Volume VI Part 34 (2/2)

This order undoubtedly came from the viceroy, and everybody knew the reason

I was sorry to have deprived the people of Barcelona of the only a, and resolved to stay indoors, thinking that would be the nified course I could adopt

Petrarch says,--

'Aentile un cor villano'

If he had known the lover of Nina he would have changed the line into

'Aentile'

In four e business

I should have left Barcelona the sae of superstition made me desire to leave on the last day of the unhappy year I had spent in Spain I therefore spentletters to all o de la Secada, and the Coo de la Secada was the uncle of the Countess A---- B---- whoe as any of the circumstances which had happened to me at Barcelona

On the 26th of December the Abbe Marquisio, the envoy of the Duke of Modena, asked the viceroy, before a considerable nuive me a letter which he could place in no hands but ed to take the letter to Madrid, for which town he was obliged to set out the next day

The count made no answer, to everyone's astonishment, and the abbe left for Madrid the next day, the eve ofset at liberty

I wrote to the abbe, as unknown toout the truth about this letter

There could be no doubt that I had been arrested by the despotic viceroy, who had been persuaded by Nina that I was her favoured lover

The question of ht or ten days would have sufficed to send theain if their authenticity had been doubted Possibly Passano ht have told the viceroy that any passports of mine were bound to be false, as I should have had to obtain the signature of ht have said, was out of the question as I was in disgrace with the Venetian Government As a matter of fact, he was mistaken if he really said so, but the mistake would have been an excusable one

When I ust to leave Madrid, I asked the Count of Aranda for a passport He replied that I must first obtain one from my ambassador, who, he added, could not refuse to do me this service

Fortified with this opinion I called at the embassy M Querini was at San Ildefonso at the time, and I told the porter that I wanted to speak to the secretary of eave himself airs, and pretended that he could not receivethat I had not called to pay my court to the secretary, but to deave ed him to leave the passport with the porter, as I should call for it on the following day

I presented ly, and the porter told me that the ambassador had left verbal orders that I was not to have a passport

I wrote immediately to the Marquis Gri them to request the ambassador to send me a passport in the usual form, or else I should publish the sharaced entlemen shewed my letters to Querini, but I do know that the secretary Oliviera sent me my passport

Thereupon the Count Aranda furnished

On the last day of the year I left Barcelona with a servant who sat behind nan by January 3rd, 1769

The driver was a Piedmontese and a worthy man: The next day he ca, and in the presence offollowed