and sacred character of a poet. ^52 Rienzi was
indulged with an easy confinement and the use of books; and in
the assiduous study of Livy and the Bible, he sought the cause
and the consolation of his misfortunes.</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: These visions, of which the friends and enemies
of Rienzi seem alike ignorant, are surely magnified by the zeal
of Pollistore, a Dominican inquisitor, (Rer. Ital. tom. xxv. c.
36, p. 819.) Had the tribune taught, that Christ was succeeded by
the Holy Ghost, that the tyranny of the pope would be abolished,
he might have been convicted of heresy and treason, without
offending the Roman people. *</p>

<p>Note: * So far from having magnified these visions, Pollistore
is more than confirmed by the documents published by Papencordt.
The adoption of all the wild doctrines of the Fratricelli, the
Spirituals, in which, for the time at least, Rienzi appears to
have been in earnest; his magnificent offers to the emperor, and
the whole history of his life, from his first escape from Rome to
his imprisonment at Avignon, are among the most curious chapters
of his eventful life. -- M. 1845.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: The astonishment, the envy almost, of Petrarch
is a proof, if not of the truth of this incredible fact, at least
of his own veracity. The abb&eacute; de Sade (M&eacute;moires,
tom. iii. p. 242) quotes the vith epistle of the xiiith book of
Petrarch, but it is of the royal MS., which he consulted, and not
of the ordinary Basil edition, (p. 920.)]</p>

<p>The succeeding pontificate of Innocent the Sixth opened a new
prospect of his deliverance and restoration; and the court of
Avignon was persuaded, that the successful rebel could alone
appease and reform the anarchy of the metropolis. After a solemn
profession of fidelity, the Roman tribune was sent into Italy,
with the title of senator; but the death of Baroncelli appeared
to supersede the use of his mission; and the legate, Cardinal
Albornoz, ^53 a consummate statesman, allowed him with
reluctance, and without aid, to undertake the perilous
experiment. His first reception was equal to his wishes: the day
of his entrance was a public festival; and his eloquence and
authority revived the laws of the good estate. But this momentary
sunshine was soon clouded by his own vices and those of the
people: in the Capitol, he might often regret the prison of
Avignon; and after a second administration of four months, Rienzi
was massacred in a tumult which had been fomented by the Roman
barons. In the society of the Germans and Bohemians, he is said
to have contracted the habits of intemperance and cruelty:
adversity had chilled his enthusiasm, without fortifying his
reason or virtue; and that youthful hope, that lively assurance,
which is the pledge of success, was now succeeded by the cold
impotence of distrust and despair. The tribune had reigned with
absolute dominion, by the choice, and in the hearts, of the
Romans: the senator was the servile minister of a foreign court;
and while he was suspected by the people, he was abandoned by the
prince. The legate Albornoz, who seemed desirous of his ruin,
inflexibly refused all supplies of men and money; a faithful
subject could no longer presume to touch the revenues of the
apostolical chamber; and the first idea of a tax was the signal
of clamor and sedition. Even his justice was tainted with the
guilt or reproach of selfish cruelty: the most virtuous citizen
of Rome was sacrificed to his jealousy; and in the execution of a
public robber, from whose purse he had been assisted, the
magistrate too much forgot, or too much remembered, the
obligations of the debtor. ^54 A civil war exhausted his
treasures, and the patience of the city: the Colonna maintained
their hostile station at Palestrina; and his mercenaries soon
despised a leader whose ignorance and fear were envious of all
subordinate merit. In the death, as in the life, of Rienzi, the
hero and the coward were strangely mingled. When the Capitol was
invested by a furious multitude, when he was basely deserted by
his civil and military servants, the intrepid senator, waving the
banner of liberty, presented himself on the balcony, addressed
his eloquence to the various passions of the Romans, and labored
to persuade them, that in the same cause himself and the republic
must either stand or fall. His oration was interrupted by a
volley of imprecations and stones; and after an arrow had
transpierced his hand, he sunk into abject despair, and fled
weeping to the inner chambers, from whence he was let down by a
sheet before the windows of the prison. Destitute of aid or hope,
he was besieged till the evening: the doors of the Capitol were
destroyed with axes and fire; and while the senator attempted to
escape in a plebeian habit, he was discovered and dragged to the
platform of the palace, the fatal scene of his judgments and
executions. A whole hour, without voice or motion, he stood
amidst the multitude half naked and half dead: their rage was
hushed into curiosity and wonder: the last feelings of reverence
and compassion yet struggled in his favor; and they might have
prevailed, if a bold assassin had not plunged a dagger in his
breast. He fell senseless with the first stroke: the impotent
revenge of his enemies inflicted a thousand wounds: and the
senator's body was abandoned to the dogs, to the Jews, and to the
flames. Posterity will compare the virtues and failings of this
extraordinary man; but in a long period of anarchy and servitude,
the name of Rienzi has often been celebrated as the deliverer of
his country, and the last of the Roman patriots. ^55</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: &AElig;gidius, or Giles Albornoz, a noble
Spaniard, archbishop of Toledo, and cardinal legate in Italy,
(A.D. 1353--1367,) restored, by his arms and counsels, the
temporal dominion of the popes. His life has been separately
written by Sepulveda; but Dryden could not reasonably suppose,
that his name, or that of Wolsey, had reached the ears of the
Mufti in Don Sebastian.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: From Matteo Villani and Fortifiocca, the P. du
Cer&ccedil;eau (p. 344--394) has extracted the life and death of
the chevalier Montreal, the life of a robber and the death of a
hero. At the head of a free company, the first that desolated
Italy, he became rich and formidable be had money in all the
banks, -- 60,000 ducats in Padua alone.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: The exile, second government, and death of
Rienzi, are minutely related by the anonymous Roman, who appears
neither his friend nor his enemy, (l. iii. c. 12--25.) Petrarch,
who loved the <strong><em>tribune</em></strong>, was indifferent
to the fate of the <strong><em>senator</em></strong>.]</p>

<p>The first and most generous wish of Petrarch was the
restoration of a free republic; but after the exile and death of
his plebeian hero, he turned his eyes from the tribune, to the
king, of the Romans. The Capitol was yet stained with the blood
of Rienzi, when Charles the Fourth descended from the Alps to
obtain the Italian and Imperial crowns. In his passage through
Milan he received the visit, and repaid the flattery, of the
poet-laureate; accepted a medal of Augustus; and promised,
without a smile, to imitate the founder of the Roman monarchy. A
false application of the name and maxims of antiquity was the
source of the hopes and disappointments of Petrarch; yet he could
not overlook the difference of times and characters; the
immeasurable distance between the first C&aelig;sars and a
Bohemian prince, who by the favor of the clergy had been elected
the titular head of the German aristocracy. Instead of restoring
to Rome her glory and her provinces, he had bound himself by a
secret treaty with the pope, to evacuate the city on the day of
his coronation; and his shameful retreat was pursued by the
reproaches of the patriot bard. ^56</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: The hopes and the disappointment of Petrarch are
agreeably described in his own words by the French biographer,
(M&eacute;moires, tom. iii. p. 375--413;) but the deep, though
secret, wound was the coronation of Zanubi, the poet-laureate, by
Charles IV.]</p>

<p>After the loss of liberty and empire, his third and more
humble wish was to reconcile the shepherd with his flock; to
recall the Roman bishop to his ancient and peculiar diocese. In
the fervor of youth, with the authority of age, Petrarch
addressed his exhortations to five successive popes, and his
eloquence was always inspired by the enthusiasm of sentiment and
the freedom of language. ^57 The son of a citizen of Florence
invariably preferred the country of his birth to that of his
education; and Italy, in his eyes, was the queen and garden of
the world. Amidst her domestic factions, she was doubtless
superior to France both in art and science, in wealth and
politeness; but the difference could scarcely support the epithet
of barbarous, which he promiscuously bestows on the countries
beyond the Alps. Avignon, the mystic Babylon, the sink of vice
and corruption, was the object of his hatred and contempt; but he
forgets that her scandalous vices were not the growth of the
soil, and that in every residence they would adhere to the power
and luxury of the papal court. He confesses that the successor of
St. Peter is the bishop of the universal church; yet it was not
on the banks of the Rh&ocirc;ne, but of the Tyber, that the
apostle had fixed his everlasting throne; and while every city in
the Christian world was blessed with a bishop, the metropolis
alone was desolate and forlorn. Since the removal of the Holy
See, the sacred buildings of the Lateran and the Vatican, their
altars and their saints, were left in a state of poverty and
decay; and Rome was often painted under the image of a
disconsolate matron, as if the wandering husband could be
reclaimed by the homely portrait of the age and infirmities of
his weeping spouse. ^58 But the cloud which hung over the seven
hills would be dispelled by the presence of their lawful
sovereign: eternal fame, the prosperity of Rome, and the peace of
Italy, would be the recompense of the pope who should dare to
embrace this generous resolution. Of the five whom Petrarch
exhorted, the three first, John the Twenty-second, Benedict the
Twelfth, and Clement the Sixth, were importuned or amused by the
boldness of the orator; but the memorable change which had been
attempted by Urban the Fifth was finally accomplished by Gregory
the Eleventh. The execution of their design was opposed by
weighty and almost insuperable obstacles. A king of France, who
has deserved the epithet of wise, was unwilling to release them
from a local dependence: the cardinals, for the most part his
subjects, were attached to the language, manners, and climate of
Avignon; to their stately palaces; above all, to the wines of
Burgundy. In their eyes, Italy was foreign or hostile; and they
reluctantly embarked at Marseilles, as if they had been sold or
banished into the land of the Saracens. Urban the Fifth resided
three years in the Vatican with safety and honor: his sanctity
was protected by a guard of two thousand horse; and the king of
Cyprus, the queen of Naples, and the emperors of the East and
West, devoutly saluted their common father in the chair of St.
Peter. But the joy of Petrarch and the Italians was soon turned
into grief and indignation. Some reasons of public or private
moment, his own impatience or the prayers of the cardinals,
recalled Urban to France; and the approaching election was saved
from the tyrannic patriotism of the Romans. The powers of heaven
were interested in their cause: Bridget of Sweden, a saint and
pilgrim, disapproved the return, and foretold the death, of Urban
the Fifth: the migration of Gregory the Eleventh was encouraged
by St. Catharine of Sienna, the spouse of Christ and ambassadress
of the Florentines; and the popes themselves, the great masters
of human credulity, appear to have listened to these visionary
females. ^59 Yet those celestial admonitions were supported by
some arguments of temporal policy. The residents of Avignon had
been invaded by hostile violence: at the head of thirty thousand
robbers, a hero had extorted ransom and absolution from the vicar
of Christ and the sacred college; and the maxim of the French
warriors, to spare the people and plunder the church, was a new
heresy of the most dangerous import. ^60 While the pope was
driven from Avignon, he was strenuously invited to Rome. The
senate and people acknowledged him as their lawful sovereign, and
laid at his feet the keys of the gates, the bridges, and the
fortresses; of the quarter at least beyond the Tyber. ^61 But
this loyal offer was accompanied by a declaration, that they
could no longer suffer the scandal and calamity of his absence;
and that his obstinacy would finally provoke them to revive and
assert the primitive right of election. The abbot of Mount Cassin
had been consulted, whether he would accept the triple crown ^62
from the clergy and people: "I am a citizen of Rome," ^63 replied
that venerable ecclesiastic, "and my first law is, the voice of
my country." ^64</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: See, in his accurate and amusing biographer, the
application of Petrarch and Rome to Benedict XII. in the year
1334, (M&eacute;moires, tom. i. p. 261--265,) to Clement VI. in
1342, (tom. ii. p. 45--47,) and to Urban V. in 1366, (tom. iii.
p. 677--691:) his praise (p. 711--715) and excuse (p. 771) of the
last of these pontiffs. His angry controversy on the respective
merits of France and Italy may be found, Opp. p. 1068--1085.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 58:</p>

