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And while Ganganelli breathed out his last sigh, resounded the bells

of St Peter's, thundered the cannon of Castle Angelo, and the curious

people thronged around the Vatican, where the conclave was in solemn

session for the choice of a new pope Thousands stared up to the palace,

thousands prayed upon their knees, until at length the doors of the

balcony, behind which the conclave was in session, were opened, and the

papal iven signal the bells became silent, the cannon ceased to thunder,

and breathlessly listened the crowd

The master of ceremonies advanced to the front of the balcony A

pause--a silent, dreadful pause! His voice then resounded over the

great square, and the listeners heard these words: "Habemus pontificem

anew, the cannon thundered, drums beat, and trumpets

sounded; upon the balcony appeared the new pope, Juan Angelo Braschi,

Pius VI, bestowing his blessing upon the kneeling people

As they now had a new pope, nothing remained to be done for the deceased

pope but to bury him; and they buried him

In soleh church

officials, surrounded by the Swiss guards, the tolling of the bells and

the dull rolling of the muffled drums, the solee from the Vatican to St Peter's church

In the usual open coffin lay the corpse of the deceased pope, that the