....
Every one considers that it has taken place by the just judgment (p. 172)
of God, because the Court of Rome was so ill-ruled.... We are
expecting to hear from your Majesty how the city is to be governed and
whether the Holy See is to be retained or not. Some are of opinion it
should not continue in Rome, _lest the French King should make a
patriarch in his kingdom, and deny obedience to the said See, and the
King of England find all other Christian princes do the same_."[488]

[Footnote 486: Buonaparte's _Narrative_, ed.
Buchon, p. 190, ed. Milanesi, p. 279; _cf._
Gregorovius, _Gesch. der Stadt Rom._, viii., 568
_n._, and Alberini's _Diary_, ed. Drano 1901
(extracts are printed in Creighton, _Papacy_, ed.
1901, vi., 419-37).]

[Footnote 487: Cardinal Como in _Il Sacco di Roma_,
ed. C. Milanesi, 1867, p. 471.]

[Footnote 488: _Il Sacco di Roma_, ed. Milanesi,
pp. 499, 517.]

So low was brought the proud city of the Seven Hills, the holy place,
watered with the blood of the martyrs and hallowed by the steps of the
saints, the goal of the earthly pilgrim, the seat of the throne of the
Vicar of God. No Jew saw the abomination of desolation standing where
it ought not with keener anguish than the devout sons of the Church
heard of the desecration of Rome. If a Roman Catholic and an
imperialist could term it the just judgment of God, heretics and
schismatics, preparing to burst the bonds of Rome and "deny obedience
to the said See," saw in it the fulfilment of the woes pronounced by
St. John the Divine on the Rome of Nero, and by Daniel the Prophet on
Belshazzar's Babylon. Babylon the great was fallen, and become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit; her ruler was
weighed in the balances and found wanting; his kingdom was divided and
given to kings and peoples who came, like the Medes and the Persians,
from the hardier realms of the North.

CHAPTER VII. (p. 173)

THE ORIGIN OF THE DIVORCE.[489]

[Footnote 489: It is impossible to avoid the term
"divorce," although neither from Henry VIII.'s nor
from the Pope's point of view was there any such
thing (see the present wri