<p>Squalida sed quoniam facies, neglectaque cult&ucirc;</p>

<p>C&aelig;saries; multisque malis lassata senectus</p>

<p>Eripuit solitam effigiem: vetus accipe nomen;</p>

<p>Roma vocor. (Carm. l. 2, p. 77.)</p>

<p>He spins this allegory beyond all measure or patience. The
Epistles to Urban V in prose are more simple and persuasive,
(Senilium, l. vii. p. 811--827 l. ix. epist. i. p.
844--854.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: I have not leisure to expatiate on the legends
of St. Bridget or St. Catharine, the last of which might furnish
some amusing stories. Their effect on the mind of Gregory XI. is
attested by the last solemn words of the dying pope, who
admonished the assistants, ut caverent ab hominibus, sive viris,
sive mulieribus, sub specie religionis loquentibus visiones sui
capitis, quia per tales ipse seductus, &amp;c., (Baluz. Not ad
Vit. Pap. Avenionensium, tom. i. p. 1224.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: This predatory expedition is related by
Froissard, (Chronique, tom. i. p. 230,) and in the life of Du
Guesclin, (Collection G&eacute;n&eacute;rale des M&eacute;moires
Historiques, tom. iv. c. 16, p. 107--113.) As early as the year
1361, the court of Avignon had been molested by similar
freebooters, who afterwards passed the Alps, (M&eacute;moires sur
P&eacute;trarque, tom. iii. p. 563--569.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: Fleury alleges, from the annals of Odericus
Raynaldus, the original treaty which was signed the 21st of
December, 1376, between Gregory XI. and the Romans, (Hist.
Eccl&eacute;s. tom. xx. p. 275.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: The first crown or regnum (Ducange, Gloss.
Latin. tom. v. p. 702) on the episcopal mitre of the popes, is
ascribed to the gift of Constantine, or Clovis. The second was
added by Boniface VIII., as the emblem not only of a spiritual,
but of a temporal, kingdom. The three states of the church are
represented by the triple crown which was introduced by John
XXII. or Benedict XII., (M&eacute;moires sur P&eacute;trarque,
tom. i. p. 258, 259.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: Baluze (Not. ad Pap. Avenion. tom. i. p. 1194,
1195) produces the original evidence which attests the threats of
the Roman ambassadors, and the resignation of the abbot of Mount
Cassin, qui, ultro se offerens, respondit se civem Romanum esse,
et illud velle quod ipsi vellent.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: The return of the popes from Avignon to Rome,
and their reception by the people, are related in the original
lives of Urban V. and Gregory XI., in Baluze (Vit. Paparum
Avenionensium, tom. i. p. 363--486) and Muratori, (Script. Rer.
Italicarum, tom. iii. P. i. p. 613--712.) In the disputes of the
schism, every circumstance was severely, though partially,
scrutinized; more especially in the great inquest, which decided
the obedience of Castile, and to which Baluze, in his notes, so
often and so largely appeals from a MS. volume in the Harley
library, (p. 1281, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>If superstition will interpret an untimely death, ^65 if the
merit of counsels be judged from the event, the heavens may seem
to frown on a measure of such apparent season and propriety.
Gregory the Eleventh did not survive above fourteen months his
return to the Vatican; and his decease was followed by the great
schism of the West, which distracted the Latin church above forty
years. The sacred college was then composed of twenty-two
cardinals: six of these had remained at Avignon; eleven
Frenchmen, one Spaniard, and four Italians, entered the conclave
in the usual form. Their choice was not yet limited to the
purple; and their unanimous votes acquiesced in the archbishop of
Bari, a subject of Naples, conspicuous for his zeal and learning,
who ascended the throne of St. Peter under the name of Urban the
Sixth. The epistle of the sacred college affirms his free, and
regular, election; which had been inspired, as usual, by the Holy
Ghost; he was adored, invested, and crowned, with the customary
rites; his temporal authority was obeyed at Rome and Avignon, and
his ecclesiastical supremacy was acknowledged in the Latin world.
During several weeks, the cardinals attended their new master
with the fairest professions of attachment and loyalty; till the
summer heats permitted a decent escape from the city. But as soon
as they were united at Anagni and Fundi, in a place of security,
they cast aside the mask, accused their own falsehood and
hypocrisy, excommunicated the apostate and antichrist of Rome,
and proceeded to a new election of Robert of Geneva, Clement the
Seventh, whom they announced to the nations as the true and
rightful vicar of Christ. Their first choice, an involuntary and
illegal act, was annulled by fear of death and the menaces of the
Romans; and their complaint is justified by the strong evidence
of probability and fact. The twelve French cardinals, above two
thirds of the votes, were masters of the election; and whatever
might be their provincial jealousies, it cannot fairly be
presumed that they would have sacrificed their right and interest
to a foreign candidate, who would never restore them to their
native country. In the various, and often inconsistent,
narratives, ^66 the shades of popular violence are more darkly or
faintly colored: but the licentiousness of the seditious Romans
was inflamed by a sense of their privileges, and the danger of a
second emigration. The conclave was intimidated by the shouts,
and encompassed by the arms, of thirty thousand rebels; the bells
of the Capitol and St. Peter's rang an alarm: "Death, or an
Italian pope!" was the universal cry; the same threat was
repeated by the twelve bannerets or chiefs of the quarters, in
the form of charitable advice; some preparations were made for
burning the obstinate cardinals; and had they chosen a
Transalpine subject, it is probable that they would never have
departed alive from the Vatican. The same constraint imposed the
necessity of dissembling in the eyes of Rome and of the world;
the pride and cruelty of Urban presented a more inevitable
danger; and they soon discovered the features of the tyrant, who
could walk in his garden and recite his breviary, while he heard
from an adjacent chamber six cardinals groaning on the rack. His
inflexible zeal, which loudly censured their luxury and vice,
would have attached them to the stations and duties of their
parishes at Rome; and had he not fatally delayed a new promotion,
the French cardinals would have been reduced to a helpless
minority in the sacred college. For these reasons, and the hope
of repassing the Alps, they rashly violated the peace and unity
of the church; and the merits of their double choice are yet
agitated in the Catholic schools. ^67 The vanity, rather than the
interest, of the nation determined the court and clergy of
France. ^68 The states of Savoy, Sicily, Cyprus, Arragon,
Castille, Navarre, and Scotland were inclined by their example
and authority to the obedience of Clement the Seventh, and after
his decease, of Benedict the Thirteenth. Rome and the principal
states of Italy, Germany, Portugal, England, ^69 the Low
Countries, and the kingdoms of the North, adhered to the prior
election of Urban the Sixth, who was succeeded by Boniface the
Ninth, Innocent the Seventh, and Gregory the Twelfth.</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: Can the death of a good man be esteemed a
punishment by those who believe in the immortality of the soul?
They betray the instability of their faith. Yet as a mere
philosopher, I cannot agree with the Greeks, on oi Jeoi jilousin
apoqnhskei neoV, (Brunck, Poet&aelig; Gnomici, p. 231.) See in
Herodotus (l. i. c. 31) the moral and pleasing tale of the Argive
youths.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: In the first book of the Histoire du Concile de
Pise, M. Lenfant has abridged and compared the original
narratives of the adherents of Urban and Clement, of the Italians
and Germans, the French and Spaniards. The latter appear to be
the most active and loquacious, and every fact and word in the
original lives of Gregory XI. and Clement VII. are supported in
the notes of their editor Baluze.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: The ordinal numbers of the popes seems to decide
the question against Clement VII. and Benedict XIII., who are
boldly stigmatized as antipopes by the Italians, while the French
are content with authorities and reasons to plead the cause of
doubt and toleration, (Baluz. in Pr&aelig;fat.) It is singular,
or rather it is not singular, that saints, visions and miracles
should be common to both parties.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: Baluze strenuously labors (Not. p. 1271--1280)
to justify the pure and pious motives of Charles V. king of
France: he refused to hear the arguments of Urban; but were not
the Urbanists equally deaf to the reasons of Clement,
&amp;c.?]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: An epistle, or declamation, in the name of
Edward III., (Baluz. Vit. Pap. Avenion. tom. i. p. 553,) displays
the zeal of the English nation against the Clementines. Nor was
their zeal confined to words: the bishop of Norwich led a crusade
of 60,000 bigots beyond sea, (Hume's History, vol. iii. p. 57,
58.)]</p>

<p>From the banks of the Tyber and the Rh&ocirc;ne, the hostile
pontiffs encountered each other with the pen and the sword: the
civil and ecclesiastical order of society was disturbed; and the
Romans had their full share of the mischiefs of which they may be
arraigned as the primary authors. ^70 They had vainly flattered
themselves with the hope of restoring the seat of the
ecclesiastical monarchy, and of relieving their poverty with the
tributes and offerings of the nations; but the separation of
France and Spain diverted the stream of lucrative devotion; nor
could the loss be compensated by the two jubilees which were
crowded into the space of ten years. By the avocations of the
schism, by foreign arms, and popular tumults, Urban the Sixth and
his three successors were often compelled to interrupt their
residence in the Vatican. The Colonna and Ursini still exercised
their deadly feuds: the bannerets of Rome asserted and abused the
privileges of a republic: the vicars of Christ, who had levied a
military force, chastised their rebellion with the gibbet, the
sword, and the dagger; and, in a friendly conference, eleven
deputies of the people were perfidiously murdered and cast into
the street. Since the invasion of Robert the Norman, the Romans
had pursued their domestic quarrels without the dangerous
interposition of a stranger. But in the disorders of the schism,
an aspiring neighbor, Ladislaus king of Naples, alternately
supported and betrayed the pope and the people; by the former he
was declared <strong><em>gonfalonier</em></strong>, or general,
of the church, while the latter submitted to his choice the
nomination of their magistrates. Besieging Rome by land and
water, he thrice entered the gates as a Barbarian conqueror;
profaned the altars, violated the virgins, pillaged the
merchants, performed his devotions at St. Peter's, and left a
garrison in the castle of St. Angelo. His arms were sometimes
unfortunate, and to a delay of three days he was indebted for his
life and crown: but Ladislaus triumphed in his turn; and it was
only his premature death that could save the metropolis and the
ecclesiastical state from the ambitious conqueror, who had
assumed the title, or at least the powers, of king of Rome.
^71</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: Besides the general historians, the Diaries of
Delphinus Gentilia Peter Antonius, and Stephen Infessura, in the
great collection of Muratori, represented the state and
misfortunes of Rome.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: It is supposed by Giannone (tom. iii. p. 292)
that he styled himself Rex Rom&aelig;, a title unknown to the
world since the expulsion of Tarquin. But a nearer inspection has
justified the reading of Rex
R<strong><em>a</em></strong>m&aelig;, of Rama, an obscure kingdom
annexed to the crown of Hungary.]</p>

<p>I have not undertaken the ecclesiastical history of the
schism; but Rome, the object of these last chapters, is deeply
interested in the disputed succession of her sovereigns. The
first counsels for the peace and union of Christendom arose from
the university of Paris, from the faculty of the Sorbonne, whose
doctors were esteemed, at least in the Gallican church, as the
most consummate masters of theological science. ^72 Prudently
waiving all invidious inquiry into the origin and merits of the
dispute, they proposed, as a healing measure, that the two
pretenders of Rome and Avignon should abdicate at the same time,
after qualifying the cardinals of the adverse factions to join in
a legitimate election; and that the nations should
<strong><em>subtract</em></strong> ^73 their obedience, if either
of the competitor preferred his own interest to that of the
public. At each vacancy, these physicians of the church
deprecated the mischiefs of a hasty choice; but the policy of the
conclave and the ambition of its members were deaf to reason and
entreaties; and whatsoever promises were made, the pope could
never be bound by the oaths of the cardinal. During fifteen
years, the pacific designs of the university were eluded by the
arts of the rival pontiffs, the scruples or passions of their
adherents, and the vicissitudes of French factions, that ruled
the insanity of Charles the Sixth. At length a vigorous
resolution was embraced; and a solemn embassy, of the titular
patriarch of Alexandria, two archbishops, five bishops, five
abbots, three knights, and twenty doctors, was sent to the courts
of Avignon and Rome, to require, in the name of the church and
king, the abdication of the two pretenders, of Peter de Luna, who
styled himself Benedict the Thirteenth, and of Angelo Corrario,
who assumed the name of Gregory the Twelfth. For the ancient
honor of Rome, and the success of their commission, the
ambassadors solicited a conference with the magistrates of the
city, whom they gratified by a positive declaration, that the
most Christian king did not entertain a wish of transporting the
holy see from the Vatican, which he considered as the genuine and
proper seat of the successor of St. Peter. In the name of the
senate and people, an eloquent Roman asserted their desire to
cooperate in the union of the church, deplored the temporal and
spiritual calamities of the long schism, and requested the
protection of France against the arms of the king of Naples. The
answers of Benedict and Gregory were alike edifying and alike
deceitful; and, in evading the demand of their abdication, the
two rivals were animated by a common spirit. They agreed on the
necessity of a previous interview; but the time, the place, and
the manner, could never be ascertained by mutual consent. "If the
one advances," says a servant of Gregory, "the other retreats;
the one appears an animal fearful of the land, the other a
creature apprehensive of the water. And thus, for a short remnant
of life and power, will these aged priests endanger the peace and
salvation of the Christian world." ^74</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: The leading and decisive part which France
assumed in the schism is stated by Peter du Puis in a separate
history, extracted from authentic records, and inserted in the
seventh volume of the last and best edition of his friend
Thuanus, (P. xi. p. 110--184.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: Of this measure, John Gerson, a stout doctor,
was the author of the champion. The proceedings of the university
of Paris and the Gallican church were often prompted by his
advice, and are copiously displayed in his theological writings,
of which Le Clerc (Biblioth&egrave;que Choisie, tom. x. p. 1--78)
has given a valuable extract. John Gerson acted an important part
in the councils of Pisa and Constance.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, one of the revivers
of classic learning in Italy, who, after serving many years as
secretary in the Roman court, retired to the honorable office of
chancellor of the republic of Florence, (Fabric. Bibliot. Medii
&AElig;vi, tom. i. p. 290.) Lenfant has given the version of this
curious epistle, (Concile de Pise, tom. i. p. 192--195.)]</p>

<p>The Christian world was at length provoked by their obstinacy
and fraud: they were deserted by their cardinals, who embraced
each other as friends and colleagues; and their revolt was
supported by a numerous assembly of prelates and ambassadors.
With equal justice, the council of Pisa deposed the popes of Rome
and Avignon; the conclave was unanimous in the choice of
Alexander the Fifth, and his vacant seat was soon filled by a
similar election of John the Twenty-third, the most profligate of
mankind. But instead of extinguishing the schism, the rashness of
the French and Italians had given a third pretender to the chair
of St. Peter. Such new claims of the synod and conclave were
disputed; three kings, of Germany, Hungary, and Naples, adhered
to the cause of Gregory the Twelfth; and Benedict the Thirteenth,
himself a Spaniard, was acknowledged by the devotion and
patriotism of that powerful nation. The rash proceedings of Pisa
were corrected by the council of Constance; the emperor Sigismond
acted a conspicuous part as the advocate or protector of the
Catholic church; and the number and weight of civil and
ecclesiastical members might seem to constitute the
states-general of Europe. Of the three popes, John the
Twenty-third was the first victim: he fled and was brought back a
prisoner: the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar
of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and
incest; and after subscribing his own condemnation, he expiated
in prison the imprudence of trusting his person to a free city
beyond the Alps. Gregory the Twelfth, whose obedience was reduced
to the narrow precincts of Rimini, descended with more honor from
the throne; and his ambassador convened the session, in which he
renounced the title and authority of lawful pope. To vanquish the
obstinacy of Benedict the Thirteenth or his adherents, the
emperor in person undertook a journey from Constance to
Perpignan. The kings of Castile, Arragon, Navarre, and Scotland,
obtained an equal and honorable treaty; with the concurrence of
the Spaniards, Benedict was deposed by the council; but the
harmless old man was left in a solitary castle to excommunicate
twice each day the rebel kingdoms which had deserted his cause.
After thus eradicating the remains of the schism, the synod of
Constance proceeded with slow and cautious steps to elect the
sovereign of Rome and the head of the church. On this momentous
occasion, the college of twenty-three cardinals was fortified
with thirty deputies; six of whom were chosen in each of the five
great nations of Christendom, -- the Italian, the German, the
French, the Spanish, and the <strong><em>English</em></strong>:
^75 the interference of strangers was softened by their generous
preference of an Italian and a Roman; and the hereditary, as well
as personal, merit of Otho Colonna recommended him to the
conclave. Rome accepted with joy and obedience the noblest of her
sons; the ecclesiastical state was defended by his powerful
family; and the elevation of Martin the Fifth is the &aelig;ra of
the restoration and establishment of the popes in the Vatican.
^76</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: I cannot overlook this great national cause,
which was vigorously maintained by the English ambassadors
against those of France. The latter contended, that Christendom
was essentially distributed into the four great nations and
votes, of Italy, Germany, France, and Spain, and that the lesser
kingdoms (such as England, Denmark, Portugal, &amp;c.) were
comprehended under one or other of these great divisions. The
English asserted, that the British islands, of which they were
the head, should be considered as a fifth and co&ouml;rdinate
nation, with an equal vote; and every argument of truth or fable
was introduced to exalt the dignity of their country. Including
England, Scotland, Wales, the four kingdoms of Ireland, and the
Orkneys, the British Islands are decorated with eight royal
crowns, and discriminated by four or five languages, English,
Welsh, Cornish, Scotch, Irish, &amp;c. The greater island from
north to south measures 800 miles, or 40 days' journey; and
England alone contains 32 counties and 52,000 parish churches, (a
bold account!) besides cathedrals, colleges, priories, and
hospitals. They celebrate the mission of St. Joseph of Arimathea,
the birth of Constantine, and the legatine powers of the two
primates, without forgetting the testimony of Bartholomey de
Glanville, (A.D. 1360,) who reckons only four Christian kingdoms,
1. of Rome, 2. of Constantinople, 3. of Ireland, which had been
transferred to the English monarchs, and 4, of Spain. Our
countrymen prevailed in the council, but the victories of Henry
V. added much weight to their arguments. The adverse pleadings
were found at Constance by Sir Robert Wingfield, ambassador of
Henry VIII. to the emperor Maximilian I., and by him printed in
1517 at Louvain. From a Leipsic MS. they are more correctly
published in the collection of Von der Hardt, tom. v.; but I have
only seen Lenfant's abstract of these acts, (Concile de
Constance, tom. ii. p. 447, 453, &amp;c.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 76: The histories of the three successive councils,
Pisa, Constance, and Basil, have been written with a tolerable
degree of candor, industry, and elegance, by a Protestant
minister, M. Lenfant, who retired from France to Berlin. They
form six volumes in quarto; and as Basil is the worst, so
Constance is the best, part of the Collection.]</p>

<p><strong><em>Chapter LXX: Final Settlement Of The
Ecclesiastical State. -- Part IV.</em></strong></p>

