If you should ever hear again of the person you have, at your own
expense, sent to Batavia, we shall be glad to know."
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What can be said of the good old German's feelings, but that they may
"be more easily conceived than described?"--_Monthly Magazine._
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NEW BOOKS.
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OTWAY'S "VENICE PRESERVED."
(Hundreds of our readers who have again and again heard
Belvidera pour her soul in love--
may not be aware of the precise historical connexion of the incidents of
Otway's play with the events of history. They are taken, in the main,
from an atrocious conspiracy formed at Venice in 1618. Sir Henry Wotton,
then English ambassador at Venice, writes as follows on the 25th of May,
in the above year:--"The whole town is here at present in horror and
confusion upon the discovering of a foul and fearful conspiracy of the
French against this state; whereof no less than thirty have already
suffered very condign punishment, between men strangled in prison,
drowned in the silence of the night, and hanged in public view; and yet
the bottom is invisible.
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