I daily see with what intemperate courage this violent and hot-blooded people gives and receives death.

I know the esteem expressed by Napoleon I.for the regiments he raised here.

And we can say between ourselves that there were many of the subjects of the Pope in the revolutionary army which defended Rome against the French.

I am persuaded, then, that the Holy Father has no need to go abroad to find men, and that a few years would serve to make these men good soldiers.

What is much less evident to me is the real necessity for having a Roman army.