An Austrian sentinel was on guard at his door.
Austria has good reasons for encouraging disorders in the provinces she occupies: the greater the frequency of crime, and the difficulty of governing the people, the greater is the necessity for the presence of an Austrian army.

Every murder, every theft, every burglary, every assault, tends to strike the roots of these old diplomatists more deep into the kingdom of the Pope.
France would rejoice to be able to recall her troops.

She feels that their presence at Rome is not a normal state of things: she is herself more shocked than anybody else at this irregularity.

She has reduced, as much as possible, the effective force of her occupying army; she would embark her remaining regiments, were she not aware that to do so would be to deliver the Pope over to the executioner.

Mark the extent to which she carries her disinterestedness in the affairs of Italy.