<p>The royal prerogative of coining money, which had been
exercised near three hundred years by the senate, was
<strong><em>first</em></strong> resumed by Martin the Fifth, ^77
and his image and superscription introduce the series of the
papal medals. Of his two immediate successors, Eugenius the
Fourth was the <strong><em>last</em></strong> pope expelled by
the tumults of the Roman people, ^78 and Nicholas the Fifth, the
<strong><em>last</em></strong> who was importuned by the presence
of a Roman emperor. ^79 I. The conflict of Eugenius with the
fathers of Basil, and the weight or apprehension of a new excise,
emboldened and provoked the Romans to usurp the temporal
government of the city. They rose in arms, elected seven
governors of the republic, and a constable of the Capitol;
imprisoned the pope's nephew; besieged his person in the palace;
and shot volleys of arrows into his bark as he escaped down the
Tyber in the habit of a monk. But he still possessed in the
castle of St. Angelo a faithful garrison and a train of
artillery: their batteries incessantly thundered on the city, and
a bullet more dexterously pointed broke down the barricade of the
bridge, and scattered with a single shot the heroes of the
republic. Their constancy was exhausted by a rebellion of five
months. Under the tyranny of the Ghibeline nobles, the wisest
patriots regretted the dominion of the church; and their
repentance was unanimous and effectual. The troops of St. Peter
again occupied the Capitol; the magistrates departed to their
homes; the most guilty were executed or exiled; and the legate,
at the head of two thousand foot and four thousand horse, was
saluted as the father of the city. The synods of Ferrara and
Florence, the fear or resentment of Eugenius, prolonged his
absence: he was received by a submissive people; but the pontiff
understood from the acclamations of his triumphal entry, that to
secure their loyalty and his own repose, he must grant without
delay the abolition of the odious excise. II. Rome was restored,
adorned, and enlightened, by the peaceful reign of Nicholas the
Fifth. In the midst of these laudable occupations, the pope was
alarmed by the approach of Frederic the Third of Austria; though
his fears could not be justified by the character or the power of
the Imperial candidate. After drawing his military force to the
metropolis, and imposing the best security of oaths ^80 and
treaties, Nicholas received with a smiling countenance the
faithful advocate and vassal of the church. So tame were the
times, so feeble was the Austrian, that the pomp of his
coronation was accomplished with order and harmony: but the
superfluous honor was so disgraceful to an independent nation,
that his successors have excused themselves from the toilsome
pilgrimage to the Vatican; and rest their Imperial title on the
choice of the electors of Germany.</p>

<p>[Footnote 77: See the xxviith Dissertation of the Antiquities
of Muratori, and the 1st Instruction of the Science des Medailles
of the P&egrave;re Joubert and the Baron de la Bastie. The
Metallic History of Martin V. and his successors has been
composed by two monks, Moulinet, a Frenchman, and Bonanni, an
Italian: but I understand, that the first part of the series is
restored from more recent coins.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 78: Besides the Lives of Eugenius IV., (Rerum
Italic. tom. iii. P. i. p. 869, and tom. xxv. p. 256,) the
Diaries of Paul Petroni and Stephen Infessura are the best
original evidence for the revolt of the Romans against Eugenius
IV. The former, who lived at the time and on the spot, speaks the
language of a citizen, equally afraid of priestly and popular
tyranny.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 79: The coronation of Frederic III. is described by
Lenfant, (Concile de Basle, tom. ii. p. 276--288,) from
&AElig;neas Sylvius, a spectator and actor in that splendid
scene.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 80: The oath of fidelity imposed on the emperor by
the pope is recorded and sanctified in the Clementines, (l. ii.
tit. ix.;) and &AElig;neas Sylvius, who objects to this new
demand, could not foresee, that in a few years he should ascend
the throne, and imbibe the maxims, of Boniface VIII.]</p>

<p>A citizen has remarked, with pride and pleasure, that the king
of the Romans, after passing with a slight salute the cardinals
and prelates who met him at the gate, distinguished the dress and
person of the senator of Rome; and in this last farewell, the
pageants of the empire and the republic were clasped in a
friendly embrace. ^81 According to the laws of Rome, ^82 her
first magistrate was required to be a doctor of laws, an alien,
of a place at least forty miles from the city; with whose
inhabitants he must not be connected in the third canonical
degree of blood or alliance. The election was annual: a severe
scrutiny was instituted into the conduct of the departing
senator; nor could he be recalled to the same office till after
the expiration of two years. A liberal salary of three thousand
florins was assigned for his expense and reward; and his public
appearance represented the majesty of the republic. His robes
were of gold brocade or crimson velvet, or in the summer season
of a lighter silk: he bore in his hand an ivory sceptre; the
sound of trumpets announced his approach; and his solemn steps
were preceded at least by four lictors or attendants, whose red
wands were enveloped with bands or streamers of the golden color
or livery of the city. His oath in the Capitol proclaims his
right and duty to observe and assert the laws, to control the
proud, to protect the poor, and to exercise justice and mercy
within the extent of his jurisdiction. In these useful functions
he was assisted by three learned strangers; the two
<strong><em>collaterals</em></strong>, and the judge of criminal
appeals: their frequent trials of robberies, rapes, and murders,
are attested by the laws; and the weakness of these laws connives
at the licentiousness of private feuds and armed associations for
mutual defence. But the senator was confined to the
administration of justice: the Capitol, the treasury, and the
government of the city and its territory, were intrusted to the
three <strong><em>conservators</em></strong>, who were changed
four times in each year: the militia of the thirteen regions
assembled under the banners of their respective chiefs, or
<strong><em>caporioni</em></strong>; and the first of these was
distinguished by the name and dignity of the
<strong><em>prior</em></strong>. The popular legislature
consisted of the secret and the common councils of the Romans.
The former was composed of the magistrates and their immediate
predecessors, with some fiscal and legal officers, and three
classes of thirteen, twenty-six, and forty, counsellors:
amounting in the whole to about one hundred and twenty persons.
In the common council all male citizens had a right to vote; and
the value of their privilege was enhanced by the care with which
any foreigners were prevented from usurping the title and
character of Romans. The tumult of a democracy was checked by
wise and jealous precautions: except the magistrates, none could
propose a question; none were permitted to speak, except from an
open pulpit or tribunal; all disorderly acclamations were
suppressed; the sense of the majority was decided by a secret
ballot; and their decrees were promulgated in the venerable name
of the Roman senate and people. It would not be easy to assign a
period in which this theory of government has been reduced to
accurate and constant practice, since the establishment of order
has been gradually connected with the decay of liberty. But in
the year one thousand five hundred and eighty the ancient
statutes were collected, methodized in three books, and adapted
to present use, under the pontificate, and with the approbation,
of Gregory the Thirteenth: ^83 this civil and criminal code is
the modern law of the city; and, if the popular assemblies have
been abolished, a foreign senator, with the three conservators,
still resides in the palace of the Capitol. ^84 The policy of the
C&aelig;sars has been repeated by the popes; and the bishop of
Rome affected to maintain the form of a republic, while he
reigned with the absolute powers of a temporal, as well as a
spiritual, monarch.</p>

<p>[Footnote 81: Lo senatore di Roma, vestito di brocarto con
quella beretta, e con quelle maniche, et ornamenti di pelle, co'
quali va alle feste di Testaccio e Nagone, might escape the eye
of &AElig;neas Sylvius, but he is viewed with admiration and
complacency by the Roman citizen, (Diario di Stephano Infessura,
p. 1133.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 82: See, in the statutes of Rome, the
<strong><em>senator and three judges</em></strong>, (l. i. c.
3--14,) the <strong><em>conservators</em></strong>, (l. i. c. 15,
16, 17, l. iii. c. 4,) the <strong><em>caporioni</em></strong>
(l. i. c. 18, l. iii. c. 8,) the <strong><em>secret
council</em></strong>, (l. iii. c. 2,) the <strong><em>common
council</em></strong>, (l. iii. c. 3.) The title of
<strong><em>feuds</em></strong>,
<strong><em>defiances</em></strong>, <strong><em>acts of
violence</em></strong>, &amp;c., is spread through many a chapter
(c. 14--40) of the second book.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 83: <strong><em>Statuta alm Urbis Rom Auctoritate S.
D. N. Gregorii XIII Pont. Max. a Senatu Populoque Rom. reformata
et edita. Rom, 1580, in folio</em></strong>. The obsolete,
repugnant statutes of antiquity were confounded in five books,
and Lucas P&aelig;tus, a lawyer and antiquarian, was appointed to
act as the modern Tribonian. Yet I regret the old code, with the
rugged crust of freedom and barbarism.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 84: In my time (1765) and in M. Grosley's,
(Observations sur l'Italie torn. ii. p. 361,) the senator of Rome
was M. Bielke, a noble Swede and a proselyte to the Catholic
faith. The pope's right to appoint the senator and the
conservator is implied, rather than affirmed, in the
statutes.]</p>

<p>It is an obvious truth, that the times must be suited to
extraordinary characters, and that the genius of Cromwell or Retz
might now expire in obscurity. The political enthusiasm of Rienzi
had exalted him to a throne; the same enthusiasm, in the next
century, conducted his imitator to the gallows. The birth of
Stephen Porcaro was noble, his reputation spotless: his tongue
was armed with eloquence, his mind was enlightened with learning;
and he aspired, beyond the aim of vulgar ambition, to free his
country and immortalize his name. The dominion of priests is most
odious to a liberal spirit: every scruple was removed by the
recent knowledge of the fable and forgery of Constantine's
donation; Petrarch was now the oracle of the Italians; and as
often as Porcaro revolved the ode which describes the patriot and
hero of Rome, he applied to himself the visions of the prophetic
bard. His first trial of the popular feelings was at the funeral
of Eugenius the Fourth: in an elaborate speech he called the
Romans to liberty and arms; and they listened with apparent
pleasure, till Porcaro was interrupted and answered by a grave
advocate, who pleaded for the church and state. By every law the
seditious orator was guilty of treason; but the benevolence of
the new pontiff, who viewed his character with pity and esteem,
attempted by an honorable office to convert the patriot into a
friend. The inflexible Roman returned from Anagni with an
increase of reputation and zeal; and, on the first opportunity,
the games of the place Navona, he tried to inflame the casual
dispute of some boys and mechanics into a general rising of the
people. Yet the humane Nicholas was still averse to accept the
forfeit of his life; and the traitor was removed from the scene
of temptation to Bologna, with a liberal allowance for his
support, and the easy obligation of presenting himself each day
before the governor of the city. But Porcaro had learned from the
younger Brutus, that with tyrants no faith or gratitude should be
observed: the exile declaimed against the arbitrary sentence; a
party and a conspiracy were gradually formed: his nephew, a
daring youth, assembled a band of volunteers; and on the
appointed evening a feast was prepared at his house for the
friends of the republic. Their leader, who had escaped from
Bologna, appeared among them in a robe of purple and gold: his
voice, his countenance, his gestures, bespoke the man who had
devoted his life or death to the glorious cause. In a studied
oration, he expiated on the motives and the means of their
enterprise; the name and liberties of Rome; the sloth and pride
of their ecclesiastical tyrants; the active or passive consent of
their fellow-citizens; three hundred soldiers, and four hundred
exiles, long exercised in arms or in wrongs; the license of
revenge to edge their swords, and a million of ducats to reward
their victory. It would be easy, (he said,) on the next day, the
festival of the Epiphany, to seize the pope and his cardinals,
before the doors, or at the altar, of St. Peter's; to lead them
in chains under the walls of St. Angelo; to extort by the threat
of their instant death a surrender of the castle; to ascend the
vacant Capitol; to ring the alarm bell; and to restore in a
popular assembly the ancient republic of Rome. While he
triumphed, he was already betrayed. The senator, with a strong
guard, invested the house: the nephew of Porcaro cut his way
through the crowd; but the unfortunate Stephen was drawn from a
chest, lamenting that his enemies had anticipated by three hours
the execution of his design. After such manifest and repeated
guilt, even the mercy of Nicholas was silent. Porcaro, and nine
of his accomplices, were hanged without the benefit of the
sacraments; and, amidst the fears and invectives of the papal
court, the Romans pitied, and almost applauded, these martyrs of
their country. ^85 But their applause was mute, their pity
ineffectual, their liberty forever extinct; and, if they have
since risen in a vacancy of the throne or a scarcity of bread,
such accidental tumults may be found in the bosom of the most
abject servitude.</p>

<p>[Footnote 85: Besides the curious, though concise, narrative
of Machiavel, (Istoria Florentina, l. vi. Opere, tom. i. p. 210,
211, edit. Londra, 1747, in 4to.) the Porcarian conspiracy is
related in the Diary of Stephen Infessura, (Rer. Ital. tom. iii.
P. ii. p. 1134, 1135,) and in a separate tract by Leo Baptista
Alberti, (Rer. Ital. tom. xxv. p. 609--614.) It is amusing to
compare the style and sentiments of the courtier and citizen.
Facinus profecto quo . . . . neque periculo horribilius, neque
audaci&acirc; detestabilius, neque crudelitate tetrius, a quoquam
perditissimo uspiam excogitatum sit . . . . Perdette la vita
quell' huomo da bene, e amatore dello bene e libert&agrave; di
Roma.]</p>

<p>But the independence of the nobles, which was fomented by
discord, survived the freedom of the commons, which must be
founded in union. A privilege of rapine and oppression was long
maintained by the barons of Rome; their houses were a fortress
and a sanctuary: and the ferocious train of banditti and
criminals whom they protected from the law repaid the hospitality
with the service of their swords and daggers. The private
interest of the pontiffs, or their nephews, sometimes involved
them in these domestic feuds. Under the reign of Sixtus the
Fourth, Rome was distracted by the battles and sieges of the
rival houses: after the conflagration of his palace, the
prothonotary Colonna was tortured and beheaded; and Savelli, his
captive friend, was murdered on the spot, for refusing to join in
the acclamations of the victorious Ursini. ^86 But the popes no
longer trembled in the Vatican: they had strength to command, if
they had resolution to claim, the obedience of their subjects;
and the strangers, who observed these partial disorders, admired
the easy taxes and wise administration of the ecclesiastical
state. ^87</p>

<p>[Footnote 86: The disorders of Rome, which were much inflamed
by the partiality of Sixtus IV. are exposed in the Diaries of two
spectators, Stephen Infessura, and an anonymous citizen. See the
troubles of the year 1484, and the death of the prothonotary
Colonna, in tom. iii. P. ii. p. 1083, 1158.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 87: Est toute la terre de l'&eacute;glise
troubl&eacute;e pour cette partialit&eacute; (des Colonnes et des
Ursins) come nous dirions Luce et Grammont, ou en Hollande Houc
et Caballan; et quand ce ne seroit ce diff&eacute;rend la terre
de l'&eacute;glise seroit la plus heureuse habitation pour les
sujets qui soit dans toute le monde (car ils ne payent ni tailles
ni gu&egrave;res autres choses,) et seroient toujours bien
conduits, (car toujours les papes sont sages et bien consellies;)
mais tr&egrave;s souvent en advient de grands et cruels meurtres
et pilleries.]</p>

<p>The spiritual thunders of the Vatican depend on the force of
opinion; and if that opinion be supplanted by reason or passion,
the sound may idly waste itself in the air; and the helpless
priest is exposed to the brutal violence of a noble or a plebeian
adversary. But after their return from Avignon, the keys of St.
Peter were guarded by the sword of St. Paul. Rome was commanded
by an impregnable citadel: the use of cannon is a powerful engine
against popular seditions: a regular force of cavalry and
infantry was enlisted under the banners of the pope: his ample
revenues supplied the resources of war: and, from the extent of
his domain, he could bring down on a rebellious city an army of
hostile neighbors and loyal subjects. ^88 Since the union of the
duchies of Ferrara and Urbino, the ecclesiastical state extends
from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, and from the confines of
Naples to the banks of the Po; and as early as the sixteenth
century, the greater part of that spacious and fruitful country
acknowledged the lawful claims and temporal sovereignty of the
Roman pontiffs. Their claims were readily deduced from the
genuine, or fabulous, donations of the darker ages: the
successive steps of their final settlement would engage us too
far in the transactions of Italy, and even of Europe; the crimes
of Alexander the Sixth, the martial operations of Julius the
Second, and the liberal policy of Leo the Tenth, a theme which
has been adorned by the pens of the noblest historians of the
times. ^89 In the first period of their conquests, till the
expedition of Charles the Eighth, the popes might successfully
wrestle with the adjacent princes and states, whose military
force was equal, or inferior, to their own. But as soon as the
monarchs of France, Germany and Spain, contended with gigantic
arms for the dominion of Italy, they supplied with art the
deficiency of strength; and concealed, in a labyrinth of wars and
treaties, their aspiring views, and the immortal hope of chasing
the Barbarians beyond the Alps. The nice balance of the Vatican
was often subverted by the soldiers of the North and West, who
were united under the standard of Charles the Fifth: the feeble
and fluctuating policy of Clement the Seventh exposed his person
and dominions to the conqueror; and Rome was abandoned seven
months to a lawless army, more cruel and rapacious than the Goths
and Vandals. ^90 After this severe lesson, the popes contracted
their ambition, which was almost satisfied, resumed the character
of a common parent, and abstained from all offensive hostilities,
except in a hasty quarrel, when the vicar of Christ and the
Turkish sultan were armed at the same time against the kingdom of
Naples. ^91 The French and Germans at length withdrew from the
field of battle: Milan, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, and the
sea-coast of Tuscany, were firmly possessed by the Spaniards; and
it became their interest to maintain the peace and dependence of
Italy, which continued almost without disturbance from the middle
of the sixteenth to the opening of the eighteenth century. The
Vatican was swayed and protected by the religious policy of the
Catholic king: his prejudice and interest disposed him in every
dispute to support the prince against the people; and instead of
the encouragement, the aid, and the asylum, which they obtained
from the adjacent states, the friends of liberty, or the enemies
of law, were enclosed on all sides within the iron circle of
despotism. The long habits of obedience and education subdued the
turbulent spirit of the nobles and commons of Rome. The barons
forgot the arms and factions of their ancestors, and insensibly
became the servants of luxury and government. Instead of
maintaining a crowd of tenants and followers, the produce of
their estates was consumed in the private expenses which multiply
the pleasures, and diminish the power, of the lord. ^92 The
Colonna and Ursini vied with each other in the decoration of
their palaces and chapels; and their antique splendor was
rivalled or surpassed by the sudden opulence of the papal
families. In Rome the voice of freedom and discord is no longer
heard; and, instead of the foaming torrent, a smooth and stagnant
lake reflects the image of idleness and servitude.</p>

