Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-04
Alexandria, June A, tsiS.
Communicated for rhs Gazette.
IxrRAvAeANr rRorLIeAcY.

In the grea, chamber Of the ducal pa
lace in Venice, where the portraits Of
the doges are placed, travellers are shown
vacant space between two portraits,
bearing upon It this inscription
Locus .Narini FaiL'eri decapirati.
British travellers, and travellers OF the
bon-ton, have something else to do, as
they fly through Europe, beside exanin-
ing into curious historical facts and anec-
dotes. An inquirer who wished ~ profit
pv his journey. however n being shown
this space, would. in all probability, have
a Iaudable curiosity excited by the in
scription; in which case he would be told
that it sprung out Of the discovery and
defeat Of the most monstrous project Of
inkumanity and murder that ever entered
into the contemplation OF the human
heart. 1t was conspiracy devised and
carried on BY the doge himself Had am
b.ion, or the augmentation Of his own
power been the object, it would not have
been so very astonishing, nor perhaps all
t-gether SO detestable-but his motive
was as low and little, as his intention
was wicked and terrible
in the year 1855, Marine FalIieri,
doge Of Venice, being thea eighty years
Of age. was rash enough to marry very
young woman. Taking It into her had
that she had been affronted by young
Venetian nobleman at public ball, this
lady complained bitterly Of the supposed
insult, to her husband. The old man,
who had all the desire imaginable to
please his wife, determined, il this mat
ter at least, to give her ample satisfac.
tion.
The delinquent was brought before the
Judges, and the crime was exaggerated
with all the eloqaence that money could
purchase but they viewed the affair with
unprejudiced eyes, and pronounced a
:. ntence no m"re than adequate to the
offence. The doge was filled with ex-
travsgant rage, and finding that the body
OF the nubies tuok no share In his wrath,
he entered into conspiracy with the sd.
miral Of the arsenal, and some others
who were discontinued with the govern
ent on other accounts, and projected
scheme Of the most atFocious kind, for
indicating his wife's honor. II was re.
,olved by those desperadOes to massacre
the whole grand council. Such scene
Of bloodshed on account of one woman
had not been imagined since The Trojan
war.
The plot was conducted with morese-
cresy than could have been expected
from man who seems to have been de-
prived of reason as well as humanity
Every thing was prepared /; and the day
previou, to that which vas fixed for the
execution had arrived without any per-
son, but those concerned in the conspi-
racy, having the least knowledge OF the
"orrid design, when it was discovered IN
the same name, in which that against
the king aud parliament OF England was
brought to light in the reign oil king
James the first. Bertrand Bergamese,
one of the conspirators, being DESTROYS 70
save Nicholas Lioni, noble Venetian,
from the general massacre, called on
him, and admonlshed him, on no account
to leave his house on the following day;
for, il he did, he would certainly lose his
life. Lioni Pr essed him to give some rea-
son for this extraordinary advice which
the other Oh, tinately refusing, Lioni or.
dered him to be seized, and confined;
and sending for some Of his friends OF the
senate, by means OF promises and threats,
they at length prevailed on the prisoner
70 discover the whole Of the horrid mys-
terry.
They sent for the avogadors, the coun.
Gil Of ten, and other high officers, BY
whom the prisoner was examined after
which orders were given for seizing the
principal conspirators in their houses,
and for summoniug those OF the nobility
ard Citizen nm whose fidelity the cnun-