The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

. butt cttr, SEPT. 10.—The Holyhead Mail, due on
Thursday, arrived in that plate it twelve o'clock
the day before, and reached the Pigeon-house at
two o'clock yesterday morning, being the earliest
arrival ever known. This unexampled eXpeditioti
• was in consequence df the new arrangement which
has esfablished tile running of the Mail Coach on
the ShrewSbury road, instead of the old circuitoni
route by Chester. The London Coach will, in In-
jure, arrive at Holyhead every day at two ecinck,
instead of six or seven, as formerly, and the P.acket
will sail, in every possible case, in a few minutes
after. An Express armed rider takes the Liverpool
bags from the Coach at Chirk ; by which arrange-
ment it is supposed that six Irish Mails out cf eight
will arrive one day earlier in the former town than
heretofore. This is no inconsiderable improVement
in the constant and necessary communication be-
tween LiverpOol and this City.
c` ..% are informed, from good authority; that the.
English Mail is (after some arrangements Windt
have not yet been finally settled) to be sent every
evening, at t certain fixed hour, from the General
Post-Onice, to Howth, where it will be received by
the Packet, and from whence ik can be dispatched at
any time of the tide, or state of the wind. This re-
gularity of the departure will promote in an emi-
nent degree the great desideratunt in all posting
communications, the regularity of arrival.

LIMERICK, SEPT. 10.—About three o'4loak, this
morning, a party of horsemen, to the number of
sixty or upwards, all armed, came to the nouse"of
Michael Fowlon, of Luddinbeg, near Ballyneety, and
demanded arms, which was reused; they then begnti
breaking into the house, and one man had nearly
forced in through a window, when a resolute wo.
man pushed him back ; they then vowed the de-
struaion of the house and family, and -Set about
breaking the door and windows, when a Shot was
fired from the inside, which did some execution, and
set the villains to flight; one of them was shot in the
head, ai a bloo.ly hat and perforated by s!ugs, was
found after them ; they also left a whip with knotted
cords, which they dealt out as a warning -to those
who won't bend to th"eir orders; they returned by
the Limerick road, through Ballyneety, about an
hour befOre day; one man, whom, they called Cap..
4a5r4-; wore a three cockade military hat.Soldierli
caps with brass plates were seen on more of them;
scarce a week passes that those hireling diSturbers of
the peace are not in parties three or 'bur times in
the vicinity of Limerick.

The Church of Grantham was robbed of the Com-
munion Plate, on Friday last, by fOur men, who
travelled in two gigs. After the commiSsidn of the
robbery, and drinking two bottles of the sacramental
wine; they drove the same night to a village about
2,o:tiiil"64ltom, Grantham. The robbery was soon
diSCovere4 of course an immediate pursuit took
place, and they were taken at the inn where they
had put up. One of them endeavoured to effeL•t hiS
escape by leaping out of a window three stories
high ; he was dreadfully bruised, but his life is not
considered to be in danger. They were all lodged
in Grantham gaol on Sunday.
Saturday night a man threw hitriself otit Of a two
pair ot'stairs window in White Lion•street, Pentori-
ville, in a state of delirium, and Was killed On the
spot.

On Sunday morning last died, at her seat, at
Lewisham, in Kent, GERTRUDE BRAND, Baroness
DACRE, rely of THOMAS BRAND, EST of the
Hoe, in Hertfordshire, who died in February,
1794. Her Ladyship succeeded her brother, the
Hon. CHARLES TREVOR ROPER; the late Lord DA-
CRE, in July, 1794 ; and is now succeeded b%! tier
eldest son, the Hon. THomns BRAND; M. P. tbi-
Hertfordshire. No wife more sincerely regretted
the loss of an affeetionate husband than her Lady-
ship. When at Lewisham, she, every-evening, hri
attended, visited his tomb, and shed tears to hit
methOiy:7' Her life was a continued scene of bene-
volence and charity ; and her memory will long be
cherished by the widow and the orphan ; she was
in her 58th year.