<p>[Footnote 88: By the conomy of Sixtus V. the revenue of the
ecclesiastical state was raised to two millions and a half of
Roman crowns, (Vita, tom. ii. p. 291--296;) and so regular was
the military establishment, that in one month Clement VIII. could
invade the duchy of Ferrara with three thousand horse and twenty
thousand foot, (tom. iii. p. 64) Since that time (A.D. 1597) the
papal arms are happily rusted: but the revenue must have gained
some nominal increase. *</p>

<p>Note: * On the financial measures of Sixtus V. see Ranke, Dio
R&ouml;mischen P&auml;pste, i. p. 459. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 89: More especially by Guicciardini and Machiavel;
in the general history of the former, in the Florentine history,
the Prince, and the political discourses of the latter. These,
with their worthy successors, Fra Paolo and Davila, were justly
esteemed the first historians of modern languages, till, in the
present age, Scotland arose, to dispute the prize with Italy
herself.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 90: In the history of the Gothic siege, I have
compared the Barbarians with the subjects of Charles V., (vol.
iii. p. 289, 290;) an anticipation, which, like that of the
Tartar conquests, I indulged with the less scruple, as I could
scarcely hope to reach the conclusion of my work.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 91: The ambitious and feeble hostilities of the
Caraffa pope, Paul IV. may be seen in Thuanus (l. xvi.--xviii.)
and Giannone, (tom. iv p. 149--163.) Those Catholic bigots,
Philip II. and the duke of Alva, presumed to separate the Roman
prince from the vicar of Christ, yet the holy character, which
would have sanctified his victory was decently applied to protect
his defeat. *</p>

<p>Note: * But compare Ranke, Die R&ouml;mischen P&auml;pste, i.
p. 289. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 92: This gradual change of manners and expense is
admirably explained by Dr. Adam Smith, (Wealth of Nations, vol.
i. p. 495--504,) who proves, perhaps too severely, that the most
salutary effects have flowed from the meanest and most selfish
causes.]</p>

<p>A Christian, a philosopher, ^93 and a patriot, will be equally
scandalized by the temporal kingdom of the clergy; and the local
majesty of Rome, the remembrance of her consuls and triumphs, may
seem to imbitter the sense, and aggravate the shame, of her
slavery. If we calmly weigh the merits and defects of the
ecclesiastical government, it may be praised in its present
state, as a mild, decent, and tranquil system, exempt from the
dangers of a minority, the sallies of youth, the expenses of
luxury, and the calamities of war. But these advantages are
overbalanced by a frequent, perhaps a septennial, election of a
sovereign, who is seldom a native of the country; the reign of a
<strong><em>young</em></strong> statesman of threescore, in the
decline of his life and abilities, without hope to accomplish,
and without children to inherit, the labors of his transitory
reign. The successful candidate is drawn from the church, and
even the convent; from the mode of education and life the most
adverse to reason, humanity, and freedom. In the trammels of
servile faith, he has learned to believe because it is absurd, to
revere all that is contemptible, and to despise whatever might
deserve the esteem of a rational being; to punish error as a
crime, to reward mortification and celibacy as the first of
virtues; to place the saints of the calendar ^94 above the heroes
of Rome and the sages of Athens; and to consider the missal, or
the crucifix, as more useful instruments than the plough or the
loom. In the office of nuncio, or the rank of cardinal, he may
acquire some knowledge of the world, but the primitive stain will
adhere to his mind and manners: from study and experience he may
suspect the mystery of his profession; but the sacerdotal artist
will imbibe some portion of the bigotry which he inculcates. The
genius of Sixtus the Fifth ^95 burst from the gloom of a
Franciscan cloister. In a reign of five years, he exterminated
the outlaws and banditti, abolished the
<strong><em>profane</em></strong> sanctuaries of Rome, ^96 formed
a naval and military force, restored and emulated the monuments
of antiquity, and after a liberal use and large increase of the
revenue, left five millions of crowns in the castle of St.
Angelo. But his justice was sullied with cruelty, his activity
was prompted by the ambition of conquest: after his decease the
abuses revived; the treasure was dissipated; he entailed on
posterity thirty-five new taxes and the venality of offices; and,
after his death, his statue was demolished by an ungrateful, or
an injured, people. ^97 The wild and original character of Sixtus
the Fifth stands alone in the series of the pontiffs; the maxims
and effects of their temporal government may be collected from
the positive and comparative view of the arts and philosophy, the
agriculture and trade, the wealth and population, of the
ecclesiastical state. For myself, it is my wish to depart in
charity with all mankind, nor am I willing, in these last
moments, to offend even the pope and clergy of Rome. ^98</p>

<p>[Footnote 93: Mr. Hume (Hist. of England, vol. i. p. 389) too
hastily conclude that if the civil and ecclesiastical powers be
united in the same person, it is of little moment whether he be
styled prince or prelate since the temporal character will always
predominate.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 94: A Protestant may disdain the unworthy preference
of St. Francis or St. Dominic, but he will not rashly condemn the
zeal or judgment of Sixtus V., who placed the statues of the
apostles St. Peter and St. Paul on the vacant columns of Trajan
and Antonine.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 95: A wandering Italian, Gregorio Leti, has given
the Vita di Sisto-Quinto, (Amstel. 1721, 3 vols. in 12mo.,) a
copious and amusing work, but which does not command our absolute
confidence. Yet the character of the man, and the principal
facts, are supported by the annals of Spondanus and Muratori,
(A.D. 1585--1590,) and the contemporary history of the great
Thuanus, (l. lxxxii. c. 1, 2, l. lxxxiv. c. 10, l. c. c. 8.)
*</p>

<p>Note: * The industry of M. Ranke has discovered the document,
a kind of scandalous chronicle of the time, from which Leti
wrought up his amusing romances. See also M. Ranke's observations
on the Life of Sixtus. by Tempesti, b. iii. p. 317, 324. --
M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 96: These privileged places, the
<strong><em>quartieri</em></strong> or
<strong><em>franchises</em></strong>, were adopted from the Roman
nobles by the foreign ministers. Julius II. had once abolished
the abominandum et detestandum franchitiarum hujusmodi nomen: and
after Sixtus V. they again revived. I cannot discern either the
justice or magnanimity of Louis XIV., who, in 1687, sent his
ambassador, the marquis de Lavardin, to Rome, with an armed force
of a thousand officers, guards, and domestics, to maintain this
iniquitous claim, and insult Pope Innocent XI. in the heart of
his capital, (Vita di Sisto V. tom. iii. p. 260--278. Muratori,
Annali d'Italia, tom. xv. p. 494--496, and Voltaire, Siecle de
Louis XIV. tom. i. c. 14, p. 58, 59.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 97: This outrage produced a decree, which was
inscribed on marble, and placed in the Capitol. It is expressed
in a style of manly simplicity and freedom: Si quis, sive
privatus, sive magistratum gerens de collocand&acirc;
<strong><em>vivo</em></strong> pontifici statu&acirc; mentionem
facere ausit, legitimo S. P. Q. R. decreto in perpetuum infamis
et publicorum munerum expers esto. MDXC. mense Augusto, (Vita di
Sisto V. tom. iii. p. 469.) I believe that this decree is still
observed, and I know that every monarch who deserves a statue
should himself impose the prohibition.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 98: The histories of the church, Italy, and
Christendom, have contributed to the chapter which I now
conclude. In the original Lives of the Popes, we often discover
the city and republic of Rome: and the events of the xivth and
xvth centuries are preserved in the rude and domestic chronicles
which I have carefully inspected, and shall recapitulate in the
order of time.</p>

<p>1. Monaldeschi (Ludovici Boncomitis) Fragmenta Annalium Roman.
A.D. 1328, in the Scriptores Rerum Italicarum of Muratori, tom.
xii. p. 525. N. B. The credit of this fragment is somewhat hurt
by a singular interpolation, in which the author relates his own
death at the age of 115 years.</p>

<p>2. Fragmenta Histori&aelig; Roman&aelig; (vulgo Thomas
Fortifiocc&aelig;) in Romana Dialecto vulgari, (A.D. 1327--1354,
in Muratori, Antiquitat. Medii &AElig;vi Itali&aelig;, tom. iii.
p. 247--548;) the authentic groundwork of the history of
Rienzi.</p>

<p>3. Delphini (Gentilis) Diarium Romanum, (A.D. 1370--1410,) in
the Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. ii. p. 846.</p>

<p>4. Antonii (Petri) Diarium Rom., (A.D. 1404--1417,) tom. xxiv.
p. 699.</p>

<p>5. Petroni (Pauli) Miscellanea Historica Romana, (A.D.
1433--1446,) tom. xxiv. p. 1101.</p>

<p>6. Volaterrani (Jacob.) Diarium Rom., (A.D. 1472--1484,) tom.
xxiii p. 81.</p>

<p>7. Anonymi Diarium Urbis Rom&aelig;, (A.D. 1481--1492,) tom.
iii. P. ii. p. 1069.</p>

<p>8. Infessur&aelig; (Stephani) Diarium Romanum, (A.D. 1294, or
1378--1494,) tom. iii. P. ii. p. 1109.</p>

<p>9. Historia Arcana Alexandri VI. sive Excerpta ex Diario Joh.
Burcardi, (A.D. 1492--1503,) edita a Godefr. Gulielm. Leibnizio,
Hanover, 697, in 14to. The large and valuable Journal of Burcard
might be completed from the MSS. in different libraries of Italy
and France, (M. de Foncemagne, in the M&eacute;moires de l'Acad.
des Inscrip. tom. xvii. p. 597--606.)</p>

<p>Except the last, all these fragments and diaries are inserted
in the Collections of Muratori, my guide and master in the
history of Italy. His country, and the public, are indebted to
him for the following works on that subject: 1. <strong><em>Rerum
Italicarum Scriptores</em></strong>, (A.D. 500--1500,)
<strong><em>quorum potissima pars nunc primum in lucem
prodit</em></strong>, &amp;c., xxviii. vols. in folio, Milan,
1723--1738, 1751. A volume of chronological and alphabetical
tables is still wanting as a key to this great work, which is yet
in a disorderly and defective state. 2. <strong><em>Antiquitates
Itali&aelig; Medii &AElig;vi</em></strong>, vi. vols. in folio,
Milan, 1738--1743, in lxxv. curious dissertations, on the
manners, government, religion, &amp;c., of the Italians of the
darker ages, with a large supplement of charters, chronicles,
&amp;c. 3. <strong><em>Dissertazioni sopra le Antiquita
Italiane</em></strong>, iii. vols. in 4to., Milano, 1751, a free
version by the author, which may be quoted with the same
confidence as the Latin text of the Antiquities.
<strong><em>Annali d' Italia</em></strong>, xviii. vols. in
octavo, Milan, 1753--1756, a dry, though accurate and useful,
abridgment of the history of Italy, from the birth of Christ to
the middle of the xviiith century. 5. <strong><em>Dell' Antichita
Estense ed Italiane</em></strong>, ii. vols. in folio, Modena,
1717, 1740. In the history of this illustrious race, the parent
of our Brunswick kings, the critic is not seduced by the loyalty
or gratitude of the subject. In all his works, Muratori approves
himself a diligent and laborious writer, who aspires above the
prejudices of a Catholic priest. He was born in the year 1672,
and died in the year 1750, after passing near 60 years in the
libraries of Milan and Modena, (Vita del Proposto Ludovico
Antonio Muratori, by his nephew and successor Gian. Francesco
Soli Muratori Venezia, 1756 m 4to.)]</p>

<p><strong>Chapter LXXI: Prospect Of The Ruins Of Rome In The
Fifteenth Century.</strong> <strong><em>Part I.</em></strong><br>
</p>

<p>Prospect Of The Ruins Of Rome In The Fifteenth Century. --
Four Causes Of Decay And Destruction. -- Example Of The Coliseum.
-- Renovation Of The City. -- Conclusion Of The Whole Work.</p>

<p>In the last days of Pope Eugenius the Fourth, ^* two of his
servants, the learned Poggius ^1 and a friend, ascended the
Capitoline hill; reposed themselves among the ruins of columns
and temples; and viewed from that commanding spot the wide and
various prospect of desolation. ^2 The place and the object gave
ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which
spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries
empires and cities in a common grave; and it was agreed, that in
proportion to her former greatness, the fall of Rome was the more
awful and deplorable. "Her primeval state, such as she might
appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained the stranger of
Troy, ^3 has been delineated by the fancy of Virgil. This
Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket: in the time
of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple;
the temple is overthrown, the gold has been pillaged, the wheel
of fortune has accomplished her revolution, and the sacred ground
is again disfigured with thorns and brambles. The hill of the
Capitol, on which we sit, was formerly the head of the Roman
empire, the citadel of the earth, the terror of kings;
illustrated by the footsteps of so many triumphs, enriched with
the spoils and tributes of so many nations. This spectacle of the
world, how is it fallen! how changed! how defaced! The path of
victory is obliterated by vines, and the benches of the senators
are concealed by a dunghill. Cast your eyes on the Palatine hill,
and seek among the shapeless and enormous fragments the marble
theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticos of
Nero's palace: survey the other hills of the city, the vacant
space is interrupted only by ruins and gardens. The forum of the
Roman people, where they assembled to enact their laws and elect
their magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation of
pot-herbs, or thrown open for the reception of swine and
buffaloes. The public and private edifices, that were founded for
eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a
mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the
stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and
fortune." ^4</p>

<p>[Footnote *: It should be Pope Martin the Fifth. See Gibbon's
own note, ch. lxv, note 51 and Hobhouse, Illustrations of Childe
Harold, p. 155. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 1: I have already (notes 50, 51, on chap. lxv.)
mentioned the age, character, and writings of Poggius; and
particularly noticed the date of this elegant moral lecture on
the varieties of fortune.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 2: Consedimus in ipsis Tarpei&aelig; arcis ruinis,
pone ingens port&aelig; cujusdam, ut puto, templi, marmoreum
limen, plurimasque passim confractas columnas, unde magn&acirc;
ex parte prospectus urbis patet, (p. 5.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 3: &AElig;neid viii. 97--369. This ancient picture,
so artfully introduced, and so exquisitely finished, must have
been highly interesting to an inhabitant of Rome; and our early
studies allow us to sympathize in the feelings of a Roman.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 4: Capitolium adeo . . . . immutatum ut vine&aelig;
in senatorum subsellia successerint, stercorum ac purgamentorum
receptaculum factum. Respice ad Palatinum montem . . . . . vasta
rudera . . . . c&aelig;teros colles perlustra omnia vacua
&aelig;dificiis, ruinis vineisque oppleta conspicies, (Poggius,
de Varietat. Fortun&aelig; p. 21.)]</p>

