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The Counsellor de Brosses, who wished no harm to the Pope, wrote in 1740: -- "The Papal Government, although in fact the worst in Europe, is at the same time the mildest."
The Count de Tournon, an honest man, an excellent economist, a Conservative as to all existing powers, and a judge rather too much prejudiced in favour of the Popes, said, in 1832: --