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Updated: May 26, 2025
"The Holy Father will have submission and penance, in place of embassies and pomp. One must go to him quite simply, from the people, saying, 'We have sinned; have mercy upon Venice! Piero, thou knowest that awful vision of the Tintoret? It is Venice that he hath painted in her doom the great floods bursting in upon her all the agony and the anguish and the desolation of God's wrath! Santa Maria!
But the President's levees were about opening for the season; and two or three of those most insufferable of all coxcombs, the attachés of foreign embassies, whisking their dandy rattans and sporting finely curled mustachoes; who, to his unsophisticated observation, appeared to be men of far greater importance than their less-pretending diplomatic masters, and who not unfrequently shared oysters with him during the day at Laturno's, and canvass-backs and champagne at O'Neal's by night, persuaded him to remain a few weeks longer, not much to the advantage of his exchequer, as may well be supposed.
The sultan Bello had accordingly received a letter from the court of Bornou, warning him that by this very mode of sending embassies and presents, which the English were now following towards the states of central Africa, they had made themselves masters of India, and trampled on all its native princes.
We have seen two embassies, formed for the purpose of mutual explanations and clothed with the most extensive and liberal powers, dismissed without recognition and even without a hearing.
At Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, their wit and courtesy raised them to the favour of princes, over the jealousy of all their rivals. Important civil and diplomatic offices were entrusted to them embassies of peace and war the government of provinces, and the highest administrative offices of the state.
All these embassies and legations had innumerable attaches, generally young men of great families attracted by the gaieties of Paris, and glad to have a uniform and the right of admittance to all the entertainments at court, at the embassies, and in society in general. For in those days society did still exist, our divisions and revolutionary laws having not yet succeeded in destroying it.
* The French have two embassies at Rome: one at the Palazzo Farnese, to the Italian Court, and the other at the Palazzo Rospigliosi, to the Vatican. Trans. Pierre came away quite aghast.
Mahomet remained in Medina throughout the year 631 and the beginning of 632, keeping his state like unto that of a king, surrounded by his Companions and Believers, receiving and sending forth embassies, receiving also tribute from those lands he had conquered, the beginning of that wealth which was to create the magnificence of Bagdad, the treasures of Cordova.
The name of Attila was familiar and formidable at Constantinople; and his frequent embassies entertained a perpetual intercourse between his camp and the Imperial palace.
The lead once given, the old Greek aristocrats have not been behindhand in following it; but their numbers are small, and the movement and interest in Pera, or on the Bosphorus, centre in the great embassies, as they do nowhere else in the world. Small as the society is, it is, nevertheless exceedingly brilliant and very amusing.
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