<p>These relics are minutely described by Poggius, one of the
first who raised his eyes from the monuments of legendary, to
those of classic, superstition. ^5 <strong>1.</strong>Besides a
bridge, an arch, a sepulchre, and the pyramid of Cestius, he
could discern, of the age of the republic, a double row of
vaults, in the salt-office of the Capitol, which were inscribed
with the name and munificence of Catulus. <strong>2.</strong>
Eleven temples were visible in some degree, from the perfect form
of the Pantheon, to the three arches and a marble column of the
temple of Peace, which Vespasian erected after the civil wars and
the Jewish triumph. <strong>3.</strong> Of the number, which he
rashly defines, of seven <strong><em>therm</em></strong>, or
public baths, none were sufficiently entire to represent the use
and distribution of the several parts: but those of Diocletian
and Antoninus Caracalla still retained the titles of the
founders, and astonished the curious spectator, who, in observing
their solidity and extent, the variety of marbles, the size and
multitude of the columns, compared the labor and expense with the
use and importance. Of the baths of Constantine, of Alexander, of
Domitian, or rather of Titus, some vestige might yet be found.
<strong>4.</strong> The triumphal arches of Titus, Severus, and
Constantine, were entire, both the structure and the
inscriptions; a falling fragment was honored with the name of
Trajan; and two arches, then extant, in the Flaminian way, have
been ascribed to the baser memory of Faustina and Gallienus. ^*
<strong>5.</strong> After the wonder of the Coliseum, Poggius
might have overlooked small amphitheatre of brick, most probably
for the use of the pr&aelig;torian camp: the theatres of
Marcellus and Pompey were occupied in a great measure by public
and private buildings; and in the Circus, Agonalis and Maximus,
little more than the situation and the form could be
investigated. <strong>6.</strong> The columns of Trajan and
Antonine were still erect; but the Egyptian obelisks were broken
or buried. A people of gods and heroes, the workmanship of art,
was reduced to one equestrian figure of gilt brass, and to five
marble statues, of which the most conspicuous were the two horses
of Phidias and Praxiteles. <strong>7.</strong> The two mausoleums
or sepulchres of Augustus and Hadrian could not totally be lost:
but the former was only visible as a mound of earth; and the
latter, the castle of St. Angelo, had acquired the name and
appearance of a modern fortress. With the addition of some
separate and nameless columns, such were the remains of the
ancient city; for the marks of a more recent structure might be
detected in the walls, which formed a circumference of ten miles,
included three hundred and seventy-nine turrets, and opened into
the country by thirteen gates.</p>

<p>[Footnote 5: See Poggius, p. 8--22.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: One was in the Via Nomentana; est alter
pr&aelig;terea Gallieno principi dicatus, ut superscriptio
indicat, <strong><em>Vi&acirc; Nomentana</em></strong>. Hobhouse,
p. 154. Poggio likewise mentions the building which Gibbon
ambiguously says be "might have overlooked." -- M.]</p>

<p>This melancholy picture was drawn above nine hundred years
after the fall of the Western empire, and even of the Gothic
kingdom of Italy. A long period of distress and anarchy, in which
empire, and arts, and riches had migrated from the banks of the
Tyber, was incapable of restoring or adorning the city; and, as
all that is human must retrograde if it do not advance, every
successive age must have hastened the ruin of the works of
antiquity. To measure the progress of decay, and to ascertain, at
each &aelig;ra, the state of each edifice, would be an endless
and a useless labor; and I shall content myself with two
observations, which will introduce a short inquiry into the
general causes and effects. <strong>1.</strong> Two hundred years
before the eloquent complaint of Poggius, an anonymous writer
composed a description of Rome. ^6 His ignorance may repeat the
same objects under strange and fabulous names. Yet this barbarous
topographer had eyes and ears; he could observe the visible
remains; he could listen to the tradition of the people; and he
distinctly enumerates seven theatres, eleven baths, twelve
arches, and eighteen palaces, of which many had disappeared
before the time of Poggius. It is apparent, that many stately
monuments of antiquity survived till a late period, ^7 and that
the principles of destruction acted with vigorous and increasing
energy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
<strong>2.</strong> The same reflection must be applied to the
three last ages; and we should vainly seek the Septizonium of
Severus; ^8 which is celebrated by Petrarch and the antiquarians
of the sixteenth century. While the Roman edifices were still
entire, the first blows, however weighty and impetuous, were
resisted by the solidity of the mass and the harmony of the
parts; but the slightest touch would precipitate the fragments of
arches and columns, that already nodded to their fall.</p>

<p>[Footnote 6: Liber de Mirabilibus Rom&aelig; ex Registro
Nicolai Cardinalis de Arragoni&acirc; in Bibliothec&acirc; St.
Isidori Armario IV., No. 69. This treatise, with some short but
pertinent notes, has been published by Montfaucon, (Diarium
Italicum, p. 283--301,) who thus delivers his own critical
opinion: Scriptor xiiimi. circiter s&aelig;culi, ut ibidem
notatur; antiquari&aelig; rei imperitus et, ut ab illo &aelig;vo,
nugis et anilibus fabellis refertus: sed, quia monumenta,
qu&aelig; iis temporibus Rom&aelig; supererant pro modulo
recenset, non parum inde lucis mutuabitur qui Romanis
antiquitatibus indagandis operam navabit, (p. 283.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 7: The P&egrave;re Mabillon (Analecta, tom. iv. p.
502) has published an anonymous pilgrim of the ixth century, who,
in his visit round the churches and holy places at Rome, touches
on several buildings, especially porticos, which had disappeared
before the xiiith century.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 8: On the Septizonium, see the M&eacute;moires sur
P&eacute;trarque, (tom. i. p. 325,) Donatus, (p. 338,) and
Nardini, (p. 117, 414.)]</p>

<p>After a diligent inquiry, I can discern four principal causes
of the ruin of Rome, which continued to operate in a period of
more than a thousand years. I. The injuries of time and nature.
II. The hostile attacks of the Barbarians and Christians. III.
The use and abuse of the materials. And, IV. The domestic
quarrels of the Romans.</p>

<p>I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more
permanent than the narrow span of his own existence; yet these
monuments, like himself, are perishable and frail; and in the
boundless annals of time, his life and his labors must equally be
measured as a fleeting moment. Of a simple and solid edifice, it
is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration. As the
wonders of ancient days, the pyramids ^9 attracted the curiosity
of the ancients: a hundred generations, the leaves of autumn,
have dropped ^10 into the grave; and after the fall of the
Pharaohs and Ptolemies, the C&aelig;sars and caliphs, the same
pyramids stand erect and unshaken above the floods of the Nile. A
complex figure of various and minute parts to more accessible to
injury and decay; and the silent lapse of time is often
accelerated by hurricanes and earthquakes, by fires and
inundations. The air and earth have doubtless been shaken; and
the lofty turrets of Rome have tottered from their foundations;
but the seven hills do not appear to be placed on the great
cavities of the globe; nor has the city, in any age, been exposed
to the convulsions of nature, which, in the climate of Antioch,
Lisbon, or Lima, have crumbled in a few moments the works of ages
into dust. Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the
rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or
negligence of mankind; and every period of the Roman annals is
marked by the repetition of similar calamities. A memorable
conflagration, the guilt or misfortune of Nero's reign,
continued, though with unequal fury, either six or nine days. ^11
Innumerable buildings, crowded in close and crooked streets,
supplied perpetual fuel for the flames; and when they ceased,
four only of the fourteen regions were left entire; three were
totally destroyed, and seven were deformed by the relics of
smoking and lacerated edifices. ^12 In the full meridian of
empire, the metropolis arose with fresh beauty from her ashes;
yet the memory of the old deplored their irreparable losses, the
arts of Greece, the trophies of victory, the monuments of
primitive or fabulous antiquity. In the days of distress and
anarchy, every wound is mortal, every fall irretrievable; nor can
the damage be restored either by the public care of government,
or the activity of private interest. Yet two causes may be
alleged, which render the calamity of fire more destructive to a
flourishing than a decayed city. <strong>1.</strong> The more
combustible materials of brick, timber, and metals, are first
melted or consumed; but the flames may play without injury or
effect on the naked walls, and massy arches, that have been
despoiled of their ornaments. <strong>2.</strong> It is among the
common and plebeian habitations, that a mischievous spark is most
easily blown to a conflagration; but as soon as they are
devoured, the greater edifices, which have resisted or escaped,
are left as so many islands in a state of solitude and safety.
From her situation, Rome is exposed to the danger of frequent
inundations. Without excepting the Tyber, the rivers that descend
from either side of the Apennine have a short and irregular
course; a shallow stream in the summer heats; an impetuous
torrent, when it is swelled in the spring or winter, by the fall
of rain, and the melting of the snows. When the current is
repelled from the sea by adverse winds, when the ordinary bed is
inadequate to the weight of waters, they rise above the banks,
and overspread, without limits or control, the plains and cities
of the adjacent country. Soon after the triumph of the first
Punic war, the Tyber was increased by unusual rains; and the
inundation, surpassing all former measure of time and place,
destroyed all the buildings that were situated below the hills of
Rome. According to the variety of ground, the same mischief was
produced by different means; and the edifices were either swept
away by the sudden impulse, or dissolved and undermined by the
long continuance, of the flood. ^13 Under the reign of Augustus,
the same calamity was renewed: the lawless river overturned the
palaces and temples on its banks; ^14 and, after the labors of
the emperor in cleansing and widening the bed that was encumbered
with ruins, ^15 the vigilance of his successors was exercised by
similar dangers and designs. The project of diverting into new
channels the Tyber itself, or some of the dependent streams, was
long opposed by superstition and local interests; ^16 nor did the
use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect
execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most
important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness
of nature; ^17 and if such were the ravages of the Tyber under a
firm and active government, what could oppose, or who can
enumerate, the injuries of the city, after the fall of the
Western empire? A remedy was at length produced by the evil
itself: the accumulation of rubbish and the earth, that has been
washed down from the hills, is supposed to have elevated the
plain of Rome, fourteen or fifteen feet, perhaps, above the
ancient level; ^18 and the modern city is less accessible to the
attacks of the river. ^19</p>

<p>[Footnote 9: The age of the pyramids is remote and unknown,
since Diodorus Siculus (tom. i l. i. c. 44, p. 72) is unable to
decide whether they were constructed 1000, or 3400, years before
the clxxxth Olympiad. Sir John Marsham's contracted scale of the
Egyptian dynasties would fix them about 2000 years before Christ,
(Canon. Chronicus, p. 47.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 10: See the speech of Glaucus in the Iliad, (Z.
146.) This natural but melancholy image is peculiar to
Homer.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 11: The learning and criticism of M. des Vignoles
(Histoire Critique de la R&eacute;publique des Lettres, tom.
viii. p. 47--118, ix. p. 172--187) dates the fire of Rome from
A.D. 64, July 19, and the subsequent persecution of the
Christians from November 15 of the same year.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 12: Quippe in regiones quatuordecim Roma dividitur,
quarum quatuor integr&aelig; manebant, tres solo tenus
deject&aelig;: septem reliquis pauca testorum vestigia
supererant, lacera et semiusta. Among the old relics that were
irreparably lost, Tacitus enumerates the temple of the moon of
Servius Tullius; the fane and altar consecrated by Evander
pr&aelig;senti Herculi; the temple of Jupiter Stator, a vow of
Romulus; the palace of Numa; the temple of Vesta cum Penatibus
populi Romani. He then deplores the opes tot victoriis
qu&aelig;sit&aelig; et Gr&aelig;carum artium decora . . . . multa
qu&aelig; seniores meminerant, qu&aelig; reparari nequibant,
(Annal. xv. 40, 41.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 13: A. U. C. 507, repentina subversio ipsius
Rom&aelig; pr&aelig;venit triumphum Romanorum . . . .
divers&aelig; ignium aquarumque clades pene absumsere urbem Nam
Tiberis insolitis auctus imbribus et ultra opinionem, vel
diuturnitate vel maguitudine redundans,
<strong><em>omnia</em></strong> Rom&aelig; &aelig;dificia in
plano posita delevit. Divers&aelig; qualitates locorum ad unam
convenere perniciem: quoniam et qu&aelig; segnior inundatio
tenuit madefacta dissolvit, et qu&aelig; cursus torrentis invenit
impulsa dejecit, (Orosius, Hist. l. iv. c. 11, p. 244, edit.
Havercamp.) Yet we may observe, that it is the plan and study of
the Christian apologist to magnify the calamities of the Pagan
world.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 14:</p>

<p>Vidimus flavum Tiberim, retortis</p>

<p>Littore Etrusco violenter undis,</p>

<p>Ire dejectum monumenta Regis</p>

<p>Templaque Vest&aelig;. (Horat. Carm. I. 2.)</p>

<p>If the palace of Numa and temple of Vesta were thrown down in
Horace's time, what was consumed of those buildings by Nero's
fire could hardly deserve the epithets of vetustissima or
incorrupta.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 15: Ad coercendas inundationes alveum Tiberis
laxavit, ac repurgavit, completum olim ruderibus, et
&aelig;dificiorum prolapsionibus coarctatum, (Suetonius in
Augusto, c. 30.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 16: Tacitus (Annal. i. 79) reports the petitions of
the different towns of Italy to the senate against the measure;
and we may applaud the progress of reason. On a similar occasion,
local interests would undoubtedly be consulted: but an English
House of Commons would reject with contempt the arguments of
superstition, "that nature had assigned to the rivers their
proper course," &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 17: See the Epoques de la Nature of the eloquent and
philosophic Buffon. His picture of Guyana, in South America, is
that of a new and savage land, in which the waters are abandoned
to themselves without being regulated by human industry, (p. 212,
561, quarto edition.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 18: In his travels in Italy, Mr. Addison (his works,
vol. ii. p. 98, Baskerville's edition) has observed this curious
and unquestionable fact.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 19: Yet in modern times, the Tyber has sometimes
damaged the city, and in the years 1530, 1557, 1598, the annals
of Muratori record three mischievous and memorable inundations,
(tom. xiv. p. 268, 429, tom. xv. p. 99, &amp;c.) *</p>

<p>Note: * The level of the Tyber was at one time supposed to be
considerably raised: recent investigations seem to be conclusive
against this supposition. See a brief, but satisfactory statement
of the question in Bunsen and Platner, Roms Beschreibung. vol. i.
p. 29. -- M.]</p>

