body, or, as it is called, "the
Senate," of Rome, presented to the Sovereign Pontiff, as well in their own
name as on behalf of all the people, an address expressive of their filial
duty and loyal sentiments. On the following day, January 19th, one hundred
and thirty-four of the nobility of Rome, who are, in all, one hundred and
sixty, approached the person of the Pontiff in order to present an equally
loyal and dutiful address. The sentiments of this address will be best
conveyed in its own plain and energetic language--language which does honor
to the patricians of modern Rome:

"We, the undersigned, deeply grieved by the publication of various libels
which, emanating from the revolutionary press, tend to make the world
believe that the people subject to the authority of your Holiness are
wishing to shake off the yoke which, as it is reported, has become
insufferable, feel necessitated to show fidelity and loyalty to your
Holiness, and to make known to the rest of Europe, which, at the present
moment, doubts the sincerity of our words, the fidelity of our persons
towards your Holiness, by a manifestation of attachment and fidelity
towards your person, proceeding from our duty as Catholics, and from our
lawful submission as your subjects.

"It is not, however, our intention to vie with the miserable cunning of
your enemies--enemies of the faith--of that very faith which they profess to
venerate. But placed, as it is our fortune, by your side, and seeing the
malignity of those who attack you, and the disloyal character of their
attacks, we feel bound to gather ourselves at the foot of your twofold
throne, with vows for the integrity of your independent sovereignty; and
once more offering you our whole selves, too happy if this manifestation
of our fidelity may sweeten the bitterness with which your Holiness is
afflicted, and if you are pleased to accept our offerings. Thus may
Europe, deceived by so many perverse writings, be thoroughly convinced
that if the nobility have hitherto been restrained from the expression of
their desires by respect and the fear of throwing any obstacle in the way
of a happy solution, so anxiously desired, they have not the less retained
them, and expressed them as individuals; and that they, this day, unite to
declare them, heartily and sincerely pledging to them before all the world
their honor and their faith.

"Accept, Holy Father, Pontiff and King, this energetic protest and the
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