[242] Thibaudeau, tom. ii., p. 55; Letter de Cacault à Buonaparte, Correspondence Inédite, tom. ii., pp. 114-125; Montholon, tom. iii., p. 387. [243] Voltaire, in one of his romances, terms the Pope an old gentleman, having a guard of one hundred men, who mount guard with umbrellas, and who make war on nobody.--S. [244] "Arma diu sênior desueta trementibus ævo Circumdat nequicquam humeris, et inutile ferrum Cingitur"---- ÆNEID, Lib. II. "He--when he saw his regal town on fire, His ruin'd palace, and his entering foes, On every side inevitable woes; In arms disused invests his limbs, decay'd, Like them, with age; a late and useless aid." DRYDEN. [245] Cacault was born at Nantes in 1742. During the Consulate, he was chosen a member of the Senate. He published a translation of Lessing's Historical Sketch of the Drama. He died in 1805. [246] "La cour de Rome, au desespoir, saisirait un fer rouge: elle s'abandonne à l'impulsion bruyante des Napolitains."--_Correspondence Inédite_, tom. ii., p. 119. [247] Montholon, tom. iii., p. 387. [248] "This is the same thing as happened at Pavia," said the soldiers, by way of demanding the pillage of the place. "No," answered Napoleon; "at Pavia they had revolted after taking an oath, and they wanted to massacre our soldiers who were their guests. These are only senseless people, who must be conquered by clemency."--MONTHOLON, tom. iv., p. 18. [249] Napoleon addressed them thus in Italian--"I am the friend of all the nations of Italy, and particularly of the people of Rome. You are free; return to your families, and tell them that the French are the friends of religion, order, and the poor."--MONTHOLON, tom. iv., p. 19. [250] Jomini, tom. ix., p. 307; Montholon, tom. iv., p. 7; Thibaudeau, tom. ii., p. 220. [251] "Monge was sent to the spot. He reported that the Madonna actually wept. The chapter received orders to bring her to headquarters. It was an optical illusion, ingeniously managed by means of a glass."--MONTHOLON, tom. iv., p. 12. [252] "It is a wooden statue clumsily carved; a proof of its antiquity. It was to be seen for some years at the National Library."--MONTHOLON, tom. iv., p. 13. [253] Jomini, tom. ix., p. 311; Thibaudeau, tom. iii., p. 228. [254] Montholon, tom. iv., p. 16. [255] Montholon, tom. iv., p. 25. [256] For a copy of the Treaty of Tolentino, see Annual Register, vol. xxxix., p. 328, and Montholon, tom. iv., p. 18. [257] "One of the negotiators of the Pope observed to Buonaparte that he was the only Frenchman who had marched against Rome since the Constable Bourbon; but what rendered this circumstance still more singular was, that the history of the first expedition, under the title of 'The Sacking of Rome' was written by Jacopo Buonaparte, an ancestor of him who executed the second."--LAS CASES, tom. i., p. 98.