He wishes to restore the absolute power of the Pope, in order that he may dispose of it at his ease.

He prevents all reconciliation between Pius IX.

and his subjects; he summons the cannon of Catholicism to effect the conquest of Rome.

He ill-uses the French, who are willing to die for him; he turns a deaf ear to the liberal counsels of Napoleon III.; he designedly prolongs the exile of his master; he draws up the promises of the _Motu Proprio_, while devising means to elude them.

At length, he returns to Rome, and for ten years continues to reign over a timid old man and an enslaved people, opposing a passive resistance to all the counsels of diplomacy and all the demands of Europe.