vehicle on which HE SITS, and is borne on the shoulders of men, is called SEDIA Gestatoria,' 'The Carried SEAT:' and this subject will receive further confirmation and illustration from the words of the Sieur A. De La Motraye, who says,

2" La premiere fois que je vis le Pape en public, ce fut dans la Grande et Magnifique Eglise de St. Pierre, le 28 de Juin, veille de la Fête de ce Saint. Ce Pontife y étoit déja quand j'y arrivai, et assistoit aux premieres Vêpres, AssIs sur un TRÔne, avec une riche MITRE sur sa Téte, la Falda, (espece de jupe à longue queue, qui s' attache à la ceinture,) attachée à sa Ceinture, revêtu de la Chappe Pontificale, faite d'une belle étoffe Rouge, dout on use aux Fêtes des Martirs. Cette chappe étoit relevée d'une riche broderie, et attachée par une espece de crochet, ou de bouche d'or appellée pectoral, qui étoit enrichie de pierreries, estimeés plus de 50 Mille écus.' 'The first time I saw the POPE in public was in the GREAT and MAGNIFICENT CHURCH of St. Peter the 28th of June, the Eve of the Fête of this Saint. This Pontiff was already there when I arrived, and was SEATED on a THRONE, assisting at the first Vespers, with a Rich Mitre on his Head, and the Falda (a sort of Petticoat with a long train) attached to his Girdle. wore the Pontifical Cope made of fine Red stuff, which is used at the Fête of Martyrs. This Garment was turned up with a rich embroidery, and fastened

He

1 Edward Wright's Travels through Italy, &c. Vol. i. p. 191. London 1730. 2 Sieur A. De La Motraye, Tom. i. Chap. ii. page 21, 22. A La Haye 1696.

by a kind of hook or buckle of Gold, called pectoral, which was enriched with precious stones, estimated at more than fifty thousand crowns.'

The Sieur A. De la Motraye, in one of the fourteen particulars which he mentions relative to the Pontifical Procession, tells us in the tenth, of the SEAT, and manner of the Pope being carried on the Day of his CORONATION.

'X. LE SOUVERAIN PONTIFE, avec la même Thiare, et les mêmes habillemens qu'il avoit la veille. Il etoit sur un Riche et Magnifique, SIEGE, porté par huit hommes en longues robbes Rouge," &c. 'X. The SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, with the same TIARA, and the same habiliments which he wore on the Eve of St. Peter. He sat upon a RICH and MAGNIFICENT SEAT carried by eight Men in long Red Robes,' &c.

The same Author (Motraye) remarks that the SEat, and prodigious stretch of SPIRITUAL POWER of the ROMAN PONTIFF was such, that it was commonly said of Rome in his day, that it had gained by RELIGION, that which it could not formerly conquer by Arms, as we may see by the verse following. The original words are from Prosper, Lib. de ingratis, Cap. 2.

SEDES ROMA PETRI, quæ pastoralis honoris

Facta CAPUT mundo, quicquid non possidet Armis
RELIGIONE TENET.'

'Rome the See or SEAT of Peter, which is made to the world the HEAD of Pastoral Honour, whatever it does not possess by ARMS, it holds by RELIGION.'

1 Voyages du Sr. Motraye, Tom. I. chap. i. page 4.

The same writer informs us, that the Pontiff ranks himself with Emperors as a Temporal Prince; but he places himself ABOVE them by the Quality of a Spiritual Prince, and this fact is practically acknowledged in WORDS and DEEDS-in WORDS by Pope 16 LEO THE GREAT.'

· Per sacram D. Petri SEDEM, Caput orbis effecta, (Roma) latius præsides religione divinâ, quamvis enim multis aucta victoriis, Jus Imperii tui, terra marique protuleris, minus tamen est, quod tui bellicus labor subdidit, quam quod pax Christiana subjecit.' That is, By the holy See or SEAT of St. Peter (o Rome), thou being made the Head of the World, commandest further by divine Religion, than by earthly domination for albeit, being augmented by many victories, thou hast extended the power of the Empire both by sea and land, yet that is less, which the labour of war hath subdued to thee, than that which Christian Peace hath brought under subjection.'

