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eat", the Carrera faction penile& It would term, 110..
ever, this !swot, did nut maamteaffoira in a judicious man.
nor ; fur as the battle of Rooms*, again.' sin Royalista,
&right no she 2.1 of °colic', 181401 w Patriots were rot irely
defeated. and tied over the Andes. '1 hey were rallied at
Mend. vs Sty Son Marton, who identifii .1 himself with the
feet ~,,, and having' obtained a 11C11110111WITWIII of
TOM 111411reet• from Porous Ayres, 'p.o.ed the inumilaimo,
and. ow the lith 'miry, 18)8, fought the battle of Cha-
r-Mops., defeated the Rgyalista, and took thew commander,
al or", p. wooer This may he called the 'remind epowh of
the r. vo.t.oui ~,, in The ('arrera party was, of course,
.1.....• and lbe I.herains, :tit as chief. cun-
t., .1...11.wlwal•11/4 ii,porwr by vielosy of Mayon, obtain.
..1 os, we rill, A1..11,4618, sit), Ow pa. ticoilars of which the
read. ros itit iloolot will neopoimeol II la 2.1-111111 to the ohs.
11,1.6111. Of the Lerraina that ilo. v sewed this taonirol of •ric-
reas death two of doe ..... •t distinguished of the
Caere. Po. Thol were saerificool nutter julicial 311/1
nn the pretext of treason. Thr it raves:omi was a 101• I 31111
bloody 'powder, to gratify the vengeance of the reigning
The rhoe.tt intimacy subsists between the Goer nmentg of
Chits soil Porous Ayres. O'llicsino told Mr. !Moot, 'hat
there tees uoillint; which Buenos Ayres eo•hl ask of Chili
that se oild out he granted; and that Ronson Ayres wood",
art in like manner towards Chili. All the inbablianto of
Benito Apes are natnralivol tithe's' of Chili. Tice Sot•
limos Dices tor, by way of characterising the intimacy, said
they wire as two. bodies actuateit by one semi. Mr. Bland
thistlw, however, that this cornatimin is to the disadvantage
lathe Cbiliano, and conceives that it will tom in lastoo.g.
limier the faction of the Carreiras.at the contournir. mood of
rbe:revolutinw. thalweas, for the first time, was introodairsol
into Before that period all books and papers, prior
to their entrance into the ruustry. wi re luslwelrti
sad tip.
proved iy the Hely limoisitioui in Spain or at Lome. The
name of die Oral paper •-•s the Arrant. It was pitied''d
weekly, at a print ingmtlio....ens from New rug k,asol massaged
try three eiliacno of the Utsitetl States. It was "'bled by
Canollts Ilrnriyurs, now of Buenos Ayres. The opposite
loa' also puhlislot.l a paper, whit h they called the Aurora.
It was edited hy loisr.ri i At this time there are four week-
ly oafs's-. issued at Santiago, and none are litObli.nrol any
at twee . Ise in Chill; their, pa toes are the MinialcrialGarefin,
whirl, is she arkh.* I dgid paper of llw Government, El .4 r-
El Ihecido, and El tin? Th. y are all primed at the
"in.' press, and edited by clerks 31111 Rifler, a 411. 11W
own,. Twit other printimppressea hail horn carried the re
r sale, hot they were not saleatile articles. Newspapers
soul o.armohlets see erouveysil free Ll* p o.e:tc,-, and books ace
too...tied free of dotty.
Ihr ready' may rireollect that, afire hilt Ile of Nloymo,
11... VI: Tray of Pero was desirtma of. t xekalole of
To wooer% and sent ON board the l'oottel Slats'aloop of war
Ihitario. Captain Biddle, (room linos, an officer to Valpa-
raiso aril Santiago', foie the porpo.e. It tomes, ant, how•
over, un itortstigation, Iliat the Royalists had a few ow no
Clislisn prisoners; that those whirls they formerly had Ilse-
jog tos n rooftopd in tow of the islands of the Archipelago
tie*" were retraced by the Patriots after ti,' Intitle of
The Patriot., on the contrary, had ahniit
8 Mal li.•yoolisto prisoners, and were willing they al Id lit
Too losiv ol tor any prisonere which the Royalists held he.
1.- o gins to Buenas Alves; hut, owin: to some contempt
imanif seed iu rehitillll 111 the Patriot Auth. rill's, tor cartel
was ...weed upon.
lacidrntdly spealtio4 of Perot, lie Blood say., that mot-
third f the popohltioto of that toiiiitry are ti bites of un-
It! ..... I, and Ito-thirolo mulattucs tool orgitiesi the
lattor, iu ;;moat, a. al Ii informed as the whites.

