[346] Pacca relates that the English sent a friar to say that they had a frigate ready to take away the Pope and his secretary. Such were the relations of Rome and England.
[347] L'Église Romaine et le Premier Empire, 5 vols., 1868-1870.
[348] Le Pape et l'Empereur (1905), pp. 177-196.
[349] See Rinieri, pp. 165 and 166.
[350] By the Brief Catholicæ Fidei, March 7, 1801.
[351] Almost the only mention of the Vatican at this period is that in 1807 Pius had it prepared for the reception of Napoleon!
PIUS IX.