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BARTHOLOMEW BARTLETT 340 his life by surprising the Louvre, making prison- ers of the royal family, and putting to death the duke of Guise and the leaders of the Cath- olics ; that the plot was revealed by one of the council whose conscience revolted from such a crime ; that his deposition was confirmed in the mind of the king by the violent and un- dutiful expressions uttered by Coligni in the royal presence ; that having but the interval of a few hours to deliberate, he had hastily given permission to the duke of Guise and his friends to execute justice on his and their friends ; and that if, from the excited passions of the populace, some innocent persons had perished with the guilty, it has been done con- trary to his intention, and has given him the most heartfelt sorrow." The balance of evi- dence evinces that the original plan, formed by Catharine de 1 Medici and the duke of Guise, was simply to disorganize the Huguenot party by the murder of Coligni, their recognized leader; that the partial failure of this threw the court into alarm, and the weak king, per- suaded that his person was in danger, consented to issue the order for the massacre, which, as expressed by Lingard, " was not originally contemplated, but grew out of the unexpected failure of the attempt already made upon the life of the admiral." A grave question has arisen as to the supposed complicity of the papal court in the massacre. The despatches of the papal nuncio at Paris seem to set this | question at rest. On the very day of the mas- sacre he wrote to the cardinal secretary at Rome an account of the matter. A month later (Sept. 22), in reply to inquiries for more detailed information, he wrote: "The queen regent, having become jealous of the admiral, came to the resolution a few days before, and caused the arquebuse to be discharged at him without the knowledge of the king, but with the participation of the duke of Anjou, and of the duchess of Nemours, and of her son the duke of Guise. Had he died immediately, no one else would have perished. But he did not die, and they began to expect some great evil ; wherefore, closeting themselves in consultation with the king, they determined to throw shame aside, and to cause him to be assassinated with the others ; a determination which was carried into execution that very night." This account was contained in a cipher despatch from the nuncio at Paris to the government at Rome, which would hardly have asked information about a conspiracy in which they had borne a part ; and the nuncio, in a secret despatch, would hardly have spoken in terms of such condemnation of a plot in which his superiors were implicated. These secret despatches were first published almost two centuries after. A solemn Te Deum over the event was sung at Rome by the order of Pope Gregory XIII.; but it must be borne in mind that, according to the accounts then at hand, the affair grew out of an unsuccessful conspiracy against the French government and the Catholic church ; and the Te Deum belonged to the same category with the one sung shortly before for the vic- tory gained at Lepanto over the Turks. Nuth- dorf, a German student who professed to have been an eye witness of the massacre, left a nar- rative of it in Latin, which has been recently discovered in France, and is said to be in course of publication (1872). BARTLETT, Kllsha, an American physician and author, born in Smithfield, R. I., in 1805, died there, July 18, 1855. He graduated from the medical department of Brown university in 1826, spent a year in Europe, and commenced practice in Lowell, Mass. He delivered the course of lectures on pathological anatomy at the Berkshire medical institute in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1832, and in 1839 lectured at Dart- mouth college. Subsequently he held pro- fessorships in Transylvania college, Lexington, Ky. (1841), the university of Maryland (1844), Lexington again (1840), Louisville (1849), and the university of New York (1850) ; and from 1851 till his death he held the chair of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in the col- lege of physicians and surgeons in New York. While occupied in these different situations during the autumn and winter, he also delivered from 1843 to 1852 the lectures at the Vermont medical college, Woodstock, in the spring and summer. He wrote " Essay on Philosophy of Medical Science " (1844) ; " Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine" (1848); "The Fevers of the United States " (1850) ; "Discourse on the Times, Character, and Works of Hippocrates " (1852) ; and a volume of verses entitled " Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures from Mr. Dickens's Gallery" (1855); and edited "The Monthly Journal of Medical Literature " at Lowell. BARTLETT, lehabod, an American lawyer, born in Salisbury, N. II., in 1780, died in Portsmouth, N. H., Oct. 19, 1853. He was educated at Dartmouth college, and commenced the practice of law in Durham, but soon re- moved to Portsmouth, where he spent the rest of his life. He is celebrated as an opponent of Webster and Mason. He was seven years in the state legislature, a representative in con- gress (1823-'9), and a member of the state constitutional convention of 1850. BARTLETT, John Rnssell, an American author, born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 1805. He was early placed in a banking house, and was for six years cashier of the Globe bank at Providence. While there he was one of the original projectors of the Providence athenssum and an active member of the Franklin society, before which he occasionally lectured. In 1837 he engaged in business in a commission house in New York, in which he was unsuc- cessful. He then took part in establishing there the bookstore of Bartlett and Welford, chiefly for the importation of foreign works. He became at this time one of the active managers of the New York historical society, and was a projector of the American ethno-