Capitolo 92
_Brevi_ and the _Memoriali_ the Presidents and Vice-presidents of the
State Council and the Board of Department of Internal Revenue, the Manager-general of
the Police, the Manager of Public Health and Jails the Manager of
the file, the lawyer-general of the Fisc the President and the
Secretary of the _Cadastro_ the Agricultural President and Committee,
it is the ecclesiastics_ of _all. The public education is in the hands of
ecclesiastical, under the direction of thirteen Cardinalses. All the
benevolent establishments, all the funds applicable to the relief of
the poor man, is the patrimony of ecclesiastical managers. Congregations
of Cardinals causes decide in their times of ease and the Bishops of
the kingdom is so many living courts.
Because you try to conceal from so natural Europe an order of things?
Face rather Europe is what did when it reactivated a priest
on the throne in Rome.
All the offices that confer power or profit belong to the Pope before,
then to the Minister of State, then to the Cardinals, and lately to
the Prelates. Each takes his/her action according to the hierarchical one
order; and when all are satisfied, the crumbs of the power are thrown
the nation to great; in the other words, the 14,596 places that no
cleric chooses to take, particularly the office separate of
_Guardia Campestre_, a kind of rural police. Any need wonders to
such distribution of places. In the government of Rome, the Pope is,
everything, the Minister of State is almost everything the Cardinals,
it is anything and the priests on the road to become anything. The
Nation_ of _lay that he marries and it gives in marriage and peoples the
You affirm, it is not anything--it will be never anything.
The word that _prelate_ is fallen by my pen; I will make a break a moment to
you explain his/her precise meaning. Among us it is sufficiently a title
respected: to Rome it is far this way. We don't have prelates but our
Archbishops and Bishops. When we see one of these venerable men
driving out slowly of his/her building in an old style carriage drawn from