CORN-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 14.—There are but few
arrivals of Wheat to-day, and the supply at h'and is
very short ; the new that comes is lig!ir and inferior,
which causes samples of fine old to fetch an incre:ise
in price ; Barley very scarce ; Malt rather dearer ;
White.Pease.none; very few Grey, or Beans of the
two` tits those also are dearer; Oats in mid-
dling.supply,atlittle variation; Flour this week is
dearer. •

.
Wheat 75s a 9os a tons od Tick Beans c 58s a 63s od
Fine ditto . t 025 a toss ex: Oats -36 s aOs a 4,s D.l
Rye - - sos a 54s od Poland ditto 4is a 42: od
Barley - - 4os a 465 od I Potatce - - —4 a :44s ad
Malt - -72 s a Was odi Rape Seed . 401 a 431 -- et 4
White Pease —s a—s od Fine Flour - Sos a E4s , d
Grey ditto - 6os a 65s od Sem-WS a. P 7.is a SQA 0,4.
Deam -; m a 6.” aop od ,

JMP(RTANT STATE: PAPER,

?ROTES TOP HIS HOLINESS THE POPE AGAINST

BUONAPARTE.

TO SIGNOR CAVAUERO 41:1)INL, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES

-
„OF THE, KINGDOM 01, ITALY.
•,
From the .Quirinal Palac, May 19, tBOB.
His Holiness having received the j ain 11.11 ot i'fica-
tion-of the union which is about to take place of his
four duchies of Urbino, Macerata, Ancona, .and Ca
merino, with the Kingdom of Italy, arnid the cruel
uneasiness which thiS rigorous treatment causes him;
has charged the Cardmal•GnarunuLt,
,Pro-Secretary
of :State, to inake the feliowing frank declaration to
your Most Illustrious -Highness. The Holy Father
bas seep, with -infinite pain; that the fOree of the
reasons • contained_ in rite Vore..of the -,•thth of
11 ril, addressed to FEBVRE,. the Charge 7
d'Affaires, has not prevented his Imperial and Royal
Majesty front putting his-threats in execution. •}l6.
.haS seen, with the same feelings, that.this -powerful
IVl.9narch, :in whosehands.he placed. at thealtar the
,sceptre, and the rod of justice, Las proceeded, ;eon-
trary 'to eVery-species of rigtlit, to inflict upon him a
zfew spoliation of the .best part of the-States'whieh
remained to:him.
But what has been the astonishment of his
Holi-
ftess in obserVirea dectVer;idted one day 'anterior to
theNote'ofM: CHSMPA'GNY; sd:that even before
that-„Manster had renewed.his:propositions, and re-
ceived an answer, the fate of the,three usurped pro-
vinces was alrea.dLdecided
' The aStonishmenf Of- the Holy Father was still
• farther augniented,:when he-saw. it assigned as a-
legitimate caust.:rof thisToliation, that he had.con-
stantly refused to make war opo'n• England', and. to
confederate with the Kings of •Naples; and of Italy:
However, his Holines's had never ceased to repre-
sent, that his sacred charader of Minister of Peace,-
(the C _,cl whose Representative .he "is' upon earth,
being the-God of Peace) that his quality of univer-
sal Pastor, and of the common Father pf all the
Faithful—that the. holy laws of justice, of which,
as the Representative of the God who is their sqtrcp,_
he oughtio be the guardian and the avenger, could
never permit him to enter into a permanent system
of war, and much less still to declare war, without
any motive, against the British
.Government, from
which he had never received the slightest 'offence..
However, the Holy Father conjured •his Majesty to
relied, that not haying, and-not being in, the-capa-
city of having enemies, because he the Vicar of
Jesus Christ,, who-came into the world not to fo-
ment but to destroy animosities, he could not
m=•
peror rn
himself and his successors, in perpetuity, as the E...
peror wished, to make war for the quarrels of ano-
ther.

