We are touching upon that great historical question which has been so much disputed: was the St. Bartholomew a design, long ago determined upon and prepared for, of Charles IX.

"Bartholomew is as honest a man as lives, in his own belief.

[Bartholomew was the messenger of Christ in India, the extremity of the whole earth.]The words printed in Italics are added in translating, by the present editor, to complete the obvious sense.