Capitolo 91
complaints of his/her subjects, you force to calculate with public opinion him,
it declares that he has secularized everything. "You Count my officials,"
he says:
"I have 14,576 laymen in my service. You/he/she has been her said that
cleric monopolize the public service. Show me these
ecclesiastical! The de of Account that Rayneval has looked for them, and
you/he/she could find but ninety-eight; and also of those, the greatest
depart is not in the orders of priests! Us is insured we have from a lot
since then broken with the ecclesiastical _regime_. Me I decreed
the admissibility of laymen to all the offices but one. In order
for of the time to show my sincerity, I had secular ministers! ME
submitted the finances to a mere accountant, the department
of the justice to a small dark promoter, and that of war to
a man of business to that you/he/she had been a lot of intendant
Cardinals. I admit that for the time being us we don't have laymen in
the Office; but my subjects can take comfort from
reflecting that the law doesn't prevent me to name
them.
"In the provinces, out of eighteen prefects, I named,
three laymen. If I replaced after prelates for those
three, were because the people noisily asked for the
change. It is it my guilt if the people don't respect nothing but the
ecclesiastical attire?"
This style of defense can deceive some good easy people; but I think if
I was Pope, or Minister of State, or also a simple supporter of the
Pontifical administration, I should prefer to say the simple truth.
That truth is severely logic, it is in conformity with the principle
of the Government; it emanates from the Constitution. Things are
precisely what they should be, if not for the welfare of the people,
at least for the greatness, the safety and the satisfaction of his/her storm
head.
Truth is then that all the ministers, all the prefects all the
ambassadorial, all the dignitaries of court and all the judges of the
superior courts, are ecclesiastical; what a the Secretary of the