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11,7 FHB POPE'S NUNCIO IN SPAIN. MANIFESTO OF THE SPANISH REGENCY, - - AGAINST THE ARCHBISHOP OF NICRA I TILE POPES NON CIO IN SPAIN. To the Prelates anti Chapters of Spain, the Regency of the Kingdom. Upon taking into my, hands the government of the kingdom, I find myself under the painful necessity of interfering with a subject equally delicate from its publicity and transcendent nature, as from the cha: racter of the persons who were concerned in it. The Chapter of the Cathedral of Cadiz, with the Capitu lar Vicar, and the Ordinary and Military Vicars of this town, pretending the defence of religion, and a fear of acting against their own consciences, opposed themselves to the publication in the Parish Churches of the Decree and Manifesto of the Cortes, concern ing the establishment of the Tribunals for the protec tion of the Faith, instead of the lately-abolished In quisition. I therefole adopted the most energetic measures, in order that, whilst those Decrees were duly enacted, Spain might be preserved from the convulsions which threatened her at that moment.— To those measures, equally tending to maintain the dignity' of the Holy Church and the tranquillity of the State, we owe the extinction of a flame that might have consumed the kingdom. But the cir cumstance of having desired from the Chapter of this Church and from some others with whom I had been in correspondence an authentic copy of their Resolu dons and other documents, that we might take such steps as the justice of the Government and the offen ded sovereignty of the Nation called for, led to the discovery of a fact which greatly increased my sor row, both on account of the character of its author, and the danger to which it had exposed the country.. Among the documents that were laid before us, there appeared a letter from the most Reverend Peter Gravina, Archbishop of Nicea, and Nuncio of his Holiness for Spain, to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of Malaga (1), dated the sth of March last, in which he exhorted them to delay, and even to oppose, the execution of his Majesty's Decrees con cerning the Inquisition. The most Reverend Nuncio appeared, by his signature, to act in that instance only in his Archiepiscopal character, notwithstanding that he was protesting against the injury which he supposed to have been done to•the Holy See, in the abolition of theinquisition, and the Decree for pro mulgating it in the Parish Churches. He also says 'in his letter, that the Bishops now resident in This town had it in contemplation to; answer to Govern ment, that they could not put those decrees into prac tice until they had heard the .opinion of their Chap ters—at the same time throwing a slur upon those Bishops, by the intimation, that this was intended as a mere pretext ; after which he explicitly adds, that they thus gained time to make all the proper remon strances upon the matter. He further states, that the Chapter of this Church, cede vacante, had declined to execute the Decree; upon which he exhorts the Chapter of the Church of Malaga to adopt the op& nion of all the Prelates, (thus reckoning upon their disobedience,) and endeavours to persuade them that by acting according to his advice, they would do an important service to Religion, to the Church, and to our most Holy Father, whose authority and rights he conceived to be vulnerated, without thereby favou ring the Episcopal Power. It is also added that he had thought it his duty to remonstrate (2) in the name of his Holiness, opposing the execution of such Decrees, until the Pope had given his consent or ap probation ; or, in defect of the Pope, the same were done by a National Council; and he, finally, closed" his letter with a promise to communicate to them, under the greatest secrecy, every circumstance, as it should take place, which might contribute to regu late their conduct for the future. Copies of letters have been also forwarded to me by the Rev. Bishop of Jaen (3), and the Chapter of Granada, red: vacant:, similar to the above.mentioned, and which, with the same object, and under the same date, were directed to them by the Most Rev. Nun cio. From these it appears, that the said Nuncio, trampling on the first principles of International Law, overlooking the boundaries of his public mission, and abusing the veneration in which this pious people hold the Legates of the Apostolic See, has endeavoured to promote, and actually has promoted, under the cloak of religion, the disobedience of some very re spectable Prelates and Eccle s iastical Bodies to the decrees and orders of the Sovereign Power. If the . Most Rev. Nuncio had only intended to act as a Le gate of the Holy Father, and to avoid any