But his-Holiness had also urged the incalcnlable,
evils which would result to religion, should he enter
into-a system of perettial confederation, and that,
wit boot compromising his honour, without incurring
universal hatred, without betraying his duties...and.
conscience, he could not place himself in the
situation,.. by the league proposed, of becorning the'
enemy or every State, even a Catholic Sovereign, and
of bitiding himself to make war:upon him. But
all the representations,.•and, all the ,reasons so fre-
quently subinitted to his Majesty with paternal mild-
ness have not produced the least itinpressiona•
It has been Setight to ju,tify the_spoliation upon
another pretext, by .assigning as tile second motive
which .pioduceel it, that •the .interests of the two
kingdoms, and of the two annies-of Italyand Na-
ples, demanded that their communications should
nut be interrupted by a hostile: Power.
./
if ',by thisyoweits•rneant to be, understood Eng,
1a1.4, the history of alinbst.two centuries will.,sheW
the. falsity -of this specious pretence. The Catholic
I?r•inces of Spilinr.fretl of. the liouse of Austria, nem
the &riper-Or CHARLES Y. to CHARLES 11. of Spain,
po,s-esseO the Kingdoni of Naples and the ;Duchy of
Milatr, winch forins at present the principiil 4) art of
the Kingdom of Italy, and they never petceiVed,that -
their.iiiterests were.' compromised : they never Ix-
pet iebeed this pretended obstacle to:the conituuni-
cation of their armies:. They. were frequently at
war with Great Britain, and still oftener,i.vith France,
but they were never apprehensive' of an infericnediate
debarkation upon the territory of the:Holy See ; still
less oid..iney pretenO to force the Pontiffs of that-
peried to unite and confederate with them, or to
despoil them of their possessions, should they hae
"refused. •
• But putting history `aside,. what risks could the in-
terests of these separated kingdoms even rpn ? The
neutrality of the Holy Fathers, recognized and re=
silectetl by all other Pewers, and the measures taken
to prevent its violation, are more than sufficient to
place these interests in security.
To render this security still greater, and to take
away every sort of pretext, his Holiness carried his
compliance as far as he consistently could • he de-
clared hinisLll disposed to shut his ports against • the .
English during the present -war, and to employ:his
troops to guard the coasts of his States from every -
hostility whatever. •
But what attack could be dreaded upon these two
kingdoms, which border neon the States of the Holy
See, while French troops, for so long a period, with-
out regard to the interests of the public ot of indi-•
viduals, have violated, his neutrality, occupied all his
ports, and covered all..his coasts ?
If, however, by a hostile Power,-it was wished to
designate the person of the Holy Father, his
ter itself, Mild amid pacific, puts an earl to this in-
jurious imputation; but the better to refute it, his
Hoi.tNEss 61i8 10 witness the French empire arid.the
kingdom of Italy, in faVdur of Which he signed
two Concordats, wha-Je violation had beet} the source '
bf perpetual grief to 'his' heart, in having constantly,
but in vain,: pressed their' faithful execution: He'
calls Europe 'itself: td-Witness, which has seen him,
in his old age, id- the most: rigorous season of the
year, traverse lre.Alps and'proceed xo Faris, not,Wit h.;
oot exciting, th'e jear.euSy and ‘drs-gerist of other great
circler tO Consecrate the Crown of his Im-
pirial.auit loyal Majesty. , He Calls. to,•witness the
WirOiet raclaq'Toops, from the Cormpandicr tq the
meanest soldier, either those who have 41-aVerierfthe
States of the See, or' those who have .reSided
.wio they have not experienced in the
Papal, territory a reCeption the most friturdly, and a
• ht,spLality the -most generous :—a hospitality which
ecost bitter tears to the Holy Father, who was indis-

pensably obliged to-load subjeas with itripogts far
the maintenance and payment of the French tPoops:
in short, his HOLINESS calls to witness his Majesty
himself, for whom he itas not ceased on all occasions

to testify the most particular regard., • s
But if his. FlotmgEss were able to testify the sur-
prize excited by the two' first articles advanced to

