OF THE HOMAN EMPIRE.

'* Greeks are alienated by a long series of op-“ pression and injury: they imist be reconciled“ by some act of brotherly love, some effectual“ succour, which may fortify the authority and“ arguments of the emperor, and the friends of‘ the union. 3. If some difference of faith or

ceremonies should be found incurable, the“ Greeks however are thedisciples of Christ; and“ the Turks are the common enemies of the chris-“ tian name. The Armenians , Cyprians, and“ Rhodians , are equally attacked ; and it will“ become the piety of the French princes to draw** their swords in the general defence of religion.“ 4. Should the subjects of Andronicus be treat-“ ed as the worst of schismatics, of heretics, of“ pagans, a judicious policy may yet instruct the“ powers of the West to embrace an useful ally,“■ to uphold a sinking empire, to guard the con-“ fines of Europe ; and rather to join the Greeks“ against the Turks, than to expect the union“ of the Turkish arms with the troops and trea-“ sures of captive Greece .” The reasons, theoffers, and the demands of Andronicus, wereeluded with cold and stately indifference. Thekings of France and Naples declined the dan-gers and glory of a crusade: the pope refused tocall a new synod to determine old articles of faith;and his regard for the obsolete claims of the La-tin emperor and clergy engaged him to use anoffensive superscription; “ To the moderator* of“ the Greeks, and the persons who style them-

b Tlie ambiguity of this title is happy or ingenious ; am] modcratir^as synonymous to rector t gubernutor , is a word of classical, and even Ci-ceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the Glossary of D i-eange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert Stepheus

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