We behold in him a man who has sacrificed his life beforehand, in engaging to shed every drop of his blood at a word from his chiefs.

If the little children in our country respectfully salute the colours--that steeple of the regiment--it is because they think on the brave fellows who have fallen round it." "Perhaps, then, you think we ought to send our soldiers to make war, before employing them as guardians of the peace ?" "It is certain, Monsignore, that whenever one sees an old Crimean soldier who has strayed into one of the Pope's foreign regiments, the medal he wears on his breast makes him look quite a different man from any of his comrades.

The corps of your army which the people has treated with the greatest respect, is the Pontifical Carabineers, because it was originally formed of Napoleon's old soldiers." "My friend, you do not answer my question.

Do you require us to declare war against Europe for the sake of teaching our gendarmes to keep the peace at home ?" "Monsignore, the government of his Holiness is too prudent to go in search of adventures.

We are no longer in the days of Julius II., who donned the cuirass, and buckled on the sword of the flesh, and sprang himself into the breach.