, .
justify-tuts spoliation;• he .wants words to-express tk
profouud:astonisbment, produced by the expressions
contaitied.in the third. It bears upon the donation
of Charlemagne, and it is remarked, that that was
made for the benefit of Christianity, and not for the
advantage.ot the eneinies of our Holy Religion. It
is well known that this celebrated and glorious Mo-
narch,- whose memory will be eternally ,bfessed by
the Church,;did• not givelo the Holy See the Pro-
vinces which have been usurped. It, is notorious.
that they were,. at an epoch yery remote from, his
age; in► the posSeision of the Doman Pontiffs,,in Con-
sequence of the voluntary submission of the people,
who were abandoned by the Emperors of :the East ;
that the
:Lombards having afterwards occupied the
Exarchat of Ravenna and the.PentaPolls, which in-
clude..these Provinces, PEPIN, the' llustrious and re=
ligious father of. Charlemagne, recovered them and
restored them to Pope STEREIENi that: that great
Emperor, .who
,was the honour and admiration of the
'eighth century, far fi'OrrcMshincr to revoke the gene-
rous and pious donitiOn of -his &her, approved and
confirmed it. under Pope ADRIAN ; that fare from
Wishing to strip the Roman Church .of her posses-
sions, -he had no other inteirtion than to secure and

•
- aggrandize them; and consequently in his will, he
laid)att express obligation, on: his three sons, to pro-
.; teen the States of the Church with their arms ; that
he reserved to his sUccesso:s no right of revoking
that which his father 1)PIN had done for the ad-.
vantage of the. Vitali- of St. Peter ;
.that his sole de-.
sign was to protet the Roman Pontiffs against their
• enemies, and not to compel them to excite enemies;
that ten centuries which have passed away since the
days of Charlemagne, a thousand years of peaceable
, possession, render useless all more ancient 'investt-
'gations and all ulterior interpretations ; that even if
that pious Prince had, instead of a free restitution or
gift of these territories, .re-stored or given-them for
the profit of Christianity,. it' is exaaly for the %%Pei--
fare of Christianity, -or, to speak more stri&ly, of tbe
Catholic Religion, that th Holy. Father wishes pence
With all the world, avoids to provoke the resent-
ment of any Power„and refuses to interfere in poli-
i tical quarrels. After so man3s.voices haVe been tai

ed against different Popes, who have, for the best
reasons, engaged in wars, the HOLY FATHER can-
! not perceive why it can be attributed to him as a
'I: crime that he refused to assume a warlike charaCter,
and, at the suggestion: of ,a Foreign
.Power,
menee a war without any provocation, and which.
Must be highly prejudicial to religiOn and its sUbjeets.
His Holiness cannot •on an* 11-.:cOuttt overlook the

iojiary which is done him it) the forememioned De 7

_ . .
cree, • wherein it is remarked,. " that the, gift oft'harlemagne
,was not made for the benefit of the
eneniies.olonr Holy Religion ;" thereby accusing his
Holiness of betraying the sacred Interests of the
Church—This accusation bath made a lively im-
pression on the mind of his Holiness, who
,fim up
wards of three years bath been suffering persecution,
in behalf of religion, and for having, aced faithfully
hi his Apostolic capacity. He has suffered it that
he light not implicate himself in a permanent sys-
tem of warfare, and that he might not by his con-
du6it obstru& the free exercise of the Catholic
worship, • •
•

His Holiness bath submitteCto it, t cause he

could not admirt he principles which were freqUently
intimated to,him, which were, that if his' Holiness
was Bishop of Rome, his ISfajesty..was notw:ith-
standing- the Emperor of it, aid that the Holy Fa-
ther ought 'to submit
.to him •in temporal matters,
in the same •manner as his Majesty submitted to his
Holiness in religious matters; that the territories of
the Holy See appertained to the French empire, and
that therefore the Pope ought .always to make Com-
mon cause•with the Emperor aqd his Successors
that he.ought at' all times to consider the enemies of
Fiance as his o'livn; and that he ought by consequence
to- become ,a part of the Federative system of the'
Empire. . . .

