I fansy, Sir, you will not be sorry if I should make a Digression here, touching the Person of this Pope, who was perhaps the most humble, and the most regular in his Morals, that ever filled the Papal Chair since St. _Peter_. Being born at _Rome_, of the illustrious Family of the _Ursini_, he entered very young into the Order of St. _Dominic_, and was made a Cardinal at twenty-three Years of Age, by Pope _Clement_ X. of the _Altieri_ Family. He commonly resided, after he was a Cardinal, at _Benevento_, of which he was Archbishop. ’Twas there that he heard of the Death of his Predecessor _Innocent_ XIII. of the Family of _Conti_. When he received the News, he had just given away all his Money to the Poor, so that he was fain to borrow of _Fini_, whom he afterwards made a Cardinal, the Sum of eight hundred Crowns, to enable him to repair to the Conclave at ROME. The Division of the Sacred College, who could not agree in the Choice of a Pontiff, was the Cause of his Advancement. The Cardinals aimed at placing the _Tiara_ upon the Head of a Man who might wear it just long enough, either to dissipate, or to form their Cabals, and no longer. They were all convinced, that by chusing the Cardinal _Ursini_, they should give a holy Pope to the Church, but an indifferent Prince to the State; however, they thought to remedy this Deficiency, by planting such Ministers about the Pope, as they did not doubt would make him do what they pleased. But they were egregiously mistaken; for the Cardinal _Ursini_, when he was advanced to the Pontificate, was resolved to be _Pope_; and he chose his own Ministers, without consulting the Sacred College. One _Coscia_, a _Neapolitan_ Clergyman, born of mean Parents, had for a long Time a great Ascendant over him. The Pope advanced him to the Purple, preferred him to the highest Offices both in the Church and the State, and made him Archbishop of _Benevento_.