<p>II. The crowd of writers of every nation, who impute the
destruction of the Roman monuments to the Goths and the
Christians, have neglected to inquire how far they were animated
by a hostile principle, and how far they possessed the means and
the leisure to satiate their enmity. In the preceding volumes of
this History, I have described the triumph of barbarism and
religion; and I can only resume, in a few words, their real or
imaginary connection with the ruin of ancient Rome. Our fancy may
create, or adopt, a pleasing romance, that the Goths and Vandals
sallied from Scandinavia, ardent to avenge the flight of Odin;
^20 to break the chains, and to chastise the oppressors, of
mankind; that they wished to burn the records of classic
literature, and to found their national architecture on the
broken members of the Tuscan and Corinthian orders. But in simple
truth, the northern conquerors were neither sufficiently savage,
nor sufficiently refined, to entertain such aspiring ideas of
destruction and revenge. The shepherds of Scythia and Germany had
been educated in the armies of the empire, whose discipline they
acquired, and whose weakness they invaded: with the familiar use
of the Latin tongue, they had learned to reverence the name and
titles of Rome; and, though incapable of emulating, they were
more inclined to admire, than to abolish, the arts and studies of
a brighter period. In the transient possession of a rich and
unresisting capital, the soldiers of Alaric and Genseric were
stimulated by the passions of a victorious army; amidst the
wanton indulgence of lust or cruelty, portable wealth was the
object of their search; nor could they derive either pride or
pleasure from the unprofitable reflection, that they had battered
to the ground the works of the consuls and C&aelig;sars. Their
moments were indeed precious; the Goths evacuated Rome on the
sixth, ^21 the Vandals on the fifteenth, day: ^22 and, though it
be far more difficult to build than to destroy, their hasty
assault would have made a slight impression on the solid piles of
antiquity. We may remember, that both Alaric and Genseric
affected to spare the buildings of the city; that they subsisted
in strength and beauty under the auspicious government of
Theodoric; ^23 and that the momentary resentment of Totila ^24
was disarmed by his own temper and the advice of his friends and
enemies. From these innocent Barbarians, the reproach may be
transferred to the Catholics of Rome. The statues, altars, and
houses, of the d&aelig;mons, were an abomination in their eyes;
and in the absolute command of the city, they might labor with
zeal and perseverance to erase the idolatry of their ancestors.
The demolition of the temples in the East ^25 affords to
<strong><em>them</em></strong> an example of conduct, and to
<strong><em>us</em></strong> an argument of belief; and it is
probable that a portion of guilt or merit may be imputed with
justice to the Roman proselytes. Yet their abhorrence was
confined to the monuments of heathen superstition; and the civil
structures that were dedicated to the business or pleasure of
society might be preserved without injury or scandal. The change
of religion was accomplished, not by a popular tumult, but by the
decrees of the emperors, of the senate, and of time. Of the
Christian hierarchy, the bishops of Rome were commonly the most
prudent and least fanatic; nor can any positive charge be opposed
to the meritorious act of saving or converting the majestic
structure of the Pantheon. ^26 ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 20: I take this opportunity of declaring, that in
the course of twelve years, I have forgotten, or renounced, the
flight of Odin from Azoph to Sweden, which I never very seriously
believed, (vol. i. p. 283.) The Goths are apparently Germans: but
all beyond C&aelig;sar and Tacitus is darkness or fable, in the
antiquities of Germany.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 21: History of the Decline, &amp;c., vol. iii. p.
291.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 22: ---------------------- vol. iii. p. 464.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 23: ---------------------- vol. iv. p. 23--25.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 24: ---------------------- vol. iv. p. 258.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 25: ---------------------- vol. iii. c. xxviii. p.
139--148.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 26: Eodem tempore petiit a Phocate principe templum,
quod appellatur <strong><em>Pantheon</em></strong>, in quo fecit
ecclesiam Sanct&aelig; Mari&aelig; semper Virginis, et omnium
martyrum; in qu&acirc; ecclesi&aelig; princeps multa bona
obtulit, (Anastasius vel potius Liber Pontificalis in Bonifacio
IV., in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. i. p.
135.) According to the anonymous writer in Montfaucon, the
Pantheon had been vowed by Agrippa to Cybele and Neptune, and was
dedicated by Boniface IV., on the calends of November, to the
Virgin, qu&aelig; est mater omnium sanctorum, (p. 297, 298.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: The popes, under the dominion of the emperor and
of the exarchs, according to Feas's just observation, did not
possess the power of disposing of the buildings and monuments of
the city according to their own will. Bunsen and Platner, vol. i.
p. 241. -- M.]</p>

<p>III. The value of any object that supplies the wants or
pleasures of mankind is compounded of its substance and its form,
of the materials and the manufacture. Its price must depend on
the number of persons by whom it may be acquired and used; on the
extent of the market; and consequently on the ease or difficulty
of remote exportation, according to the nature of the commodity,
its local situation, and the temporary circumstances of the
world. The Barbarian conquerors of Rome usurped in a moment the
toil and treasure of successive ages; but, except the luxuries of
immediate consumption, they must view without desire all that
could not be removed from the city in the Gothic wagons or the
fleet of the Vandals. ^27 Gold and silver were the first objects
of their avarice; as in every country, and in the smallest
compass, they represent the most ample command of the industry
and possessions of mankind. A vase or a statue of those precious
metals might tempt the vanity of some Barbarian chief; but the
grosser multitude, regardless of the form, was tenacious only of
the substance; and the melted ingots might be readily divided and
stamped into the current coin of the empire. The less active or
less fortunate robbers were reduced to the baser plunder of
brass, lead, iron, and copper: whatever had escaped the Goths and
Vandals was pillaged by the Greek tyrants; and the emperor
Constans, in his rapacious visit, stripped the bronze tiles from
the roof of the Pantheon. ^28 The edifices of Rome might be
considered as a vast and various mine; the first labor of
extracting the materials was already performed; the metals were
purified and cast; the marbles were hewn and polished; and after
foreign and domestic rapine had been satiated, the remains of the
city, could a purchaser have been found, were still venal. The
monuments of antiquity had been left naked of their precious
ornaments; but the Romans would demolish with their own hands the
arches and walls, if the hope of profit could surpass the cost of
the labor and exportation. If Charlemagne had fixed in Italy the
seat of the Western empire, his genius would have aspired to
restore, rather than to violate, the works of the C&aelig;sars;
but policy confined the French monarch to the forests of Germany;
his taste could be gratified only by destruction; and the new
palace of Aix la Chapelle was decorated with the marbles of
Ravenna ^29 and Rome. ^30 Five hundred years after Charlemagne, a
king of Sicily, Robert, the wisest and most liberal sovereign of
the age, was supplied with the same materials by the easy
navigation of the Tyber and the sea; and Petrarch sighs an
indignant complaint, that the ancient capital of the world should
adorn from her own bowels the slothful luxury of Naples. ^31 But
these examples of plunder or purchase were rare in the darker
ages; and the Romans, alone and unenvied, might have applied to
their private or public use the remaining structures of
antiquity, if in their present form and situation they had not
been useless in a great measure to the city and its inhabitants.
The walls still described the old circumference, but the city had
descended from the seven hills into the Campus Martius; and some
of the noblest monuments which had braved the injuries of time
were left in a desert, far remote from the habitations of
mankind. The palaces of the senators were no longer adapted to
the manners or fortunes of their indigent successors: the use of
baths ^32 and porticos was forgotten: in the sixth century, the
games of the theatre, amphitheatre, and circus, had been
interrupted: some temples were devoted to the prevailing worship;
but the Christian churches preferred the holy figure of the
cross; and fashion, or reason, had distributed after a peculiar
model the cells and offices of the cloister. Under the
ecclesiastical reign, the number of these pious foundations was
enormously multiplied; and the city was crowded with forty
monasteries of men, twenty of women, and sixty chapters and
colleges of canons and priests, ^33 who aggravated, instead of
relieving, the depopulation of the tenth century. But if the
forms of ancient architecture were disregarded by a people
insensible of their use and beauty, the plentiful materials were
applied to every call of necessity or superstition; till the
fairest columns of the Ionic and Corinthian orders, the richest
marbles of Paros and Numidia, were degraded, perhaps to the
support of a convent or a stable. The daily havoc which is
perpetrated by the Turks in the cities of Greece and Asia may
afford a melancholy example; and in the gradual destruction of
the monuments of Rome, Sixtus the Fifth may alone be excused for
employing the stones of the Septizonium in the glorious edifice
of St. Peter's. ^34 A fragment, a ruin, howsoever mangled or
profaned, may be viewed with pleasure and regret; but the greater
part of the marble was deprived of substance, as well as of place
and proportion; it was burnt to lime for the purpose of cement.
^* Since the arrival of Poggius, the temple of Concord, ^35 and
many capital structures, had vanished from his eyes; and an
epigram of the same age expresses a just and pious fear, that the
continuance of this practice would finally annihilate all the
monuments of antiquity. ^36 The smallness of their numbers was
the sole check on the demands and depredations of the Romans. The
imagination of Petrarch might create the presence of a mighty
people; ^37 and I hesitate to believe, that, even in the
fourteenth century, they could be reduced to a contemptible list
of thirty-three thousand inhabitants. From that period to the
reign of Leo the Tenth, if they multiplied to the amount of
eighty-five thousand, ^38 the increase of citizens was in some
degree pernicious to the ancient city.</p>

<p>[Footnote 27: Flaminius Vacca (apud Montfaucon, p. 155, 156.
His memoir is likewise printed, p. 21, at the end of the Roman
Antica of Nardini) and several Romans, doctrin&acirc; graves,
were persuaded that the Goths buried their treasures at Rome, and
bequeathed the secret marks filiis nepotibusque. He relates some
anecdotes to prove, that in his own time, these places were
visited and rifled by the Transalpine pilgrims, the heirs of the
Gothic conquerors.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 28: Omnia qu&aelig; erant in &aelig;re ad ornatum
civitatis deposuit, sed e ecclesiam B. Mari&aelig; ad martyres
qu&aelig; de tegulis &aelig;reis cooperta discooperuit, (Anast.
in Vitalian. p. 141.) The base and sacrilegious Greek had not
even the poor pretence of plundering a heathen temple, the
Pantheon was already a Catholic church.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 29: For the spoils of Ravenna (musiva atque marmora)
see the original grant of Pope Adrian I. to Charlemagne, (Codex
Carolin. epist. lxvii. in Muratori, Script. Ital. tom. iii. P.
ii. p. 223.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 30: I shall quote the authentic testimony of the
Saxon poet, (A.D. 887--899,) de Rebus gestis Caroli magni, l. v.
437--440, in the Historians of France, (tom. v. p. 180:)</p>

<p>Ad qu&aelig; marmoreas pr&aelig;stabat Roma columnas,</p>

<p>Quasdam pr&aelig;cipuas pulchra Ravenna dedit.</p>

<p>De tam longinqu&acirc; poterit regione vetustas</p>

<p>Illius ornatum, Francia, ferre tibi.</p>

<p>And I shall add from the Chronicle of Sigebert, (Historians of
France, tom. v. p. 378,) extruxit etiam Aquisgrani basilicam
plurim&aelig; pulchritudinis, ad cujus structuram a Roma et
Ravenna columnas et marmora devehi fecit.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 31: I cannot refuse to transcribe a long passage of
Petrarch (Opp. p. 536, 537) in Epistol&acirc; hortatori&acirc; ad
Nicolaum Laurentium; it is so strong and full to the point: Nec
pudor aut pietas continuit quominus impii spoliata Dei templa,
occupatas arces, opes publicas, regiones urbis, atque honores
magistrat&ucirc;um inter se divisos;
(<strong><em>habeant?</em></strong>) quam un&acirc; in re,
turbulenti ac seditiosi homines et totius reliqu&aelig;
vit&aelig; consiliis et rationibus discordes, inhumani fderis
stupend&agrave; societate convenirent, in pontes et mnia atque
immeritos lapides des&aelig;virent. Denique post vi vel senio
collapsa palatia, qu&aelig; quondam ingentes tenuerunt viri, post
diruptos arcus triumphales, (unde majores horum forsitan
corruerunt,) de ipsius vetustatis ac propri&aelig; impietatis
fragminibus vilem qu&aelig;stum turpi mercimonio captare non
puduit. Itaque nunc, heu dolor! heu scelus indignum! de vestris
marmoreis columnis, de liminibus templorum, (ad qu&aelig; nuper
ex orbe toto concursus devotissimus fiebat,) de imaginibus
sepulchrorum sub quibus patrum vestrorum venerabilis civis
(<strong><em>cinis?</em></strong>) erat, ut reliquas sileam,
desidiosa Neapolis adornatur. Sic paullatim ruin&aelig;
ips&aelig; deficiunt. Yet King Robert was the friend of
Petrarch.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 32: Yet Charlemagne washed and swam at Aix la
Chapelle with a hundred of his courtiers, (Eginhart, c. 22, p.
108, 109,) and Muratori describes, as late as the year 814, the
public baths which were built at Spoleto in Italy, (Annali, tom.
vi. p. 416.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 33: See the Annals of Italy, A.D. 988. For this and
the preceding fact, Muratori himself is indebted to the
Benedictine history of P&egrave;re Mabillon.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 34: Vita di Sisto Quinto, da Gregorio Leti, tom.
iii. p. 50.]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: From the quotations in Bunsen's Dissertation, it
may be suspected that this slow but continual process of
destruction was the most fatal. Ancient Rome eas considered a
quarry from which the church, the castle of the baron, or even
the hovel of the peasant, might be repaired. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 35: Porticus &aelig;dis Concordi&aelig;, quam cum
primum ad urbem accessi vidi fere integram opere marmoreo admodum
specioso: Romani postmodum ad calcem &aelig;dem totam et
portic&ucirc;s partem disjectis columnis sunt demoliti, (p. 12.)
The temple of Concord was therefore <strong><em>not</em></strong>
destroyed by a sedition in the xiiith century, as I have read in
a MS. treatise del' Governo civile di Rome, lent me formerly at
Rome, and ascribed (I believe falsely) to the celebrated Gravina.
Poggius likewise affirms that the sepulchre of C&aelig;cilia
Metella was burnt for lime, (p. 19, 20.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 36: Composed by &AElig;neas Sylvius, afterwards Pope
Pius II., and published by Mabillon, from a MS. of the queen of
Sweden, (Mus&aelig;um Italicum, tom. i. p. 97.)</p>

<p>Oblectat me, Roma, tuas spectare ruinas:</p>

<p>Ex cujus laps&ucirc; gloria prisca patet.</p>

<p>Sed tuus hic populus muris defossa vetustis</p>

<p><strong><em>Calcis in obsequium</em></strong> marmora dura
coquit.</p>

<p>Impia tercentum si sic gens egerit annos</p>

<p>Nullum hinc indicium nobilitatis erit.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>[Footnote 37: Vagabamur pariter in ill&acirc; urbe tam
magn&acirc;; qu&aelig;, cum propter spatium vacua videretur,
populum habet immensum, (Opp p. 605 Epist. Familiares, ii.
14.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 38: These states of the population of Rome at
different periods are derived from an ingenious treatise of the
physician Lancisi, de Romani Cli Qualitatibus, (p. 122.)]</p>