The solemn oath's which the Holy Father.hath
made to" maintain his. liberty' and independence, so
esstntial to the Catholic religion and the free exercise
of his supreme spiritual power, do not allow him
to subscribe to those destructive and fatal maxims..
His Holiness suffers this persecution because be
would not consent to the pretensions of his iVliijesty
to nokpinate as many .Trench Cardinals as should
fprtn one-third. of the sacred College, which must
have sapped the fundainental base of its constitution,
attacked the independence of his spiritual power,
and again introduce. those unhappy disasters which,
the Church still deplores. His Holiness suffers, be-
cense be would not enter info an 'offensive and de-
fensive league agaihst.any Power in Europe, catho-
lic or otherwise, to the manifest injury_ of religion.
If this refusal implies an'abandoument of religion,
let Heaven, the Church, the world, and nosterity•
judge. The Holy Father bath the most co„ nscienti-
ous refle6tion, that- he:never did any injury to his
Majesty; or to France; but if bis. Majesty actually
had any complaints against his Holiness personally,
that .would not justity him in resenting on the Ca-
tholic Church, .by irrevocably and fbr ever robbing
it of that very property which the same Decree de-:
dares to have been bestowed for the good of Cl.ris-
tianity, nor to rob that Church, which is not the,
proprietor more than the Pontiff, who is only the'
gwrdiap of -it. That Church haviug the spiritual
superintendence of every other,, haft; since the.
peace of Constantine; been enriched by the piety.
of monarchs and people,..and bath, by an adnan:able
'order of Providence, first accumulated considerable.
property,' and afterwards different •Stetes, that. it
might maintain its spiritual" government. with more
decency, liberty, :and advantage—this very. Church,
w•hich his Majesty.would-reduce a.state ofslegraf
dation and. incapacity of exercising. its divine, su-?,

p-rernacy. .
-His Holiness ctinnot sufficiently ?egret the error
into which his Majesty bath fallebi,:sibce-, iii his
Decree, whereby he. cleprivAs the Holy a
part of its States, on, the ground `f that they; were
not intended to benqiit the enemies of the ~Catho-lit re-
ligion," his Majesty has published. in'tine- .same
States, that code,. against which his tioline4 1001
so often, but- unsuccessftilly, colvplainect„ on ac-

count ofllie articles it contains contrary.to the-Gds-
per and the taivs of the. Church, particularly those
of Marriage and divorce. -
His Holiness cannot conceal his astonishment at
seeing the demand of his-Exceiktvy Cardinal,CA-
PßAlt A 'for 'his passports made an additional motive
to justify thisscandalous spoliation. After what the
undersigned had the honour of .signifying, in an-
swer to the note of his Excellency AL. CH VAGnr.
in the nionrh of April; his- Holiness believes that
the grounds of the principal accusations are com-
pletely:refuted. He hath already sufficiently proved
that the demand for passports was accompanied, with
the equitable condition that the French Emperor
should- evacuate Rome, and. relinquish 'those pre- .
tension's which his Holiness, felt inadmissibie„". His
Holiness, therefore, cannot abstain from repeating,
that it-was discretionary with his Majesty either to
permit '6e-departure of M:CA VIIAR A, who was not
only the Ambassador of the Court of Rome, but at
the same. time the Aloitolio Legate, 'or to ,permit
him to continue his residence,at Paris,, His depar-
ture ought not, therefore, to be made any subject of
complaint • "
If the injustice, of this Decree hath increased.the'
grief wherewith the mind of his Holiness is over-
Whelmed, he.could not but be additionally ofiliaed
on' perusing the tither Decree of the samedote; which'
eajoins all Cardinals, .Trelates, and Ortiee.rs holding
any employment at the: Court of Rome, who: are
natives of Italy', to return, under the penalty of
their whole property-bin case of disobedience. It is,
therefore perfectly clear to his Hanes's., that it is
not his temporal authority, but also his spiritual,
which is intended to be subverted, although the se:
coed Decree makes a studied distinction between the
temporal Sovereign of -Ronne and the Vicar-of Jesus
Christ, under the pretext' of spewing a seeming re-
sped for the latter. It must bee evident to the Uni-
verse that the intentions of his Majesty the Em-
peror are to render his Holiness incapable of ell--
filling his sacred duties,- by dispersing his Senate„
and overturning the Church establishment, and re-
moving froM him these persons most "dear 'to him,
thereby depriving him Of the only conSolation which
remained to him in the exercise of Itis Apostolical,
fundions, always on the'credine.
The Pope is not only the. Bishop of-Rbitie, as
bath been so improperly asserted, but he is at the.
same time the Head of the-CathoEc Church, and-, in.
that character he is entitled to choose his Ministers
-and Coadjutors from the diffe.tent na!lons of the -
earth. In fad, since the commencement of. Chris-
tianity, the Clergy of :Rome have been always com-
posed not only, of llomans, but of individuals from
all nations, as. is evident from the number of stran-
gers admitted 'amongst the Clergy of 'Rome, and:
who, during the first four,centunes, ascended the
(hair of 'St. Peter. All 'these motives justify the
grief of his Holiness,
.Who protestvagainst a law
which spares" not even distinguished' EcclesiaStics,
choSen'tb assist him in his labchirs for the chnrCh of
God. ,His Holiness at the same time strongly pro- •,
tests, in the face of all the earth, aga', it the..uSurp-.
alien of his States. He solemnly deCiares it to be
unjust, vain, void, and of ho avail that it never
can truly ailed the imprescriptible and legitimate
rights. of sovereignty and possession of his Holiness
and successors fbr ever and' if force shall deprive
him of its possession; he is determined to maintain
the integrity of his rights,, because the Holy See can'
recover the, real possession, when it may please the
true and faithful who fights fin- ' justice, (Ind
who !lath inscribed 'On his garments and forehead
the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF, LdRDS. • •