TUE
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GERMANY.

Prorer4Vigiv wit 11,4 important than they are
eNITII.II,IIIINiy, have lately eilaageil the Catholics
of Cieriwiev in a very lamentable dispute with the
Count or Rome. The affair hat excited a great
deal of public attention. and it likely to led to
important ciiii.crpiroces.
It appears that the late Prince Primate, as
Bishop of Coustatice, some time hef.ire his death,
officially expressed a wish that his Vadat-General,
Baron Vint Wesseitherg, should he appointed his
strecentor. This distinguished Prelate is a mast of
great learning and virtue, his character is held in
high estimation by the Clergy, and the Chapter of
Constance, ois the death of the Prince Primate,
))))) lisle elect, d him as successor in the diocese
a Constance. lie was, however, rejected by the
Pope, .hone brief of the 15th of March, 1817,
comirosecled the Chapter to make a more worthy
choice ; iterl by another hr;ef of the 21st of May,
1817, 11l the Grazed Duke of Baden, his Hoboes&
slates that he long hod many weighty eau-es
of
complaint apitist Baron Von Wesaenberg—that
be bail maturely consitlered and convinced loni-elf
of the perverse doctrines of Baron Vito Wessell-
berg, his bad example, and Ins wicked and mall.
rious opposition to the commends of the Apostolic
Chair—oral that perceiving that this wan was inca-
pable of being reclaimed, he hid commanded the
fate Primate no longer to employ him MP Ills Vicar-
Clem ral. It then gives on to hope that the Grand
Duke would defend the steps taken against BAloal
Von Wessenberg. " triton all the good abhor, and
hold in contempt."
The answer of the Grand Duke of Baden to this
extraordinary documeat is dignified and just. It
stater, that the Baron had received the confirmation
114 prescribed by the German Concordats—that the
Co.Capitul irs, to %lions lira distinguished virtues
were known, were nintiiiiitowly of opinion that he
was most sly-rising of the office—that they, by
suds a sfs'inction, jii,titied the high reputation
which he enjoy. both with the Clergy and people,
as well as the hollow and respect in which he is
held On u.;hout till (;ertnany—that Von Wessetiberg
must have suffered by the envy of the undeserving;
bat the Duke felt himself bound to secure the oh-
sersance of the old Concordats, awl to afford pro-
tection to an innocent man condemned without
ortal—t'iiit lie, therefore, felt himself called on to
oppose the execution of the brief by all means to
is power, and lie would persist in that resolution
until it mild he proved, before a competent triliu-
i rI, that there were cam &cal obstacles to the elec.
ti.ni of V.in Wt,se:,tgetg.
The I.llkir was thus circumstanced, when Baron
N on Wessetiberg proceeded to Itome to learn and
to repel the accusations that should be made against
him. After au interval of seven weeks, lie received
s note limn Cardinal Coticalvi, which bears date
the 2d of September, 1817. iii this note severs'
accusations are brought lorwaril against biro—lt
Cilifitre him with, having kept the title of Capitu-
lar-Vicarr not a,thstondn,g the Pope's brief—it
11. est alludes to certain accusations received from
Germany, without mrutinniug by whom those ac-
rogations were niaile, or what the precise nature of
them were—it next charge* lino with having, wily',
.car-General, publi.lird a decree respecting mar-
1, ge., middy at variative with the comnimstats ;
u. oilier as to baptism, and a third "si,,.rusg
on xiit marriages. The first decree declared, that
Phould hr obligatory but those shale
in the presence of the clergy man and ten VPiN
bt.P; the second sauctioning baptism iii titivate

