New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-27

4
lion. Of which she knew nothing, TO the RcPublic
| Of Venice. Brescia. like this Psdua. lies uhdef
| the dominion Of YOUR republic. An Ambassador
| OF Venice had passed at the time the crowd nah
laughed a Senator Of the Republic was ATTRACTED
| to the spot he listened my mother, quite unc"'-
| scious, singing; he ordered tie captain q"
me guard TO take that vile woman to the ga.io"s'
,e-, to The galcws They seized upon my mother :
.ne said nothing; why should she ? they would no.
! have heard her She embraced me- and Jet iah
| her large tens upon my forehead she cia-Pr" 10
| her bosom little metal cruciix she always oa'-
red with her. and let them bind her. see IL NOW
that cfucifx. It was Of polished copper ana Ut!
name Tbissia. was rudely traced at the bottom o.
| II with the sharp point OF q heedie' 'he "''
IA unire in the same memorial all that Wa dear 20
t~. b., God and her child. | saw them bad my
| mother: | could not utter word Lether C'''"
nor went stood motionls,s. agba.t, frozen, dead
| Va one in all the crowd spoke word. But there
| vas with the Senator Young enl who held nm
| by the hand doubtless ms daughter. VINO wa
struck with pity The beautiful child; he tire"
herself at the feet Of her father, she wePt 80 bit
terl, and her tears fell ircm eyes 80 lovely, u'i
she Obtained the pardon OF my mother. men
the poor woman unloosed she took heI 'ru'l-
| fix and rave II TO the chi!d-twas all she tad e"
| eve-and told her II would bring her happiness
| soon after this nv mother died. have tecoHs
| rich | wish 10 tha, child. that Intant-angei
who saved my mother. Who knows she j. no"
crown up 10 womanhood; she j. probably unhap-
Nv: she NAV now have need Of me- In every town
vist. | call before me the sbirri. the men u po-
| lice: | relate this adventure, and to him who finds
ont the person ! am in search Of | vii give ten
| thousand golden sequins. For this reason spoke
| 10 Nirga Pasca, the masked cavalier, under the
| nOr;jco Are YOU satisfied p
Ten Thousand golden sequlns /" said Angelo
'What, then, will you give to the woman herself
| # you should find her
| " Nv life if it will profit her"
But how could You recognise her
"By my mothers crucifx.'
| "Pooh! she will long since have lost piece Of
worthless copper
| No. no. no :" exclaimed Thisbia; " We never
lose what has been earned ike that. And now,
| Angelo said the pretty actress, returning 70 her
natural gaeiy of manner, "any more questions
OF i your Jealous curiosity appcased for the pre-
~entl Why, what n sombrc aspect YOU continual
y wear, you, too, who all powerful in Venice
| In vain light up my house, my gardens ! cannot
| light up smile upon your csuntcnance. In vain
! give you music; you return it rot in calety
Pryrhcc smile"
81 do smile" said the podesta, wrcathing his
visage into what certainly needed the assurance OF
his word to certify that it smile You
wonder my dear Ihisbia that arr not gay. have
heard Your srory-hcar something of mine. am
| you say, all-powcrful here in Fadua the SOW
ereign and tyrant of this town. But absolute as
ana, above me-mark you, Thisbia-,hcre i some
thing greater; dark, full Of shadows, terrible;
there is Venice, the -Inquisition, the Council
Of Ten. The Council of Ten speak of it in
whisper there is always n listener near. They
are men whom no one knows: who know Us all
who are visible in Ct the forms and ccrcmo-
MES Of government, who visible in every scat
fold that is raised men who have their hands on
all heads yours, minc-that of the Doge himself;
who wear no rovai robe, ducal mantle, crown;
nothing to designate them to the eye; who, Tor ali
apparatus Of power, have few secret signs-the
spy. and the cxecutioner Men who speak to the
peopleuf Venice only through the bronze mouth Of
| the lion Of St. Marx fatal mouth, which you may
| think is mute, but which speaks, nevertheless, with
terrible effect, for it cries TO all that pass--Dc-
nounce denounce. and the wretch once denounced
| il taken; once taken, is powcrless as the worm
At Venice every thing Is done secretly mysterious
", surely. Condemned executed no ono to see,
10 hear you not a cry possible, not a look that Is
returned bv humas eve tie victim has gag,
the cxecutioner mask. But why did speak Just
now Of scafiods 7 At Venice men die not on the
scaiold. They disappear. A man is missing from
his family What has become of him? Oh, the
leads. the wells, the canal Oriano-hcy could tell
At nighttime YOU may hear something fall into the
| water pass on-hear ii not Venice, for the rest,
dance and iest,ity, music and torches, gondolas,
theatres and a carnival of five months. You,
rh.bia Il comedian, see Venice only on this side ;
| who am a Senator, know it on the Oifcr. oh,
believe me, there is in every palacc-ln mihe' i"
,hat Of the Doge-a secret passage, unknown To
the master Of it, that traverses along the walls OF
every salon of every chamber, of every closet; II
| dark corridor, Of which others have the key, and
| whose windngs others trace and through which
| men pass and rcpass utterly auknownto you, upon
| some mysterious business. OF which you arr kept
profoundly ignorant Ofien in the nighttime,
have sat upright in my bed and heard steps with
| IN the wall. Oh this Council of Ten Put work.
| mau alone in a cellar; bid him make YOU lock A;
before tho lock is finished the Council Of Ten have
the key of it. Madam. madam. the valet who
waits me ia spy the friend who salutes NE
j. II spy; the priest who confc.ses me l. a spy; the
woman who swcars she loves me is spy -
Indeed. Signor,' interrupted Ihisbia.
mean not Won" continued the excited podcs-
Ia; land moreover YOU never say that yeu love
me. Every thing, repeat, that sees me Is an eye
Of The Ten; every thing that hears me i, an ear
Of The Ten; every thing that touches me is a band
| OF The l en-: Row ierrlole that ioi iohs time
gently feels, then se1es with sudden and pltess
grasp. Magnificent Podes,a that am Ii Is my
mission here to tame and sublugatc this town; ii
is my command to make myself terrible; mean
while | cannot be sure that tomorrow morning
hero shall not appear in my chamber some miscr-
able sbirro, who shall tell me to rise and follow
him, aud miserable wretch though he may be, |
shall rise and follow him-and where To some
horrible and cavcrnous place from which he Will
issue without me. Tyrant Of Padua slave OF
Venice :"
Truly pity YOU. replied Thi.bis; what a
frishtful position hsye YOU described -
"lcs, am an instrument with which one peo-
MI, ,nr,ures another nconle Sucb t,-ls veor ouf