So bad is now the state of Rome that, according
to the Post, the Princess Corsini, desiring to attend a reception st the Colonna Palace, and wishing to wear her jewels, was compelled to demand an escort of the Papal Dragoon Guards. The citizens assert that they have absolutely no protection, that the police are brigands in uniform, and that no redress is to be obtained in the most ordinary case of robbery except through the French authorities. If the latter interfere, Mgr. de ?delude makes a point of refusing the request, and the poor Romans are therefore crushed by the French, pillaged by the brigands, and neglected by the Govern- ment which ought either to protect or to surrender them. If they resist the French intruders, they are imprisoned ; if they object to the brigands in uniform, they are arrested; and if they sup- port the authorities who do nothing for them, they are pretty sure to be surrendered to one or the other of the other two hostile Powers. It is a happy life which infallibility produces in its capital
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