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 natural proceeding, and deserving notice only because it owes its origin to the once customary riots in Rome during an interregnum, when it was an established thing for the mob to rifle the Pope's palace. To guard against the illicit removal of Pontifical property, the Camerlengo stays therefore in the palace until all has been properly registered, when, carrying away the key of the Pope's apartments, he returns in state to his