The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-17 00:00:00

JULY 17.

lifter bavi peare..hly home the humiliation of imprisonment;
and seeing Clete iusults, nese contempts, these violations, ir_
crease with every hour, hi., iloliness found it necessary, thougi.
with the, deepest regret, to Jeff rmine on the recall of his Leg te.
in order to overthrow at least, in the f;:ce of the world, th.
false and scandalous iyinion that whatever might occur, eve!.
the 1110b1 Rica ,t wrongs, would recei% c : i. tacit consent.
" In this very recal, the precise pet iod ..f which could no.
have 'teen anticipated by his llol'acz,s, he professed, along will:
those constant atfectiocate regisds w Web he entertained for ilk
blajestv , that could he but coast at to the demand of the evitem,
Lion of ILtttne, allot be satisfied with those concessions w hich
compatiole with the duties of his 'fullness, the Legate migo:
continue, in conformity with his instructions, to exercise 11.-
functioni. But his Majesty proved inflexible, and instead o
stitediag a single step, preicied the discontinuance of the Lega
tion. and t',e deparcire of Piiiiiifical Representative.
" I is cot. thelefore, his lloliiiess, who by this hypothetica:
recall of his ',rote, hos declared war ak,ainst the Emperor; it is
the E nperor who chooses to declare war ttatinst his Holiness i
aid it content to declare war against his temporal Sovereignty,
Ire threatens to ...:e tit his spiritual, a wall of division between
the Catholi, b of France and the Sovereign Pontiff, in the assur-
an...e,..ccording to Champagny's Note, that the Ca:dittal Legate
hating 6iven up bis functions, the Gallivan Church resumes its
docirine in all as integrity.

" His Wiliness has too good an opinion of the illustrious
Cler„y of trance to doubt that the GaMean Church, however
je,:luu. of its prerogatives, is vet so attached to the chair of St.
P.•ter, that it will maintain itself unshaken in its true principles,
v% 11;plit asserting rights which it does not and cannot possess;
nor become schismatic, by separating itself from the Catholic
Unity.

It is not then—the repetition is important--it is not his
lioess who seeks the rupture. A pacific Prince, notwith-
stamling he was obliged to witness the spoilation, in defiance
of all right, of his states of Benevento and Poole Corvo; not-
withstanding his ettormuus expellee of maintaining French
troops; notwithstanding the usurpation of his capital, the
usurpation of almost all his sovereign riglos ; notwitliStatolio&,
the violent dismissal of so many spiritual persons, composing hi•
1101 y Senate; and notwithstanding all the other acts, by which
Ids dignity has been drgraded, all that his Holioess did, was to
ettitunand his people, when the French army entered Rome, to
thew it respect; ill that his Holiness did was to receive it in
the most hospitable manner, and implore of his Majesty, in the
mean lime, relief from so inauy aggravated evils; and all that
his Holiness now does in this extremity is, to mourn between
the vestibule and the altar, invoking the pity of Heaven upon his
people, and that by a return to better counsels, the most potent
Emperor Napoleon will not sutler the inheritance of the ROIllan.:,
See, given by Providence to the head of the Catholic Church in
full enjoy ment, to be lost and rooted out.
" Thus hat his Holiness made war . Thus has he conducted
himself to the present hour towards his Majesty, however die-. 1
tressing and unfortunate has been the result. Still his Holiness
will cheris:l the hope that ltis Majesty, rejectiug the counsels of
the enemies of the Holy See, who have lusd recourse twevery art
to change his disposition, will tevert to their former friendl:,
correspondence, and be satisfied with the concessious made in
the note of the VS.!) Jaiivary. If, by the hidden purposes of the
lot High, this should not take place. and his Majesty. regard-
less of his own glory, and deaf to the calls of justice, should pal
his threats in execution. and take possessiou of the States of the
Church by right of conquest, overturning the Government in
consequence, his Holiness will be unable to remedy such fatal
Occurrences, but he solemnly declares, that the first w ill not
he a conquest, as his Holiness is in peace with all the world, but
will be an usurpation more violent than history can furnish ;
and the second will not be the result of conquest, but that m'
usurpation. Ile declares, at the same time, that it w ill not by
the work of political genius and illumination, but as awfiii
visitation of that God from whom all Sovereignty is derived,
owl especially that given, to the Head of the Church.
" Bowing, in that event, with profound adoration to the de-.
trees of Heaven, his Holiness will find consolation in reflecting,
that the Creator and Redeemer willed these things, and that all
concurs to accomplish his purposes when his appointed time

1 nis is the answer which the Undersigned is commanded by
his Holiness to give to the Note of XL Chainpagny, and to com-
municate to your Excellency.

" CaNDINIL GJAKIIILLI,"