In DEEDS, when they have literally kicked the crown from the heads of 2EMPERORS, and caused KINGS to stand barefoot at their gates, as in the cases of the Emperor HENRY the VIth, whose crown Pope CELESTINE, with his foot, spurned from off his head, to show, that it was in his power to take the Empire from him, and to pull off his crown; and of

1 1 Leo Magnus, Serm. I. De Natali Apostolorum. See Durham on the Revelations, chap. xiii. page 562. Amsterdam, 1660.

2 See The Buckler of the Faith,' by Peter du Moulin, from page 522 to 544; and Bishop Jewell's Apology for the Church of England,' by Isaacson, page 270 to 276. 1829.

Henry the IVth of France: King John of England : Henry the IInd, and Prince Henry the VIIIth : so that there is a complete coincidence between the words of St. Paul and St. John, in reference to the locality of the "GREAT CITY" and " Temple of God," in which this LATIN Papal MAN SITTEth, and to the unqualified power which he exerciseth, being no less than "ALL the POWER of the FIRST BEAST." Moreover, The pretended CHAIR of St. Peter, in which the Sovereign Pontiff SITs enthroned on the HIGH ALTAR in ST. PETER'S BASILIQUE, when he is crowned, as well as when he receives adoration from Emperors, Kings, and their Eminences the Cardinals, &c. is so well known to all Europe as scarcely to need a remark. The French would say of the City and SEAT of the Pope's jurisdiction or dignity, Le Saint SIÈGE,'' Le SIÈGE de Rome.' The Holy SEE or SEAT of Rome.' And St. John crowns the whole by saying that "THE DRAGON gave him his POWER, and his SEAT, and Great AUTHORITY."

It is an astonishing Fact, and scriptural coincidence, that the most magnificent of all the Triple Crowns, or Papal Tiaras, is one which was made by order of Pope JULIUS the IInd, and that Pope GREGORY the XIIIth, removed the simple CROss which was formerly upon the top of it, and replaced it by a most brilliant EMERALD, Supported by two gold DRAGONS, causing his own Arms to be quartered therewith, and then placed his own Name and Title upon it in Letters of of Diamonds, after the following manner

GREGOR. XIII. PONT. OPT. MAX.

So that the Title of PONTIFEX MAXIMUS' The greatest Priest,' was not a sufficient Title of distinction for Pope Gregory the XIII. but OPTIMUS,' 'THE BEST,' must be added, and then, as if the Papal Tiara were hitherto incomplete, two gold DRAGONS were placed on it, to give grandeur to the Diadem. In a word, WHEN Pope Gregory the XIIIth had removed the simple CROSS, and voluntarily placed two gold DRAGONS upon the top of his Tiara, and at the bottom placed his own Name and Title in Letters of Diamonds, and quartered them with his Coat of Arms, THEN he designated himself by the Title of

PONTIFEX OPTIMUS MAXIMUS,' THE GREATEST AND BEST PRIEST.' Is not this an Heraldic and Hereditary, (I might say scriptural) acknowledgment of the SEAT of the DRAGON? of whom it is written that "The DRAGON gave him his Power, and his SEAT," (viz. ROME,) "and great Authority." A very large and splendid engraving of this TIARA may be seen in the Voyages of the Sieur A. De La Motraye, Vol. I. chap. ii. page 32. plate IV. than which no Kingly Crown can be more magnificent, if we may be allowed to judge from appearances. The following is the Court account of it as set forth by the Sieur Motraye, page 30.

'La plus prétieuse des THIARES fait par l'ordre de JULES II, Genois de Nation, l'an 7me de son Pontificat, et representée à la Planche IV, dont le fond est tout couvert de belles perles. Les cercles sont d'or