The vicinity of the Vatican is as fatal to them as to the Christians.

Far from the seat of government, beyond the Apennines, they are less poor, less oppressed, and less despised.

The Israelitish population of Ancona is really a fine race.
It is not to be inferred from this that the agents of the Pope become converts to tolerance by crossing the Apennines.
It is not a year since the Archbishop of Bologna confiscated the boy Mortara for the good of the Convent of the Neophytes.
Only two years ago the Prefect of Ancona revived the old law, which forbids Christians to converse publicly with Jews.
It is not ten years since a merchant of considerable fortune, named P.
Cadova, was deprived of his wife and children by means as remarkable as those employed in the case of young Mortara, although the affair created less sensation at the time.
M.P.Cadova lived at Cento, in the province of Ferrara.

He had a pretty wife, and two children.

His wife was seduced by one of his clerks, who was a Catholic.