A brief account of the subversion of the papal government, 1798

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Pagina 121 - Treasury is created, the statutes of which are laid down in our preceding decree, which is to be considered as complementary of the present decree. "ARTICLE VII. — Our Minister of Finance is charged with the execution of the present decree. "Done at Cairo, the 7th day of May, 1876.
Pagina 155 - ... of the state, and military law the only rational expedient to supply their place. Thus at once the mockery of consular dignity was put an end to, the senators sent home to take care of their families, and the tribunes to blend with the people, whom they before represented. This new and preferable system began its operations with nothing less important for the general welfare, than seizing the whole annual revenue of every estate productive of more than ten thousand crowns...
Pagina 46 - THAT the head of the Church might be made to feel with more poignancy his humiliating situation, the day chosen for planting the tree of liberty on the Capitol was the anniversary of his election to the sovereignty. Whilst he was, according to custom, in the Sistine chapel, celebrating his accession to the papal chair, and receiving the congratulations of the Cardinals, Citizen Haller, the commissary-general, and Cervoni, who then commanded the French troops within the city, gratified themselves...
Pagina 132 - This palace," says Mr. Duppa, which is not yet razed to the ground, nor its villa made an absolute heath, now remains (1798) a melancholy monument of the Vandalism of the eighteenth century. Every statue, every bust, every column, every chimney-piece, every piece of marble that served for ornament or use, was torn from its situation, and was either sent to Paris, or became the perquisite of certain agents employed by the Directory to see that there might be nothing wanting to the entire completion...
Pagina 79 - We were distress" ed for money, and we were obliged to come ; as for the " death of Duphot, it would have been of no consequence, " if there had not been other objects of greater importance
Pagina 134 - Art. 5.— The Council of State is dissolved. "Art. 6. The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree.

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