At the same Glee his Holiness addresses the-most
ardent. vows to the Father of .:v.lercy, inspire his
subjects, withdraWn from his power, and who'o4ll
always remain dearto his heart; with a -siiiri:t.of
pa-
tience and resignation, to the end that they may one
day obtain froM heaven consolation and peace, and
that they may always preserve inviolate in 'their
hearts religion and faith. The Coil of Igael will
grant his people-strength and virtue.. •- •
- • Theseare the sentiments -and proicitations which
the undersigned has. been required by, his HolineSs
to make to your F,xcellency, as Charge d'afaires of
the•Kingdam of Italy, with which these Provinces
ItiVe been incorporated. The Undersigned bath
made` it 'a sacred duty to- obey fait Wu' ly 'the order's
which.he has .received, and at the same time .to re-
new to you the assurance of his sincere crnsider-
ation.

(Signed) G. CARDINAL GABRIELLI.

• A curious piece of antiquity has lately been dis-
covered in the church-yard of Hemel Heinstead, in"
Hertfordshire. In digging a vault for a young lady
of the name of Warren, the sexton, when he had
excavated the earth about four feet below the sur-
face of the ground, found his spade to strike against
something solid, which, upon inspe6tion, he fount!;
to, be a large wrought stone, which prove 4 to be the
lid of a coffin, and under it the coffin entire, which
was afterwards taken up,in perfeti tomiition 3; but
the bones contained- therein, an being exposed to;
the air, crumbled to dust., On the Ikl of the coffin
is an inscription, partly effaced by
,time, but stilt
sufficiently legible, decidedly to prove it contained'
the'ashes of the celebrated Offal King of the Mer-
clans; who• rebUilt the Abby of St.'AlbAn's, ,and
died in the eighth century. The coffin is about
6. feet long, and contains a niche or re4ting
for the head,,and also a groove on each side kn. the.
arms, •LkeWiSe for the legs ; it is curiously carved,'
and.altogether. uniquc! of the kind. The Curate of
the parish, the Rev. Mr. Bingham, .has deposited it
iU a house adjacent td the church-yard, 'Where the
curious are flocking daily and' liburly to see it. The
church was built in the Selienth century. The
road runs within' a naile of this plage, aqd
many Roman cows haire lately been found.vicinity, particularly While• digging for the 'Grand
jun-t,tion Canal. .

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