THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL.
[correspondence of the tall mail GAZETTE.] I am in a position to furnish you with authentic details of attempts mode by the Emperor of Brazil to bring about a reconciliation between the Pope and the King of Italy. In the first interview which took P^co between the Pope and the Emperor the latter spoke long, warmly and eloquently on tho necessity of a reconciliation. The Pope, after listening very attentively to him, said that he was very much surprised to hear bucli lanfuage used to him by the Emperor of trazil. "I am for the nonce, replied the Emperer, " only Don Pedro d'Alcantara who addresses your Holiness." " Very well, my dear Dou Pedro d'Alcantara," said the Pope, "people say you are a philosopher and I believe it. Consult your books, and when you find in anyono of them that the day unites itself with the night, bring tie work to me and I shall have a precedent for the reconciliation you advocate." To the Empress the Pope . made himself still more disagreeable, and spoke to her sarcastically of her having acted as Cicerone to her husband over the Royal Palace at Naples, she being the daughter of King Francis I. of the Two Sicilies. "Verily," said his Holiness, "the Emperor could have discovered no one better qualified than you, Madame, to do him the honors of the Palace of your ancestors." The Empress was very much hurt at this, and did not visit the Pope again even to take leave of him. But the Emperor returned to see him immediately before his departure, and commenced once more on the subject of reconciliation, and even went so far as to say that he would bring Victor Etnanuel secretly to the Vatican. " I will get him to come here in a cab," he said, "and no one will know anything about it." The Pope was much irritated at this, and parted very coldly with the Emperor. What is most original about this affair is that the King of Italy had never authorized Don Pedro to negotiate an interview with him and the Holy Father, much less to drive him in a cab to the Vatican. The Emperor of Brazil acted throughout proprio motu.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1135, 18 March 1872, Page 4
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