cause of the weakness and disunion which has rendered it the prey, not only of foreign powers, but of whoever chose to attack it.
"Now all this is owing to the Court of Rome; and, as an experimental proof, I would suppose the Papal See removed to the centre of Switzerland, amongst the people who, of all the nations of Europe, have best preserved their primitive religion and manners; and we should soon find the politics and intrigues of this court give birth to more. disorders, and introduce more vices, than in any other time, any other cause, would have been able to produce.”
We here perceive, that three hundred years after this denunciation of the mischiefs arising from the temporal power of the Popes, Buonaparte not only performs what Machiavelli prompted Lorenzo de Medicis to undertake, but he even assigns the very reasous alledged by Machiavelli; this is only one situation in which we behold the preceptor and pupil acting in concert;
