If this be not sufficient proof, make an experiment.

Take away the barriers which separate them; I will answer for their soon being united.

But the keepers of these barriers are the King of Naples, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Austria, the Pope, and the rest.

Are such keepers likely to give up the keys?
I know not what are "the qualities which constitute the greatness and power of other nations"-- as, for example, the Austrian nation,--but I know very few qualities, physical, intellectual, or moral, which the Italians do not possess.

Are they "devoid of energy," as M.de Rayneval declares?
I should rather reproach them with the opposite excess.