[27] There is Old and New Goa. The old city is about eight miles up the river. The viceroy and the Chief Portuguese inhabitants reside at New Goa, which is at the mouth of the river, within the forts of the harbour. The old city, where the Inquisition and the churches are, is now almost entirely deserted by the secular Portuguese, and is inhabited by the priests alone. The unhealthiness of the place, and the ascendency of the priests, are the causes assigned for abandoning the ancient city. [28] Even the viceroy of Goa himself has no authority over the Inquisition, nay, is liable to its censures. Were the British government, for instance, to prefer a complaint against the Inquisition to the Portuguese government at Goa, it could obtain no redress. By the very constitution of the Inquisition, there is no power in India which can invade its jurisdiction, or even put a question to it on any subject. [29] When the Portuguese possessions in India, several years ago, came under British sway, the Inquisition at Goa was abolished, and the very building, which was the scene of such horrid cruelties, has fallen into decay. In Spain, too, this monstrous institution no longer exists.—[_Editor of the Presbyterian._] APPENDIX. No. I. Articles of Torquemada, for regulating the proceedings of the Inquisition, drawn up in 1484. 1. The first article regulates the manner in which the establishment of the Inquisition shall be announced in the country where it is to be introduced. 2. An edict shall be published, accompanied by censures against those who do not accuse themselves voluntarily during the term of grace. 3. A delay of thirty days shall be appointed for heretics to declare themselves. 4. All voluntary confessions shall be written in the presence of the Inquisitors and a clerk. 5. Absolution shall not be given secretly to any person voluntarily confessing, unless no individual is acquainted with his crime. 6. A part of the penance imposed on a reconciled heretic, shall consist in his being deprived of all honourable employments, and of the use of gold, silver, silk, &c. 7. Pecuniary penalties to be imposed on all who make a voluntary confession. 8. The person who accuses himself after the term of grace, cannot be exempted from the punishment of confiscation. 9. If persons under twenty years of age accuse themselves, after the term of grace, and it is proved that they were drawn into error by their parents, a light punishment shall be inflicted. 10. The Inquisitors shall declare in their act of reconciliation, the exact time when the offender fell into heresy, that the portion of property to be confiscated may be ascertained. 11. If a heretic, while in prison, demands absolution, and appears to feel true repentance, it may be granted, imposing at the same time perpetual imprisonment.