The Due de Persigny has published a pamphlet on the
Roman question as the result of his visit to Rome, which looks not un- like an attempt to break to Italy the intelligence that if the Pope does quit Rome, France will not rd the Convention of the 15th September last with Italy as b' but will again put in an army to retain the remaining n provinces for the Pope
till he chooses to return. tt yl " says the Duke to the Ultramontanee, on e by Ilb Pope's flight from Rome, " nothing will be easier than to organize Rome according to the order of ideas which is to re-unite the interests of the Holy See with the Italian sentiments of the populatioff. In union with the Catholic Powers and with Italy herself, we shall establish at -Rome a provisional Government to administer the States of the Church in the name of the Pope, and to introduce during his absence the necessary reforms . . . Whether our troops are or are not at Rome, we shall take, if need be, the necessary precautions to maintain tranquillity" [which means, ' We shall send them back there']. " and the Eternal City will await peaceably the day when it may please the Holy Father to return, and to resume at the seat of the Papacy the• throne of his pre- decessor, relieved from all ne causes which endangered its security." This looks very much like guaranteeing Rome against Italy, and seems to us a complete breach of the spirit of the Convention of last year. Italy will do well, if this is the view of the French Emperor, to agree with her Papal adversary quickly, while she is in the way with him, lest at any time he re-deliver himself to the French.
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