One of my good friends in Rome has been for the last nine years trying to get leave to travel.
He is rich and energetic.

The business he follows is one eminently beneficial to the State.

A journey to foreign countries would complete his knowledge, and advance his interests.

For the last nine years he has been applying for an interview with the head of the passport office, and has never yet received an answer to his application.
Others, who have applied for permission to travel in Piedmont, have received for answer, "Go, but return no more." They have not been exiled; there is no need of exercising unnecessary rigour; but on receiving their passports, they have been compelled to sign an act of voluntary exile.

The Greeks said, "Not every one who will goes to Corinth." The Romans have substituted Turin for Corinth.
Another of my friends, the Count X., has been, for years, carrying on a lawsuit before the infallible tribunal of the _Sacra Rota_.