Cardinal Consalvi would not sign it, and instead delivered himself of a denunciation of the congress for having failed to return to the Pope his French fiefs of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin and the city of Ferrara. Labrador also refused to endorse the proceedings, in protest at the arrangements reached in Italy. Nesselrode professed his eagerness to sign, but warned his colleagues that he could not do so until Alexander had read the document himself. He therefore raced off post haste to headquarters while the others appended their signatures and their seals, and the document was not
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