a MEMORANDUM, which is a master-piece of its kind.

They extorted from the Pope a real constitution,--a constitution which left nothing to be desired, and which guaranteed all the moral and material interests of the Roman nation.

In a few years this same constitution had entirely disappeared, and abuses again flowed from the ecclesiastical principle, like a river from its source.
We renewed the experiment in 1849.

The Pope granted us the _Motu Proprio_ of Portici, and the Romans gained nothing by it.
Shall our diplomatists repeat in 1859 this same part of dupes?
A French engineer has demonstrated that dykes erected along the banks of rivers liable to inundation are costly, in constant need of repair, and ineffectual; and that the only real protection against those devastations is the construction of a dam at the source.

To the source, then, gentlemen of the diplomatic guild! Ascend straight to the temporal power of the Papacy.
And yet I dare neither hope for, nor ask of Europe the immediate application of this grand panacea.