expostu lation to which he might conceive himself exposed for his silence on the present subject, nothing obstructed his way to me through the medium of the Secretary of State. I might overlook his avoiding this regular' and official means of communication, when lie re monstrated as he thought proper upon the matter, i and should have attributed the informality of the cove duct which he chose to adopt, to inadvertency, or rather to an excess of confidence. I should have only paid attention to his arguments, and, with the advice of the Supreme Congress, taken such resolutions as the defence of the Holy Church and the temporal of the State, demanded with one voice fr om me. good of the national cause makes me feel quite confident that, bad this been the case, I should have satisfactorily answered the note of the Most Reverend Nuncio, and that I should have been found equal to aueet those vague and common-place arguments which the wisdom of the Most August Congress has already defeated. His uneasiness would have been calmed, when he should see that the abolition of the Inquisition can, by no means, either endanger re ligion or injure the rights of the Roman Pontiff; and that all the fears which he entertains on that account for the primacy of the Holy Father, and the supreme authority which he holds in the Church, are most vain and ungrounded. His qualms would have been allayed, concerning the impropriety which he seems to find in the circumstance of declaring to the people during the celebration of Mass, that a tribunal which was established, and for three centuries protected by the Popes, is useless, injurious, and contrary to the taws of the kingdom. In fine, he would have seen that the august Con gress, in this purely political question, has acted in virtue of its sovereign authority, without injuring, in any way whatever, the rights ot the Holy Father, or, much less, those ot the Catholic Church : so that they might, either aow or in flume, be in need of the remonstrances of Nuncios or Councils. 'rivate letters which. under the same date as the nets mesa written by tha?dost Reverend Arch bishop of Nicea, and the fact of his having mentioned therein that he forwarded a remonstrance to the Go. vernment upon the wibiect, are circumstances which clearly prove, that whilst he betrayed the secrecy which he himself recommended, he aimed not merely to avoid the charge of negligence in the fulfilment of his office, but rather to raise in the pious Clergy of Spain, and by their means in the people at large, a distrust of the temporal authorities which he thus strove to decry ; and to check their influence over a . class of the State, the members of which, by reason of their conseicuous rank, ought to be true samples of subordinattoir and obedience. This unlooked for behaviour of the Most Reverend Nuncio has compromised the honour of the National Congress, the security of the kingdom, the authority of the Episcopal Order, the true rights of the Roman Pontiff, and the respect which is due to the Church. He, on the one hand, acknowledges in his note the authority of the Cones ;—whilst op the other, by means of a secret correspondence, he spws disaffec tion and insubordination amongst the Spanish Clergy. In the character of a public Envoy he makes appli-, cation to the Supreme Government, claiming for redress; whilst, as an individual Prelate; he spreads private letters tending to the discredit of that very same Government. When addressing the Regency, he conjures the zeal of the Ministers of Religion ; and when speaking to those Ministers, he insults Oat same religion, by making it:a tool to foment the in subordination which it condemns. With the Govern ment he assumes the character of a Delegate of the Holy Father, who is thereby to be supposed incapa ble of making an ill use of his mission ;—with the subjects of that Government he becomes an intriguer, a secret agent, ready to give them private intelligence of the progress of that disobedience of which he is the promoter and fosterer. As a Nuncio of his Holiness, he affects an eager desire for the Concord of the Em pire and the Priesthood: as an Archbishop he strives to burst asunder the only bonds which keep them together. What might not the nation fear from this foreign Prelate, who, forgetting his dignity and the charac ter of his mission, transforms the representative of the head of the Church into an agent of petty inte ' rests, very different from those of the primacy of order and jurisdiction which belongs to his Holiness, into a kindler of feuds which could end in nothing but a civil war ? The imagination can hardly en- I compass the mass of evils to which he has exposed our afiliced nation, by such an unheard of step.