<p>IV. I have reserved for the last, the most potent and forcible
cause of destruction, the domestic hostilities of the Romans
themselves. Under the dominion of the Greek and French emperors,
the peace of the city was disturbed by accidental, though
frequent, seditions: it is from the decline of the latter, from
the beginning of the tenth century, that we may date the
licentiousness of private war, which violated with impunity the
laws of the Code and the Gospel, without respecting the majesty
of the absent sovereign, or the presence and person of the vicar
of Christ. In a dark period of five hundred years, Rome was
perpetually afflicted by the sanguinary quarrels of the nobles
and the people, the Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Colonna and
Ursini; and if much has escaped the knowledge, and much is
unworthy of the notice, of history, I have exposed in the two
preceding chapters the causes and effects of the public
disorders. At such a time, when every quarrel was decided by the
sword, and none could trust their lives or properties to the
impotence of law, the powerful citizens were armed for safety, or
offence, against the domestic enemies whom they feared or hated.
Except Venice alone, the same dangers and designs were common to
all the free republics of Italy; and the nobles usurped the
prerogative of fortifying their houses, and erecting strong
towers, ^39 that were capable of resisting a sudden attack. The
cities were filled with these hostile edifices; and the example
of Lucca, which contained three hundred towers; her law, which
confined their height to the measure of fourscore feet, may be
extended with suitable latitude to the more opulent and populous
states. The first step of the senator Brancaleone in the
establishment of peace and justice, was to demolish (as we have
already seen) one hundred and forty of the towers of Rome; and,
in the last days of anarchy and discord, as late as the reign of
Martin the Fifth, forty-four still stood in one of the thirteen
or fourteen regions of the city. To this mischievous purpose the
remains of antiquity were most readily adapted: the temples and
arches afforded a broad and solid basis for the new structures of
brick and stone; and we can name the modern turrets that were
raised on the triumphal monuments of Julius C&aelig;sar, Titus,
and the Antonines. ^40 With some slight alterations, a theatre,
an amphitheatre, a mausoleum, was transformed into a strong and
spacious citadel. I need not repeat, that the mole of Adrian has
assumed the title and form of the castle of St. Angelo; ^41 the
Septizonium of Severus was capable of standing against a royal
army; ^42 the sepulchre of Metella has sunk under its outworks;
^43 ^* the theatres of Pompey and Marcellus were occupied by the
Savelli and Ursini families; ^44 and the rough fortress has been
gradually softened to the splendor and elegance of an Italian
palace. Even the churches were encompassed with arms and
bulwarks, and the military engines on the roof of St. Peter's
were the terror of the Vatican and the scandal of the Christian
world. Whatever is fortified will be attacked; and whatever is
attacked may be destroyed. Could the Romans have wrested from the
popes the castle of St. Angelo, they had resolved by a public
decree to annihilate that monument of servitude. Every building
of defence was exposed to a siege; and in every siege the arts
and engines of destruction were laboriously employed. After the
death of Nicholas the Fourth, Rome, without a sovereign or a
senate, was abandoned six months to the fury of civil war. "The
houses," says a cardinal and poet of the times, ^45 "were crushed
by the weight and velocity of enormous stones; ^46 the walls were
perforated by the strokes of the battering-ram; the towers were
involved in fire and smoke; and the assailants were stimulated by
rapine and revenge." The work was consummated by the tyranny of
the laws; and the factions of Italy alternately exercised a blind
and thoughtless vengeance on their adversaries, whose houses and
castles they razed to the ground. ^47 In comparing the
<strong><em>days</em></strong> of foreign, with the
<strong><em>ages</em></strong> of domestic, hostility, we must
pronounce, that the latter have been far more ruinous to the
city; and our opinion is confirmed by the evidence of Petrarch.
"Behold," says the laureate, "the relics of Rome, the image of
her pristine greatness! neither time nor the Barbarian can boast
the merit of this stupendous destruction: it was perpetrated by
her own citizens, by the most illustrious of her sons; and your
ancestors (he writes to a noble Annabaldi) have done with the
battering-ram what the Punic hero could not accomplish with the
sword." ^48 The influence of the two last principles of decay
must in some degree be multiplied by each other; since the houses
and towers, which were subverted by civil war, required by a new
and perpetual supply from the monuments of antiquity. ^*</p>

<p>[Footnote 39: All the facts that relate to the towers at Rome,
and in other free cities of Italy, may be found in the laborious
and entertaining compilation of Muratori, Antiquitates
Itali&aelig; Medii &AElig;vi, dissertat. xxvi., (tom. ii. p.
493--496, of the Latin, tom. . p. 446, of the Italian work.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 40: As for instance, templum Jani nunc dicitur,
turris Centii Frangipanis; et sane Jano imposit&aelig; turris
lateriti&aelig; conspicua hodieque vestigia supersunt,
(Montfaucon Diarium Italicum, p. 186.) The anonymous writer (p.
285) enumerates, arcus Titi, turris Cartularia; arcus Julii
C&aelig;saris et Senatorum, turres de Bratis; arcus Antonini,
turris de Cosectis, &amp;c.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 41: Hadriani molem . . . . magna ex parte Romanorum
injuria . . . . disturbavit; quod certe funditus evertissent, si
eorum manibus pervia, absumptis grandibus saxis, reliqua moles
exstisset, (Poggius de Varietate Fortun&aelig;, p. 12.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 42: Against the emperor Henry IV., (Muratori, Annali
d' Italia, tom. ix. p. 147.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 43: I must copy an important passage of Montfaucon:
Turris ingens rotunda . . . . C&aelig;cili&aelig; Metell&aelig; .
. . . sepulchrum erat, cujus muri tam solidi, ut spatium perquam
minimum intus vacuum supersit; et <strong><em>Torre di
Bove</em></strong> dicitur, a boum capitibus muro inscriptis.
Huic sequiori &aelig;vo, tempore intestinorum bellorum, ceu
urbecula adjuncta fuit, cujus mnia et turres etiamnum visuntur;
ita ut sepulchrum Metell&aelig; quasi arx oppiduli fuerit.
Ferventibus in urbe partibus, cum Ursini atque Columnenses mutuis
cladibus perniciem inferrent civitati, in utriusve partis
ditionem cederet magni momenti erat, (p. 142.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: This is inaccurately expressed. The sepulchre is
still standing See Hobhouse, p. 204. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 44: See the testimonies of Donatus, Nardini, and
Montfaucon. In the Savelli palace, the remains of the theatre of
Marcellus are still great and conspicuous.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 45: James, cardinal of St. George, ad velum aureum,
in his metrical life of Pope Celestin V., (Muratori, Script.
Ital. tom. i. P. iii. p. 621, l. i. c. l. ver. 132, &amp;c.)</p>

<p>Hoc dixisse sat est, Romam caruisee Senat&ucirc;</p>

<p>Mensibus exactis heu sex; belloque vocatum
(<strong><em>vocatos</em></strong>)</p>

<p>In scelus, in socios fraternaque vulnera patres;</p>

<p>Tormentis jecisse viros immania saxa;</p>

<p>Perfodisse domus trabibus, fecisse ruinas</p>

<p>Ignibus; incensas turres, obscuraque fumo</p>

<p>Lumina vicino, quo sit spoliata supellex.</p>

<p>11]</p>

<p>[Footnote 46: Muratori (Dissertazione sopra le
Antiquit&agrave; Italiane, tom. i. p. 427--431) finds that stone
bullets of two or three hundred pounds' weight were not uncommon;
and they are sometimes computed at xii. or xviii
<strong><em>cantari</em></strong> of Genoa, each
<strong><em>cantaro</em></strong> weighing 150 pounds.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 47: The vith law of the Visconti prohibits this
common and mischievous practice; and strictly enjoins, that the
houses of banished citizens should be preserved pro communi
utilitate, (Gualvancus de la Flamma in Muratori, Script. Rerum
Italicarum, tom. xii. p. 1041.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 48: Petrarch thus addresses his friend, who, with
shame and tears had shown him the mnia, lacer&aelig; specimen
miserable Rom&aelig;, and declared his own intention of restoring
them, (Carmina Latina, l. ii. epist. Paulo Annibalensi, xii. p.
97, 98.)</p>

<p>Nec te parva manet servatis fama ruinis</p>

<p>Quanta quod integr&aelig; fuit olim gloria Rom&aelig;</p>

<p>Reliqui&aelig; testantur adhuc; quas longior &aelig;tas</p>

<p>Frangere non valuit; non vis aut ira cruenti Hostis,</p>

<p>ab egregiis franguntur civibus, heu! heu'</p>

<p>-------- Quod <strong><em>ille</em></strong> nequivit
(<strong><em>Hannibal</em></strong>.)</p>

<p>Perficit hic aries. 11]</p>

<p>[Footnote *: Bunsen has shown that the hostile attacks of the
emperor Henry the Fourth, but more particularly that of Robert
Guiscard, who burned down whole districts, inflicted the worst
damage on the ancient city Vol. i. p. 247. -- M.]</p>

<p><em><strong>Chapter LXXI: Prospect Of The Ruins Of Rome In The
Fifteenth Century. -- Part II.</strong></em></p>

<p>These general observations may be separately applied to the
amphitheatre of Titus, which has obtained the name of the
Coliseum, ^49 either from its magnitude, or from Nero's colossal
statue; an edifice, had it been left to time and nature, which
might perhaps have claimed an eternal duration. The curious
antiquaries, who have computed the numbers and seats, are
disposed to believe, that above the upper row of stone steps the
amphitheatre was encircled and elevated with several stages of
wooden galleries, which were repeatedly consumed by fire, and
restored by the emperors. Whatever was precious, or portable, or
profane, the statues of gods and heroes, and the costly ornaments
of sculpture which were cast in brass, or overspread with leaves
of silver and gold, became the first prey of conquest or
fanaticism, of the avarice of the Barbarians or the Christians.
In the massy stones of the Coliseum, many holes are discerned;
and the two most probable conjectures represent the various
accidents of its decay. These stones were connected by solid
links of brass or iron, nor had the eye of rapine overlooked the
value of the baser metals; ^50 the vacant space was converted
into a fair or market; the artisans of the Coliseum are mentioned
in an ancient survey; and the chasms were perforated or enlarged
to receive the poles that supported the shops or tents of the
mechanic trades. ^51 Reduced to its naked majesty, the Flavian
amphitheatre was contemplated with awe and admiration by the
pilgrims of the North; and their rude enthusiasm broke forth in a
sublime proverbial expression, which is recorded in the eighth
century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede: "As long as the
Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome
will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall." ^52 In the
modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would
not be chosen for a fortress; but the strength of the walls and
arches could resist the engines of assault; a numerous garrison
might be lodged in the enclosure; and while one faction occupied
the Vatican and the Capitol, the other was intrenched in the
Lateran and the Coliseum. ^53</p>

<p>[Footnote 49: The fourth part of the Verona Illustrata of the
marquis Maffei professedly treats of amphitheatres, particularly
those of Rome and Verona, of their dimensions, wooden galleries,
&amp;c. It is from magnitude that he derives the name of
<strong><em>Colosseum</em></strong>, or
<strong><em>Coliseum</em></strong>; since the same appellation
was applied to the amphitheatre of Capua, without the aid of a
colossal statue; since that of Nero was erected in the court
(<strong><em>in atrio</em></strong>) of his palace, and not in
the Coliseum, (P. iv. p. 15--19, l. i. c. 4.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 50: Joseph Maria Suar&eacute;s, a learned bishop,
and the author of a history of Pr&aelig;neste, has composed a
separate dissertation on the seven or eight probable causes of
these holes, which has been since reprinted in the Roman
Thesaurus of Sallengre. Montfaucon (Diarium, p. 233) pronounces
the rapine of the Barbarians to be the unam germanamque causam
foraminum. *</p>

<p>Note: * The improbability of this theory is shown by Bunsen,
vol. i. p. 239. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 51: Donatus, Roma Vetus et Nova, p. 285.</p>

<p>Note: Gibbon has followed Donatus, who supposes that a silk
manufactory was established in the xiith century in the Coliseum.
The Bandonarii, or Bandererii, were the officers who carried the
standards of their <strong><em>school</em></strong> before the
pope. Hobhouse, p. 269. -- M.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 52: Quamdiu stabit Colyseus, stabit et Roma; quando
cadet Coly seus, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus,
(Beda in Excerptis seu Collectaneis apud Ducange Glossar. Med. et
Infim&aelig; Latinitatis, tom. ii. p. 407, edit. Basil.) This
saying must be ascribed to the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims who visited
Rome before the year 735 the &aelig;ra of Bede's death; for I do
not believe that our venerable monk ever passed the sea.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 53: I cannot recover, in Muratori's original Lives
of the Popes, (Script Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. i.,) the
passage that attests this hostile partition, which must be
applied to the end of the xiith or the beginning of the xiith
century.</p>

<p>Note: "The division is mentioned in Vit. Innocent. Pap. II. ex
Cardinale Aragonio, (Script. Rer. Ital. vol. iii. P. i. p. 435,)
and Gibbon might have found frequent other records of it at other
dates." Hobhouse's Illustrations of Childe Harold. p. 130. --
M.]</p>

<p>The abolition at Rome of the ancient games must be understood
with some latitude; and the carnival sports, of the Testacean
mount and the Circus Agonalis, ^54 were regulated by the law ^55
or custom of the city. The senator presided with dignity and pomp
to adjudge and distribute the prizes, the gold ring, or the
<strong><em>pallium</em></strong>, ^56 as it was styled, of cloth
or silk. A tribute on the Jews supplied the annual expense; ^57
and the races, on foot, on horseback, or in chariots, were
ennobled by a tilt and tournament of seventy-two of the Roman
youth. In the year one thousand three hundred and thirty-two, a
bull-feast, after the fashion of the Moors and Spaniards, was
celebrated in the Coliseum itself; and the living manners are
painted in a diary of the times. ^58 A convenient order of
benches was restored; and a general proclamation, as far as
Rimini and Ravenna, invited the nobles to exercise their skill
and courage in this perilous adventure. The Roman ladies were
marshalled in three squadrons, and seated in three balconies,
which, on this day, the third of September, were lined with
scarlet cloth. The fair Jacova di Rovere led the matrons from
beyond the Tyber, a pure and native race, who still represent the
features and character of antiquity. The remainder of the city
was divided as usual between the Colonna and Ursini: the two
factions were proud of the number and beauty of their female
bands: the charms of Savella Ursini are mentioned with praise;
and the Colonna regretted the absence of the youngest of their
house, who had sprained her ankle in the garden of Nero's tower.
The lots of the champions were drawn by an old and respectable
citizen; and they descended into the arena, or pit, to encounter
the wild bulls, on foot as it should seem, with a single spear.
Amidst the crowd, our annalist has selected the names, colors,
and devices, of twenty of the most conspicuous knights. Several
of the names are the most illustrious of Rome and the
ecclesiastical state: Malatesta, Polenta, della Valle, Cafarello,
Savelli, Capoccio, Conti, Annibaldi, Altieri, Corsi: the colors
were adapted to their taste and situation; the devices are
expressive of hope or despair, and breathe the spirit of
gallantry and arms. "I am alone, like the youngest of the
Horatii," the confidence of an intrepid stranger: "I live
disconsolate," a weeping widower: "I burn under the ashes," a
discreet lover: "I adore Lavinia, or Lucretia," the ambiguous
declaration of a modern passion: "My faith is as pure," the motto
of a white livery: "Who is stronger than myself?" of a lion's
hide: "If am drowned in blood, what a pleasant death!" the wish
of ferocious courage. The pride or prudence of the Ursini
restrained them from the field, which was occupied by three of
their hereditary rivals, whose inscriptions denoted the lofty
greatness of the Colonna name: "Though sad, I am strong:" "Strong
as I am great:" "If I fall," addressing himself to the
spectators, "you fall with me;" -- intimating (says the
contemporary writer) that while the other families were the
subjects of the Vatican, they alone were the supporters of the
Capitol. The combats of the amphitheatre were dangerous and
bloody. Every champion successively encountered a wild bull; and
the victory may be ascribed to the quadrupeds, since no more than
eleven were left on the field, with the loss of nine wounded and
eighteen killed on the side of their adversaries. Some of the
noblest families might mourn, but the pomp of the funerals, in
the churches of St. John Lateran and St. Maria Maggiore, afforded
a second holiday to the people. Doubtless it was not in such
conflicts that the blood of the Romans should have been shed;
yet, in blaming their rashness, we are compelled to applaud their
gallantry; and the noble volunteers, who display their
magnificence, and risk their lives, under the balconies of the
fair, excite a more generous sympathy than the thousands of
captives and malefactors who were reluctantly dragged to the
scene of slaughter. ^59</p>

<p>[Footnote 54: Although the structure of the circus Agonalis be
destroyed, it still retains its form and name, (Agona, Nagona,
Navona;) and the interior space affords a sufficient level for
the purpose of racing. But the Monte Testaceo, that strange pile
of broken pottery, seems only adapted for the annual practice of
hurling from top to bottom some wagon-loads of live hogs for the
diversion of the populace, (Statuta Urbis Rom&aelig;, p.
186.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 55: See the Statuta Urbis Rom&aelig;, l. iii. c. 87,
88, 89, p. 185, 186. I have already given an idea of this
municipal code. The races of Nagona and Monte Testaceo are
likewise mentioned in the Diary of Peter Antonius from 1404 to
1417, (Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. xxiv. p.
1124.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 56: The <strong><em>Pallium</em></strong>, which
Menage so foolishly derives from
<strong><em>Palmarius</em></strong>, is an easy extension of the
idea and the words, from the robe or cloak, to the materials, and
from thence to their application as a prize, (Muratori, dissert.
xxxiii.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 57: For these expenses, the Jews of Rome paid each
year 1130 florins, of which the odd thirty represented the pieces
of silver for which Judas had betrayed his Master to their
ancestors. There was a foot-race of Jewish as well as of
Christian youths, (Statuta Urbis, ibidem.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 58: This extraordinary bull-feast in the Coliseum is
described, from tradition rather than memory, by Ludovico
Buonconte Monaldesco, on the most ancient fragments of Roman
annals, (Muratori, Script Rerum Italicarum, tom. xii. p. 535,
536;) and however fanciful they may seem, they are deeply marked
with the colors of truth and nature.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 59: Muratori has given a separate dissertation (the
xxixth) to the games of the Italians in the Middle Ages.]</p>

