is supposed that had the made a general attack on the camp immediately on the prince s death they might have delivered their city unhappily long confinement starvation and the secret of had severed the that so long and nobly had bound this unfortunate people captain general of had treated with the enemy and on receiving the s orders to attack the imperial camp he refused well aware he had a party within the walls that would support him the ever since their from had been seeking to regain their position in it and won over by their to his eternal disgrace admitted the enemy into the city how much is achieved by fraud that could never be done by force i nothing no nothing e er shall make us if we unto ourselves will be but true but treachery within the walls of a house or a city the t by of d the uttle city of � equally the garrison the i beholding their submitted in despair to their fate and as a last resource endeavoured to procure honourable terms for their city they obtained the promise of general forgiveness and the preservation under certain of the semblance of liberty but scarcely was the treaty signed before it was broken a mock parliament was assembled consisting only of the of the under whose vote the principal of liberty were banished tortured or put to death and alexander de was proclaimed first grand duke of the republic s day was ended chapter xl of his woes near the hill of so famous for its sweet may still be seen an old tower on used by a great for his hard by is his country house kept till very and perhaps still much as he left it not in that but at a middle sized man with hair and beard of brown and keen blue eyes gazed intently through a with by himself and since known as a and took his first observation through it of the moon it appeared near i � as if it had been distant only two semi of the earth he gazed with intense interest then directed his wondrous instrument towards various and fixed stars which he beheld he tells us with incredible delight the of italy he returned to the moon he was soon able to trace on its of mountains deep hollows and other the dark and luminous spaces he regarded as seas and in different degrees the light of the sun important and as these were they were nothing to what this ardent made on the th of january at one o clock in the morning when directing his glass to the planet he observed three stars near it that were new to him in a straight line subsequent observation on following nights discovered to his amazement that these stars and another four in all round they were in fact his when he announced this discovery the world was in a burst into a fit of laughter from surprise rather than incredulity for a capacity for reasoning the capacity for believing on the other hand the absurd and obstinate would not so much as look through s to see if the thing were so the story of italy because they were sure it could not be would have been ashamed of such stupid however continued to add one brilliant discovery to another and the opposition which they encountered was more a triumph to him than a mortification he laughed merrily said something cutting and went on taking observations at length he announced as a certain fact that the sun did not move round the earth but the earth round the sun the clergy thought this was going a little too far one of them preached against him on his name by choosing for bis text ye men of why stand ye here looking up into heaven he was to the and after examining the charges against him its decree was that he should his doctrines and pledge himself that he would neither teach defend nor publish them in future shrugged his shoulders and promised he was not a martyr of science the system was therefore put down of course the earth could not go round the sun the story of italy if it were forbidden by the diverted his attention to a new method of finding the at sea observe he was not merely an he was a philosopher of the highest kind an into truth of every description except truth however he could not help teaching indirectly what he had denied formally and he did not conceal privately that his belief in the earth s round the sun remained he published a work on his theory in which he spoke of the ignorance of the in and language pope who had given him much support could no longer do so with was summoned to appear before the at rome and his advanced age and health were not allowed to excuse him worn out with illness and fatigue he arrived in borne on the th of february and having his arrival to the awaited its orders at the palace of the his examination commenced in april when h thk of t wm to the holy bnt the with which his were attended to was indeed contrasted with ihe conduct of the table was by die his own waited on him and slept in an adjoining apartment he fretted himself ill and the pope s cardinal him on his own responsibility and al him to to the s palace after the had examined he was allowed to defend himself which he did with some attempt at which was into an a of his offence on the day appointed for him to hear his sentence he was clothed in a dress and then conducted to his judges a long and tedious of his errors was read which he was told deserved but that this 