The Pope and his Cardinals, upon principle, are lavish of attentions which they would perhaps refuse them on the throne.

In short, the king who has been the most battered and shaken by his fall, and the most ill-used by his ungrateful subjects, has but to take refuge in Rome, and by the double aid of a vivid imagination and a well-filled purse, he may persuade himself that he is still reigning over an absent people.
The reverses of royalty which ended the eighteenth and commenced the nineteenth centuries, sent to Rome a colony of crowned heads.

The modifications which European society has undergone have more recently brought many less illustrious guests, not even members of the aristocracy of their own country.

It is certain that for the last fifty years, wealth, education, and talent have shared the rights formerly belonging to birth alone.

Rome has seen foreigners arriving in travelling carriages who were not born great,--distinguished artists, eminent writers, diplomatists sprung from the people, tradesmen elevated to the rank of capitalists, men of the world who are in their place everywhere, because everywhere they know how to live.