We are expecting to hear from your Majesty how the city is to be governed and whether the Holy See is to be retained or not.

Some are of opinion it should not continue in Rome, _lest the French King should make a patriarch in his kingdom, and deny obedience to the said See, and the King of England find all other Christian princes do the same_."[488] [Footnote 486: Buonaparte's _Narrative_, ed.
Buchon, p.

190, ed.

Milanesi, p.

279; _cf._ Gregorovius, _Gesch.