As Le Commandeur De Sillery, who was ambassador from France to the Pope, was one day walking with the Venetian ambassador, in the square before the beautiful church of the Gesu, at Rome (where it seems there is always air, even in the hottest day of summer), he said to him, “What an odd thing it is that there should be always something of a breeze here?  Can your excellency account for it?” “Perfectly well,” replied the Venetian, “upon a tradition that has been long current in this city.  The devil and the wind were one day walking together in the streets of Rome, when, coming to the Jesuits’ College in this place, the devil said to the wind, ’Pray be so good as to stay here a minute or two, I have a word to say to these good fathers within.’  The devil, as the story goes, never returned to his companion, who has been ever since waiting for him at the door.”

J.G.B.

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LORD BYRON.

On Saturday next, a SUPPLEMENT of
PIQUANT EXTRACTS
FROM
MOORE’S LIFE OF LORD BYRON,
Vol.  II.

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