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The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The French occupation of Rome. (search)
er Majesty's Government had suggested. Nor is there any question of forcing the Pope to abandon his temporal power and remain in Italy as the subject of another sovereign. The whole question is, whether the Pope, having lost Romagna, the Marches, and Umbria, should retain the whole of the territory now occupied by France, or whether the French troops should occupy for the Pope only the Patrimony of St. Peter, including the Vatican. Setting aside all difference between a Protestant and Roman Catholic sovereign, it is manifest that the principle thus upheld is at variance with the principles maintained everywhere else by France as well as by Great Britain. Rome is foreign territory; the Romans are to have nothing, and foreign troops everything, to say to the form of its Government. This system can hardly be of long duration; it is too directly opposed to the maxims of international law and the wishes of the Italian people. Earl Russell, deeming the information he has obtained a