This holy Pope, for I really believe him a Saint, lived in the very midst of ROME, and of his Court, like a Hermit, always at Prayer, or employed in the Functions of the Priesthood. He was an Enemy to Luxury and Pageantry, would never suffer a Clergyman to kneel at his Feet, but always made him rise, and sit down by him; being as humble as ’twas possible for any mean Priest, and perhaps too humble for his Character. He went out every Day in a sorry Coach, with only a Pair of Horses, without Guards, without any Companion, as I said before, besides a Brother of his Order, _viz._ the _Dominican_, to the Rules of which he always adher’d, and without any Attendants but a Couple of Footmen, and six of his _Swiss_ Guards. If he happened to meet with any Carriage in a narrow Street, he bade his Coachman stop, saying, he did not desire to fall out with any body. So much is enough for _Benedict_ XIII. who was a pious Pope, and would have been a good Prince too, if his Ministers had been Men of Honour. I now return to the _Vatican_. This Palace joins to the Castle of St. _Angelo_, which is the Citadel of ROME, by a covered Gallery, which was made at a Time when the turbulent _Romans_, not paying their due Obedience to the Popes, the latter thought proper to make themselves a Passage to it in case of a Revolution; but, Thanks to God, this Precaution is no longer necessary; for the Popes are the Masters. The Castle of St. _Angelo_ is for Prisoners of State, and in it is the Arsenal, which, by the way, is in a very bad State. There are also kept the four Millions of _Roman_ Crowns, which Pope _Sixtus_ V. deposited there, with an Injunction, by a Bull, at the same Time, that they should not be touched but to serve some pressing Exigency of the Church. It has the Name from the Appearance of an Angel to Pope St. _Gregory the Great_, putting up a Sword all over bloody, in its Scabbard, to denote that God had stay’d the Pestilence, in regard to the Prayers of St. _Gregory_, who, accompanied by all the Clergy and People of ROME, carried in Procession to St. _Peter_’s Church two Images of the Virgin, the one painted by St. _Luke_, and kept in the Church of St. _Mary Major_, the other, which appeared to St. _Galle_, and is worshipped in the Church of St. _Mary in Compitello_.