— The letters imply that he had previous notice of the resistance which the Chapters and the Vicar of Cadiz were to make—of the object of those dilatory mea sures which the Bishops now resident in this town had agreed to adopt; as well as of other steps which were in contemplation, tending to confirm that resist ance, and to spread it over the-kingdom. The plan being one, the interest the same, the measures every where analogous, it evidently appears that the effects of the co-operation and support of the Reverend Nuncio must have been fatal to the Representative Body, and to the Government on which the nation reposes its hopes of independence.. The Spanish people are fully aware that the De crees of the Cortes have no other scope but the com bined support of the Catholic Faith, and the tempo ral prosperity of the kingdom. To shake this just conviction, and blast all the hopes which are grafted on it, was the object of those letters, and those in. junctions of secrecy, with which the most Reverend Nuncio supported the schemes of the Chapter of Ca diz. This illustrious personage has, therefore, been wanting to the rules of his office, to the consideration due to the National Congress, and to the confidence with which a Catholic nation has sheltered him in its bosom—a nation which, now, more than ever, re quires the most perfect internal union, if she is to hope for success in her struggle with tyranny. He has, besides, done a great injury to the Christian re ligion, whose interests he pretends to promote, by in. ducing the loyal and peaceful Spaniards to disaffec tion and resistance. Neither is the offence slight with regard to the Holy Father, whose disapprobation of a conduct so openly at variance with the Gospel, is ensured by his heroic virtues. That man insults the religious principles of the Pope, who can suppose him capable of asserting, in a foreign kingdom, the pretensions of his Court—nay, even his undoubted rights— by encouraging rebellion amongst the people. This false step of the most Reverend Nuncio is one of the greatest evils which the captivity of the Holy Father has produced to our pious nation : and no thing but the special care of PROVIDENCI could pre vent its fatal consequences. But such haa \ been the loyalty and obedience of the Bishops and the Chap. 1 , ters of Spain, that they have adopted the apparently uncivil course of not even answering the Nuncio's letters. However, this is not enough to appease my mind. The flame, which has been quenched so luckily, might be raised at another time, and they might grasp at some opportunity of imposing upon the tor. alty and exalted piety of our nation : and I should not be worthy of the trust which that nation has re posed upon me, if I did not provide against such danger. What I could not wink at in a Spanish Bishop, I will not suffer in a foreign Prelate, who so ill requites the hospitality and generosity of the Spa niards. I am ready to excuse the errors of what some people are willing to call policy ; but I cannot dissemble to myself that any degree of connivance in this particular instance would be highly criminal, both from the injustice of the act and the ruinous consequences which it might bring upon the country. I bear in mind the unwearied zeal with which our Monarchs have defended their own authority against the pretensions of the Court of Reme. The mere suspicion that briefs might contain some doctrines or decrees contrary to the privileges of the Crown, has been deemed sufficient reason to stop their circulation until they are examined and approved by Govern ment. Whenever any relaxation appeared to glide in on this point, Government has instantly applied a steady hand to stop its progress. Our history pre sents very awful examples of this kind, which might have been a warning to the Most Reverend Nuncio. A Government which has been so jealous of its un alienable rights is now doubly bound to take the most effectual measures against an agent of that same Court, who, by means of intrigue and underhand practices, endeavours to promote and organise a re ogioui and political schism 2 which might endanger , the security , of the State. These reasons have roused my justice : but, although I conceive myself fully authorised to exercise it on the Most Rev. Peter Gra. vista, by ordering him out of Spain, and seizing his temporalities, I Piave limited myself to command that the following Royal Decree be transmitted to him f and this for the reasons expressed therein : DECREE OF THE REGENCE, ADDRESSED TO THE NUNCIO. " The Regency of the kingdom expected that your Excellency, having regard to the public character of a Legate of his Holiness, with which you are accre dited to a nation equally heroic and religious, would have kept within the limits of that