In spite of this, the Government measures were carried into execution.

The _Motu Proprio_ says the _Consulta di Stato_ shall be heard, but not that it shall be listened to.[18] Every year, at the end of the session, the _Consulta_ addresses to the Pope a humble petition against the gross abuses of the financial system.

The Pope remits the petition over to some Cardinals.

The Cardinals remit it over to the Greek Kalends.
The Count de Rayneval greatly admired this mechanism.

The Emperor Soulouque did more--he imitated it.
But M.Guizot tells us that "there is a degree of bad government which no people, whether great or little, enlightened or ignorant, will tolerate at the present day."[19] CONCLUSION.
The Count de Rayneval, after having proved that all is for the best in the dominions of the Pope, winds up his celebrated _Note_ by a desponding conclusion.