Again, the turn of the expression, is such as to render it certain, that the authors of the Latin did not think in English. I dare not use the same confidence as to other languages,—but I believe no scholar will deny, that the manner of writing shows that the authors could not have thought either in French or German.—It is probable that one individual put this work originally into form, as we find the expression “_inquam_,”—_I say_, _&c._; and it is nearly certain that that person was a _Spaniard_. For first, the spelling of the Latin is sometimes peculiar, and resembling the Spanish; and secondly, unusual technical words, are drawn from that language. Such are _syndicationibus_, (Chap. vii. 8.) from the _Spanish_, _Sindicado_ (_judicium_,) the judgment or authoritative sentence, instead of the French _Syndical_, which could not express the sense intended; and the German _Syndicat_ which only means the tribunal itself. So also, _Cilicia_, (Chap. vii. 9.,) which passing by the Latin _Cilium_, from which the word might have been formed, and the French _Cilice_, uses almost the very letters of the Spanish _Cilicio_, _a hair shirt_.— Such peculiarities seem to draw down our minds almost irresistibly, to the very band of detestable, ignorant, and yet shrewd conspirators, who originated, and for the first fifty years, controlled this fearful and diabolical corporation. Their very speech betrayeth them. So again the whole turn of thought, in those numerous and most infamous passages which relate to females, and especially to widows, show evidently, that the prevailing ideas were drawn from a state of society neither English, French, nor German, but peculiarly _Spanish_.