in
houses, to prevent the danger of biting irifairts
cold weather to churches; the third decree
was, I
that where a Catholic merried a person of any other
religion, the Pastors should ii-e their endeavours
that the children' of that niaris4e should he
rdu-
cated in the Catholic faith; hot if they could out
effect this, float that nothing else remained hut to
demand that the soils sl Id be educated iu tie
religion of the father, and the daughters to the re-
ligiou of the mother. Ile is west charged with
having supported and ericourar I persons who fell
under the displeasure of the Holy See, and im-
putes to him several works which reflect on the
genius discipline of Ow Catholic Church. lie
is neat charged with various improper acts in the
ad 11l l iistration of the I)iricese—mid lastly, that
respectable Prelate is :scult.ell, by mho rrspert-
able pets( 11l 4," with having formed the shomiiiahle
interition of haiiishing frpan Germany, iu two )ears,
every idea of the dimity of Christ.
We lament that our space will not permit us to
observe op.!, the very masterly reply of Baron Vial
‘l'eS*Cllbtf4 ; but lie has, our opinion, most
clearly sisal newt ably refuted every chori;,e that has
been brought against him—and he has done so in a
manner su very temperate, so muld, so frill of re-
spectful submission to his [lOllllr6P, us (0 re ft IA
great credit worm his heart and uniterstsuiliog.
But this answer, and another subsequent leti
110 effect on the Court of no CIUitrSSIOU
short of resigning the office of VicarAleorral, to
which he was unanintorisly elected by the Capi-
tulars of Constance, would satisfy the Pope.—
Driven to the last ',sinful alternative of either re.
notincisig his situation, soil by doing so confessing,
in fact, the justice of clung., *Ouch were oil
and unfounded. or, on the oilier hand, cl resisting
the commands of Rome, Barrie Von ‘Vessrtiberg
took his final stared, and tussle Its last
lion to Cardinal Costrsa vi. giv,e it at full