<p>This use of the amphitheatre was a rare, perhaps a singular,
festival: the demand for the materials was a daily and continual
want which the citizens could gratify without restraint or
remorse. In the fourteenth century, a scandalous act of concord
secured to both factions the privilege of extracting stones from
the free and common quarry of the Coliseum; ^60 and Poggius
laments, that the greater part of these stones had been burnt to
lime by the folly of the Romans. ^61 To check this abuse, and to
prevent the nocturnal crimes that might be perpetrated in the
vast and gloomy recess, Eugenius the Fourth surrounded it with a
wall; and, by a charter long extant, granted both the ground and
edifice to the monks of an adjacent convent. ^62 After his death,
the wall was overthrown in a tumult of the people; and had they
themselves respected the noblest monument of their fathers, they
might have justified the resolve that it should never be degraded
to private property. The inside was damaged: but in the middle of
the sixteenth century, an &aelig;ra of taste and learning, the
exterior circumference of one thousand six hundred and twelve
feet was still entire and inviolate; a triple elevation of
fourscore arches, which rose to the height of one hundred and
eight feet. Of the present ruin, the nephews of Paul the Third
are the guilty agents; and every traveller who views the Farnese
palace may curse the sacrilege and luxury of these upstart
princes. ^63 A similar reproach is applied to the Barberini; and
the repetition of injury might be dreaded from every reign, till
the Coliseum was placed under the safeguard of religion by the
most liberal of the pontiffs, Benedict the Fourteenth, who
consecrated a spot which persecution and fable had stained with
the blood of so many Christian martyrs. ^64</p>

<p>[Footnote 60: In a concise but instructive memoir, the
abb&eacute; Barthelemy (M&eacute;moires de l'Acad&eacute;mie des
Inscriptions, tom. xxviii. p. 585) has mentioned this agreement
of the factions of the xivth century de Tiburtino faciendo in the
Coliseum, from an original act in the archives of Rome.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 61: Coliseum . . . . ob stultitiam Romanorum
<strong><em>majori ex parte</em></strong> ad calcem deletum, says
the indignant Poggius, (p. 17:) but his expression too strong for
the present age, must be very tenderly applied to the xvth
century.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 62: Of the Olivetan monks. Montfaucon (p. 142)
affirms this fact from the memorials of Flaminius Vacca, (No.
72.) They still hoped on some future occasion, to revive and
vindicate their grant.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 63: After measuring the priscus amphitheatri gyrus,
Montfaucon (p. 142) only adds that it was entire under Paul III.;
tacendo clamat. Muratori (Annali d'Italia, tom. xiv. p. 371) more
freely reports the guilt of the Farnese pope, and the indignation
of the Roman people. Against the nephews of Urban VIII. I have no
other evidence than the vulgar saying, "Quod non fecerunt
Barbari, fecere Barberini," which was perhaps suggested by the
resemblance of the words.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 64: As an antiquarian and a priest, Montfaucon thus
deprecates the ruin of the Coliseum: Qu&ograve;d si non suopte
merito atque pulchritudine dignum fuisset quod improbas arceret
manus, indigna res utique in locum tot martyrum cruore sacrum
tantopere s&aelig;vitum esse.]</p>

<p>When Petrarch first gratified his eyes with a view of those
monuments, whose scattered fragments so far surpass the most
eloquent descriptions, he was astonished at the supine
indifference ^65 of the Romans themselves; ^66 he was humbled
rather than elated by the discovery, that, except his friend
Rienzi, and one of the Colonna, a stranger of the Rh&ocirc;ne was
more conversant with these antiquities than the nobles and
natives of the metropolis. ^67 The ignorance and credulity of the
Romans are elaborately displayed in the old survey of the city
which was composed about the beginning of the thirteenth century;
and, without dwelling on the manifold errors of name and place,
the legend of the Capitol ^68 may provoke a smile of contempt and
indignation. "The Capitol," says the anonymous writer, "is so
named as being the head of the world; where the consuls and
senators formerly resided for the government of the city and the
globe. The strong and lofty walls were covered with glass and
gold, and crowned with a roof of the richest and most curious
carving. Below the citadel stood a palace, of gold for the
greatest part, decorated with precious stones, and whose value
might be esteemed at one third of the world itself. The statues
of all the provinces were arranged in order, each with a small
bell suspended from its neck; and such was the contrivance of art
magic, ^69 that if the province rebelled against Rome, the statue
turned round to that quarter of the heavens, the bell rang, the
prophet of the Capitol repeated the prodigy, and the senate was
admonished of the impending danger." A second example, of less
importance, though of equal absurdity, may be drawn from the two
marble horses, led by two naked youths, who have since been
transported from the baths of Constantine to the Quirinal hill.
The groundless application of the names of Phidias and Praxiteles
may perhaps be excused; but these Grecian sculptors should not
have been removed above four hundred years from the age of
Pericles to that of Tiberius; they should not have been
transferred into two philosophers or magicians, whose nakedness
was the symbol of truth or knowledge, who revealed to the emperor
his most secret actions; and, after refusing all pecuniary
recompense, solicited the honor of leaving this eternal monument
of themselves. ^70 Thus awake to the power of magic, the Romans
were insensible to the beauties of art: no more than five statues
were visible to the eyes of Poggius; and of the multitudes which
chance or design had buried under the ruins, the resurrection was
fortunately delayed till a safer and more enlightened age. ^71
The Nile which now adorns the Vatican, had been explored by some
laborers in digging a vineyard near the temple, or convent, of
the Minerva; but the impatient proprietor, who was tormented by
some visits of curiosity, restored the unprofitable marble to its
former grave. ^72 The discovery of a statue of Pompey, ten feet
in length, was the occasion of a lawsuit. It had been found under
a partition wall: the equitable judge had pronounced, that the
head should be separated from the body to satisfy the claims of
the contiguous owners; and the sentence would have been executed,
if the intercession of a cardinal, and the liberality of a pope,
had not rescued the Roman hero from the hands of his barbarous
countrymen. ^73</p>

<p>[Footnote 65: Yet the statutes of Rome (l. iii. c. 81, p. 182)
impose a fine of 500 <strong><em>aurei</em></strong> on whosoever
shall demolish any ancient edifice, ne ruinis civitas deformetur,
et ut antiqua &aelig;dificia decorem urbis perpetuo
representent.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 66: In his first visit to Rome (A.D. 1337. See
M&eacute;moires sur P&eacute;trarque, tom. i. p. 322, &amp;c.)
Petrarch is struck mute miraculo rerum tantarum, et stuporis mole
obrutus . . . . Pr&aelig;sentia vero, mirum dict&ucirc; nihil
imminuit: vere major fuit Roma majoresque sunt reliqui&aelig;
quam rebar. Jam non orbem ab h&acirc;c urbe domitum, sed tam sero
domitum, miror, (Opp. p. 605, Familiares, ii. 14, Joanni
Column&aelig;.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 67: He excepts and praises the
<strong><em>rare</em></strong> knowledge of John Colonna. Qui
enim hodie magis ignari rerum Romanarum, quam Romani cives!
Invitus dico, nusquam minus Roma cognoscitur quam
Rom&aelig;.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 68: After the description of the Capitol, he adds,
statu&aelig; erant quot sunt mundi provinci&aelig;; et habebat
qu&aelig;libet tintinnabulum ad collum. Et erant ita per magicam
artem disposit&aelig;, ut quando aliqua regio Romano Imperio
rebellis erat, statim imago illius provinci&aelig; vertebat se
contra illam; unde tintinnabulum resonabat quod pendebat ad
collum; tuncque vates Capitolii qui erant custodes senatui,
&amp;c. He mentions an example of the Saxons and Suevi, who,
after they had been subdued by Agrippa, again rebelled:
tintinnabulum sonuit; sacerdos qui erat in speculo in hebdomada
senatoribus nuntiavit: Agrippa marched back and reduced the --
Persians, (Anonym. in Montfaucon, p. 297, 298.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 69: The same writer affirms, that Virgil captus a
Romanis invisibiliter exiit, ivitque Neapolim. A Roman magician,
in the xith century, is introduced by William of Malmsbury, (de
Gestis Regum Anglorum, l. ii. p. 86;) and in the time of
Flaminius Vacca (No. 81, 103) it was the vulgar belief that the
strangers (the <strong><em>Goths</em></strong>) invoked the
d&aelig;mons for the discovery of hidden treasures.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 70: Anonym. p. 289. Montfaucon (p. 191) justly
observes, that if Alexander be represented, these statues cannot
be the work of Phidias (Olympiad lxxxiii.) or Praxiteles,
(Olympiad civ.,) who lived before that conqueror (Plin. Hist.
Natur. xxxiv. 19.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 71: William of Malmsbury (l. ii. p. 86, 87) relates
a marvellous discovery (A.D. 1046) of Pallas the son of Evander,
who had been slain by Turnus; the perpetual light in his
sepulchre, a Latin epitaph, the corpse, yet entire, of a young
giant, the enormous wound in his breast, (pectus perforat
ingens,) &amp;c. If this fable rests on the slightest foundation,
we may pity the bodies, as well as the statues, that were exposed
to the air in a barbarous age.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 72: Prope porticum Minerv&aelig;, statua est
recubantis, cujus caput integr&acirc; effigie tant&aelig;
magnitudinis, ut signa omnia excedat. Quidam ad plantandas
arbores scrobes faciens detexit. Ad hoc visendum cum plures in
dies magis concurrerent, strepitum adeuentium fastidiumque
pert&aelig;sus, horti patronus congest&acirc; humo texit,
(Poggius de Varietate Fortun&aelig;, p. 12.)]</p>

<p>[Footnote 73: See the Memorials of Flaminius Vacca, No. 57, p.
11, 12, at the end of the Roma Antica of Nardini, (1704, in
4to.)]</p>

<p>But the clouds of barbarism were gradually dispelled; and the
peaceful authority of Martin the Fifth and his successors
restored the ornaments of the city as well as the order of the
ecclesiastical state. The improvements of Rome, since the
fifteenth century, have not been the spontaneous produce of
freedom and industry. The first and most natural root of a great
city is the labor and populousness of the adjacent country, which
supplies the materials of subsistence, of manufactures, and of
foreign trade. But the greater part of the Campagna of Rome is
reduced to a dreary and desolate wilderness: the overgrown
estates of the princes and the clergy are cultivated by the lazy
hands of indigent and hopeless vassals; and the scanty harvests
are confined or exported for the benefit of a monopoly. A second
and more artificial cause of the growth of a metropolis is the
residence of a monarch, the expense of a luxurious court, and the
tributes of dependent provinces. Those provinces and tributes had
been lost in the fall of the empire; and if some streams of the
silver of Peru and the gold of Brazil have been attracted by the
Vatican, the revenues of the cardinals, the fees of office, the
oblations of pilgrims and clients, and the remnant of
ecclesiastical taxes, afford a poor and precarious supply, which
maintains, however, the idleness of the court and city. The
population of Rome, far below the measure of the great capitals
of Europe, does not exceed one hundred and seventy thousand
inhabitants; ^74 and within the spacious enclosure of the walls,
the largest portion of the seven hills is overspread with
vineyards and ruins. The beauty and splendor of the modern city
may be ascribed to the abuses of the government, to the influence
of superstition. Each reign (the exceptions are rare) has been
marked by the rapid elevation of a new family, enriched by the
childish pontiff at the expense of the church and country. The
palaces of these fortunate nephews are the most costly monuments
of elegance and servitude: the perfect arts of architecture,
sculpture, and painting, have been prostituted in their service;
and their galleries and gardens are decorated with the most
precious works of antiquity, which taste or vanity has prompted
them to collect. The ecclesiastical revenues were more decently
employed by the popes themselves in the pomp of the Catholic
worship; but it is superfluous to enumerate their pious
foundations of altars, chapels, and churches, since these lesser
stars are eclipsed by the sun of the Vatican, by the dome of St.
Peter, the most glorious structure that ever has been applied to
the use of religion. The fame of Julius the Second, Leo the
Tenth, and Sixtus the Fifth, is accompanied by the superior merit
of Bramante and Fontana, of Raphael and Michael Angelo; and the
same munificence which had been displayed in palaces and temples
was directed with equal zeal to revive and emulate the labors of
antiquity. Prostrate obelisks were raised from the ground, and
erected in the most conspicuous places; of the eleven aqueducts
of the C&aelig;sars and consuls, three were restored; the
artificial rivers were conducted over a long series of old, or of
new arches, to discharge into marble basins a flood of salubrious
and refreshing waters: and the spectator, impatient to ascend the
steps of St. Peter's, is detained by a column of Egyptian
granite, which rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains,
to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the
description, the monuments of ancient Rome, have been elucidated
by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student: ^75 and the
footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of
empire, are devoutly visited by a new race of pilgrims from the
remote, and once savage countries of the North.</p>

<p>[Footnote 74: In the year 1709, the inhabitants of Rome
(without including eight or ten thousand Jews,) amounted to
138,568 souls, (Labat Voyages en Espagne et en Italie, tom. iii.
p. 217, 218.) In 1740, they had increased to 146,080; and in
1765, I left them, without the Jews 161,899. I am ignorant
whether they have since continued in a progressive state.]</p>

<p>[Footnote 75: The P&egrave;re Montfaucon distributes his own
observations into twenty days; he should have styled them weeks,
or months, of his visits to the different parts of the city,
(Diarium Italicum, c. 8--20, p. 104--301.) That learned
Benedictine reviews the topographers of ancient Rome; the first
efforts of Blondus, Fulvius, Martianus, and Faunus, the superior
labors of Pyrrhus Ligorius, had his learning been equal to his
labors; the writings of Onuphrius Panvinius, qui omnes
obscuravit, and the recent but imperfect books of Donatus and
Nardini. Yet Montfaucon still sighs for a more complete plan and
description of the old city, which must be attained by the three
following methods: 1. The measurement of the space and intervals
of the ruins. 2. The study of inscriptions, and the places where
they were found. 3. The investigation of all the acts, charters,
diaries of the middle ages, which name any spot or building of
Rome. The laborious work, such as Montfaucon desired, must be
promoted by princely or public munificence: but the great modern
plan of Nolli (A.D. 1748) would furnish a solid and accurate
basis for the ancient topography of Rome.]</p>

<p>Of these pilgrims, and of every reader, the attention will be
excited by a History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;
the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of
mankind. The various causes and progressive effects are connected
with many of the events most interesting in human annals: the
artful policy of the C&aelig;sars, who long maintained the name
and image of a free republic; the disorders of military
despotism; the rise, establishment, and sects of Christianity;
the foundation of Constantinople; the division of the monarchy;
the invasion and settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and
Scythia; the institutions of the civil law; the character and
religion of Mahomet; the temporal sovereignty of the popes; the
restoration and decay of the Western empire of Charlemagne; the
crusades of the Latins in the East: the conquests of the Saracens
and Turks; the ruin of the Greek empire; the state and
revolutions of Rome in the middle age. The historian may applaud
the importance and variety of his subject; but while he is
conscious of his own imperfections, he must often accuse the
deficiency of his materials. It was among the ruins of the
Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has
amused and exercised near twenty years of my life, and which,
however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally delivere to the
curiosity and candor of the public.</p>

<p>Lausanne, June 27 1787</p>
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