character, for bearing to abuse the consideration with which the Spanish Government has continued to acknowledge you in an Embassy, the legitimacy of which was rendered very doubtful by the captivity of the Holy Father and of our King Ferdinand the Vllth, as well as from other circumstances. His Highness relied on the strong motives which might and should have regulated your private conduct. But he has now beheld with surprise the steps which your Excellency has taken on the affair of the Inquisition. When, on the sth of March, you presented a note to the President and Supreme Council of Regency, that very day, as Archbishop of Nicea, you wrote to the Chapters of Malaga and Granada, and to the Arch bishop of Jaen, exhorting them, especially the two first, to delay, and even refuse their acquiescence in the Decrees which his Majesty had issued concerning the establishment of Tribunals for the defence of the Faith, instead of the abolished Inquisition ; and for the publication, in the Parish Churches, of a Mani festo of the Cortes. Your Excellency was not con tented with writing such letters as might, through :he perversion of public opinion, lead to a schism upon that delicate and ithportant subject. Your Ex cellency had also the boldness to betray that secrecy which you had recommended in your note, at the same time that you enjoined it to the Chapters and Bishop, in order that they might look upon you as the author of a scheme which tended to stop the exer cise of the temporal authorities, and promised them to transmit intelligence of every circumstance, as it should take place, which might contribute to regu late your combined plans for the future. a A conduct so contrary to the law of nations—a conduct by which, overstepping the limits of your public character, your Excellency has availed your self of the immunity which that character enjoys, that you might, as a foreign Prelate, organise the resist ance of those individuals, who, by reason of their rank, should be true examples of subordination, can not be looked on by his Highness with indifference, much less when you represent that conduct as an im portant and indispensable service due to Religion, to the Church, and to our Most Holy Father, whose authority and rights, according to the opinion of your Excellency, are wounded by the Decrees in question, without their favouring thereby the Episcopal Dig nity. His Highness is horror-struck at the conside- ration of the fital consequences which threatened the State, and which naturally must have followed the advice which your Excellency has given, supported as it is by arguments of such an inflammatorT nature. But although his office of Guardian of the State and Defender of Religion fully authorised him to order you out of these kingdoms, and seize upon your tem poralities, his desire of evincing the veneration and respect which the Spanish Nation has always had for the sacred person of the Pope, and the fear of now increasing his sorrows, have dissuaded his Highness from resorting to that measure. " His Highness has limited himself to command, that the disapprobation of your Excellency's conduct be expressly declared ,• as also, that he expects that your Excellency will keep in future; within the limits of your mission, without availing yourself again of the opportunity which your character of foreign pre late affords you to take the same or similar steps ; but that all your remonstrances will be made to' Government through the medium of the Secretary of State; and your Excellency may be sure, that should you henceforward forget the duties of your charge, his Highness will find himself in the painful, though absolute necessity, of exercising his full power in the execution of those duties which he swore to fulfil when he accepted the high trust com mitted into his hands. GOD preserve, &c. (Signed) gg ANTONIO CANO MANUEL. le To his Lordship the Archbishop of Nicea. " Cadiz, April 23." The reasons which have compelled me to this resolution, and the incontrovertible truths which, as Protector of the Sacred Laws of the Church, 1 have pointed out in the Manifesto, make me trust, that the worthy Prelates of the Spanish Church, and their respectable Chapters, will contribute, by means of their authority and sound learning, to the fulfilment of the gtiod wishes of the Sovereign Congress and my own, in favour of Religion and the State. (Signed) L. DE COURSON, Cardinal of Scala, Archbishop of Toledo, President. Cadiz, April 23, 1 iti 3. LETTERS REFERRED TO IN THE MANIFESTO. TO THE CHAPTER OF MALAGA. (I) Most Illustrious Sir—The Manifesto of the Cores, the Decree addressed to the Bishops for reading it on the three first following Sundays during high mass, and several others relating to the abolition of the