" 11Y Loan—abets Irr ad the note which row Eminetry
did tae the bonnet to ashlers, to me on the Ilth of thou
mouth, it was • ids the most painfol feeling I perceived that
my letter of the 18th November, 114/1With`t411.1111;111.• C 0.,..
pine snhmissiuw which st expo saes, was not fort
enough to pi whice thesitisfact Ain of his Papal Hoboes.
"If nothing more that, a pennon, sacrifice were nen esal y
on my part, to prove my reverence for the Holy Chair, newt
certainly I l Id at inure he 'rally to consent to it. Cool,'
I manifest my Irish reverence iii a more Evident ins osier
than
I ilia, by tcpvii nig hither in permit, to altonl respectful ex-
planations, and to express my filial 611hIlliiiiii‘sit towards the
dignify of the Supreme Head of the Chinch
re this is floe obit ct for which I obtained the consent of
ray sovereign to lake *lib; p
" As to the situation of a Capiikar Tear of the thaerre
of Constance, n situatiiou which the confidenee of the
Chapter, with whose *sumo I was i:lrestly ekgesiltd I,y the
deceased Bishop as his coadjutor, conferred MI me with the
approbation of my Son 401, it appestr. II 111 ute that by
abstaining from the exercise of the spiritual authority im-
mediately after acquiring a knowledge of the hi ief of his
Holincss, of the lfith Mart h, I haul done every thing which
could have been expected from a Clergyman, serums whom
the Holy Chair declared that it haul charges, of a Web
the initi;illual in question only demanded the tokamak".
lion that Si) opportunity fur justification might be afforded
hint'
Me
is This justification is the obji et of mArmorial of the
12th September, the triolvocy of *huh, froin motive s
of
delicacy, I lattiltittrd ilitySelf will, eltlel,lAlitig its in titter of
the 1811, November, instead of contionieg the discussion
respecting particular points, which it would have been easy
fur me so du.
" With rtapeol to my past condurt, I have submitted it
entirely In the decision uf the Church and its Supreme
Head,
" With respect to my future conduct, I must with the
most snbmissive entserlessee linseed, the Holy Father not to
doubt my honest teal to merit his approbation, by acting in
conformity to the spirit and the commands of the Grope!.
" Having now expellant my personal sr utinielits, which
afford a proof of my strong desire to satisfy the Holy Fa-
ther, I must of necessity atop at the hoe of my duty to-
wards my Sovereign, the Chapter, and Clergy of the diocese
of Constance, end towards Germany in purest. Their
duties mint be folfilktl, as well ns those towards the Holy
Chair. Your Einiiirricy will easily conceive, that this pit.
sitioa presents me the most powerful motives for delaying
no longer my return to Cartniihr, from whance I repaired
hither, to discharge my ditty to my Sovereign, by giving
him an account of the slate of this business, as it be-
lotio now to hint to rlo what he may deem advisable, in
order to bring the affair to is tonelnsion, as I have not been
so fortunate as to attain that object by my personal tow-
er talon.
" If by any sacs icier on my part I cnn facilitate ihe ad.
justmem of the affair, to the satisfecti 0000 of all concerned, I
shall 'ahem it honourable to me before Gust at d man, to
offer snub a sacrifice to the t hooch, lo my Country, 51.51 to
the Holy Father. 1 have it infield' ty at heart to convince
his Ilulim as of the p • and rectitude of my uharart, r.
I lake the liberty of n questiiikt your Esnistesi• y to lay this
note before him, and to receive with bestevotruir r liar homage
of the profound veneration and perfect devotedness with
which I have the honour to he,
" Your Eminency's, Ste.
" I. H. V. I% ESSI:N It FR G.
" Rome, 16th Dmislbrr, 11117."
Thus the matter TI its, and we cannot help
thinking that the conduct of the Court tat' Rome
throughout this affair has been unwise and unjust.
A pions and learned divine lois h.en unatiiitionsly
elected by the Chapter of Constance, to s high
situation in the Church ; he is a man equally high
in the confidence of the Priiice, the Clergy, and
the people—and yet the Court of Rome, without
any trial, without any iovestigation, on opinions
which were ahem' to be unfounded, on accusations
of base anonymous slanderers, thought fit to reject
their choice, and il. it manner, ton, Ilse most humi-
liating, and the most degrading to the character of
Baron Von ‘Vessrulterg ; aiiil when at leligth Pante
opportunity is afforded this injured loon of justify-
iiig his conduct, and when in fact hr did justify it
in the clearest and strougrst manner, yet has the
Court of Rome continued ioexorable—a mehm-
dully proof how little human pride is regulated by
human reason. We rejoice that Baron Von Wes-
senberg did not compromise his character, and
that be rattily resisted commands which no man
could obey without the sacrifice of all that an ho-
nourable mind holds dear. We rejoice, too, that
the Catholics of Germany have approved and sup-
ported his conduct : it is the triumph of reason mill
liberality over the unjust and uoreinionable Korn-
MUDS of piiestly pride; it is a moral illustration of
our hisses; it phew» that whilst the Catholic clings
to his religion, he is not the slave of the Pope; and
whilst it bolds forth an ow fill wariiiiig to the Court
of Rome, it furnishes u most tinnily! .i.t answer to
all that bigots in other ciiiiiitites have imputed to
the Catlitilies. Can it be any 101)14er asserted, that
the Catholics are the in-iruments of the Pope ?
here is it clear iii.ll forcible proof of the eimtraiy.
Con it be said that they blindly obey his ceminatoils
—here they hove resisted them ; sod what has burn
done in Germany would be Arnie isl England, would
be dom. il. Ireland, if the G•u! t of Rome should

forget that it 94'.d0. st;:tl a spiiiletl, iota, la ides.!, and
high iiiii.ded people.
%V.r, hour, then, that thi.4 argument %%ill he no
longer brought tot weird, Itecause it ummot tie
'nought forwmrst with :11101Cr or with trutlt-1111.1
Intivi: and fintliin I lienitle have renounced
foreign intliience—and when they lout., so often
rtl their 11..votitin to the Thriller mid Constitu-
tion of their country, we lame to .iee them teoured
to the full enjoyment of thane liberties which they
PO bravely drfentled—and of tit it ri.tititty who-e
mime they engraved in the tint rt cords
of glory out' renown.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

DOUSE OF LORDS, Ws nNesonv, JANUARY 26.

The LORD COIFS BARON took hog !.eat On the
Wookack at there o'clock.
The fol!oisim; l'ee,s took the 0a1i,.4 and their
seats :—The Mmtlishi Wellesley. the Ntio (lola Con-
de Earl Fozoilliam, the Earl of Callum!),
I. 4116 Stilmouth. Melville. Duncan, Exmouth,
SA•ey, Auckland, Sydney, Kenyon, mot 'loud.
The [louse adjouriied et lour o'clock.