Inquisition, to which a tribunal is substi tuted with the tide of Protector of the Faith, are on the eve of publication. The Lords Bishops resident in this town, intend to answer that they dare not rake any step upon such an important subject, without consulting their Chapters, and so they will gain time to set forth whatever may be deemed fit upon the subject. The Chapter of this Church, ittle •acsate, grounded on a petition of their Vicars, and other reasons which shall be expressed in their answer, will refuse to execute the Decree. I have deemed it my duty to make representations in the name of his Holiness, against the Decrees, unless they are previously consented to, or approved by the Pope, or in his defect, by a National Council. I think it necessary to trarstnit this information to you, trusting that on such an important business you will conform yourselves with the opit:ion of all the other prelates, doing thereby a gnat service to religion, to the Church, and to our most Holy Father, whose authority and rights are vulnerated, according to my opi-. nion, and that, without favouring the Episcopal authority. All this, as your prudence will suggest, requires the greatest se:recy ; and with the same I will communicate to you every circumstance as it shall take place, that may contribute to direct our proceed ings for the future.—Goo preserve, &c. Cadiz, May 5, 1813. P. Archbishop of NIOEA. remonstrant But the p THE SAME TO THE REGENCY. (2) Most Serene Lord—The Nuncio of his Holiness has heard, in the greatest bitterness of his heart, that your Highness is on the eve of circulating and publishing the Manifesto and Decree of the August Congress, in which his Majesty declares the Tri bunal of the Holy Inquisition to be inconipatible with the politi cal constitution of the Monarchy, and substhutes another, which may, according to wise andlust laws, protect the Catholic Apos colic Rowan Religion, the only true one, which, exclusivell others, his Majesty has so piously sanctioned. among the native • Spaniards, feels more respect wards that August Congress, nor will any one nudity in obeying its wise commands: but the tion belongs to the Church, and is of a very big', ture, as one in which Religion is concerned, and may suffer Irreparable injury. A tribunal is - pressed or abolished, which was established by l in the exercise of his primacy and supreme a , Church, for objects purely spiritual, as the pi Catholic Faith, and the extirpation of heresies without effect the power which his Holiness that tribunal. In such case, and being enjoine:.. my Legation to make the greatest possible exertion concerning the Catholic Faith, and the Holy Re also to do whatever I may find to be in favour oi for the consolation and edification of the people,, of the Holy See; I should be want in g to all these if, with the greatest respect, as well as the Christ , an Apostolic Legate, and a Representative of th• state to your Highness, that the abolition of the be extremely injurious to religion, whilst it the rights and primacy of the Roman Pontiff, it as necessary and beneficial to the Church —What can henceforward prevent the diniinui recce and submission Which all Christians ow, of the Vicar of Christ, the visible litead of the her very bosom, and during the holy sacrifice shall be told that a Tribunal, established, kept for three centuries, under the sanction of the m. ties, by the Popes, is not only useless, but deo glon itself, and contrary to the wise and jest Kingdom ? if his Holiness were free, at the p resent should content myself with giving hint notice as he is most unfortunately kept in the captis, much lament, I find it necessary and indispensable his name, against an Innovation of such influence ' of Spain, and which wounds the rights of the the Universal Church, the Vicar of Jesus ChtLe your Holiness, led by your well known reltgiut consummate prudence, will take the most eCecti order that the August Congress, who en ardent tect the religion we profass, may be pleased to cution and publication of their decree: unti at period the approbation or consent of we Romat obtained, or in his default, that of a Nation: peculiar province is to regulate these religious matters. None of these considerations can escal wisdom, nor can his great piety take it amiss, ' else of my ministry, and with all the necesszr; sense of submission, should through your medic I Majesty this most humble petition, so intimate the good of the Universal Church, and taped:, of Spain, the happiness of the onarchy, and prosperity of his Majesty, which is the object ardent wishes, as well as of my incessant prayr Goel preserve, &c. P. Archbishop of - NICLA, Nuncio of To the Bishop of JAEN. Cadiz, March 5, 1813. (3)—Sir, my most esteemed Brother—l have became my office to remonstrate to the Regency Decrees of the august Congress, which are orders laced and published fur the abolition of the Holy also to give you this information, and let you Chapter of this Cathedral; seek vacua', with the• the Bishops resident in this town, are determined said Decrees into execution, without .the preeion consideration which i s itiliject orinch weight deiliands. it to the wisdom of your most Illustrious Lordship with due secrecy, of this information, and rest , ' ceedings according to what you may deem kist. God preserve, &c. P. Archbishop Cadiz, March 5,1819. On the supposition that the Scril about one million and a half of Letter: cieties which have been so nobly es:a, dissemination of the Gospel, have put years more copies of the B,ble than it con A man of the name of Scott, imprism of Dumfries, for house-breaking, eni effect his escape on Friday se'nnight, to saw the bars of the iron grating, am ground in safety by means of his bed-clothes. In J.:- scending, however, his trot struck the window el tae cell in which the jailor slept, who being roused by tar noise, secured the prisoner. We mentioned in our paper of Tuesday the a:roci ous murder of William Muirhead, near E,lr.bull,h, on Wednesday se'nnight. It appears that the decea-ed was shot through the heart by a pistol loaded wi.h slugs, some of which have been extracted. The pistl was found, and the watch of -which Muirhead WAS robbed recovered. Macdonald and Black, two xoung men, suspected of being the murderers, are now is custody. Black was concerned in the riots on the Ist of January, 1812, and examined as an evidence cm the trial of those who were executed. Saturday afternoon, between two and three o'cicck, a fine girl, about ten years of age, was unfortunately killed by the fall of a deal from a hanging scaffold, on a house in Buchanan's-coUrt, Lawn-inarket, Edin burgh. CAUTION TO Cluttinex.--A few days since, 2 child, of about 11 years of age, daughter to a loon'•• seller in Holborn, while playing with some hea,ls i r one of them in her ear, which fell through the ntiti.c, and, notwithstanding :lie most prompt surgical a: si!• tance, brought on a violent paroxysm of insanity, in which state the poor child st:li remains. A few days since, the child of a fruiterer, in the Surrey-road, applied to her Governess for dirctti.sr,s in her work, and while the latter was exhibiting zfie method of drawing the sti•ch, the needle penetr,ited the ball of the poor child's eye, and, of course, de pr red it of sight. A very interesting and extraordinary operation has recently been successfully performed by Mr. Lt NNE. on a man who had lust the whole of his under-lip by a cancer. The operation was conducted'on the prin• ciple of a known practice in India, of restoring a lost nose, by means of the adjacent skin being raised from the flesh, and after being scarrified, and folded over, is made to form the part required, taking care to pre serve the circulation of the blood. In this instance the skin was brought up Irons the throat, and the is so perfectly formed that t::e man can pronounce all the labial letters quite distinct ; and from being as object of misery to himself, and disgust to other, there is now scarcely aay blemish to be observed. At Berwick marset, on Wednesday last, there ir.ic a good show of cattle, but few sold.—A toltnoh . show of horses, but few buyers. 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Tli to of his Iluiir.cria og ibi of th , (;cn• .1 have thought etalt sent , gency concernit g la amid t ordered to be crew Holy inquisition •' eril ...-- t you know that Ass M h I he . • apprebatina cif 7miiped nut to put the Ai precious. and_ ...Anti, OA dediands. rails paw L.ordship to make tar, soon id regulate your pit- mend i j'.ist. each chbishop of NICLA. Or :e 3criptures contain ir tent, the Bible be- :stablished for the forortbt published in ten aft t contains Letters! op ?risoried in the j:et N ei endeavoured 'es rime ht, by contsivino; I.( and reaching the att, DIED. At Paisley, lames Walthutaw, E 4 This Gentleman sets distinguished ornament of his profession as a bolicitrr, and s most devout Chrisiian; who Peed highly respected, and died do.. tervedly lamented. Lately, at Fuwl rry Tower, )ior:humberland, George Culls?* Esq. a celebrated agrictsiturist, in his year. At Coimbra, on the iSth ult. of au it.termittlng fever, sfttrns illness of five months, • Mr. Gcortv William Mills, of we Con' missariat Departmen•, in the 23d year of Ids age, eliles: t , :n of Mr. Mills, the King's Messenger. HIGH WATEit AT LONJ)ON 'DOR • .... alitnecs al. e. Afternoon 4 mitnnesar—r 7 LONDON : Printed by Level. Kcal . , Pc it et hot , pubitgked there, and at the Star-Oace, Trines -Du, 1