The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-27 00:00:00

No. IV.

" Mareir27, 1808.. •
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t,;...... . Cardinal GABRIELLI, I'ro•Secretary of State to
'i'' tlolluess, has received positive orders from the
tI9IY FathQr in. person, to inform your illustrious
,g2)ness, that the violence committed against the
''°,lll of the Cardinals, ',wives of the Kingdom'. of
Linat.PleS, "ever would have been 'believed, if it had
,„--tis been repeated against the persons of the Cardi-:
.s born in the Kingdom of Itaiy, and the countries
alined to France.

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" rhely c...nc..5t or present be itnorant,
that it is not only intended to deprive. him of his
cemporal atithbrity-, but.that there is al o a deogn IO
'ileitr(?y the Spiritual Government of the Church of
Rome, represented by the Sacred College, which is'
the Senate of the Sovereign Pontiff.
`! He has seen with horror and surprise those prin-
ciples and maxims which brealc the most sacred
.bands by which the Cardinals are united to the Poie
by all the force of a solemn oath, preceded and fol-
lowed as they have been by ad the indignities to
which the Head of the Church .has been exposed.
Examples of such -cudrmities are only to be found in
the time of the RepUblic, when Rome saw the Most
sacred principles trodden under loot.

" Ifa Secular Prince, professing the Catholic re-
ligion, and believing that he has a right to detain in
his territories, as his subjeCtS, Cardinals of the Church
of Rome, finds himself still under the necessity of
treating them with that respect due to the eminent
charaaer by which they are COnneeled with the
Holy Pontiff, it follows that he hag no right to banish
them, or to remove them by open force, thus tear-
ing from the Chief of the liniverol Church so many
of his fellow-labourers.

" This attempt, 'which will be a theme of re-
proach in the present and future age, has pa-rtiCUlar-
ly wounded the feeling mind of his Holiness, as well
otraccount of the unheard-of insult which .has been
offered to-the-Cardinal dignity, as the outrage to his
Holy Person by which. it was accompanied ; his
Vicar and Prime Minister having no more been re-
speaed than the. Bishops who were torn from their
respective dioceses. •
". The Holy Father, aware of all the evils which
these cruel and violent measures must necessarily
Cause to the spiritual government of the Church, has
commanded the Undersigned to protest strongly
against them, and to require at the same time that
the Cardinals, forcibly carried oil against every prin-•
ciple of the rights of nations, be liberated. As to
the rest, always resigned to the judgments of God,
and confirmed by the innate testimony of a pure
conscience, he tivill patiently support in the cause of
justice the hard treatment which he has not merited,
and faithful to his sacred duty, atter having exhaust-
ed all his effoils to allay the teriapeat which shakes
the Holy Seat, he will leave to Heaven the care of
proteding and defending it, and to posterity the
right of pronouncing on the justice of his cause.
,Snch are the sentiments which his Holiness has
peremptorily commanded the Undersigned to ex-
press to your illustrious Highness, and in perform..
ing this duty, he renews, &c.
" P. Cardinal GABRIELLI."
" -To Lefebvre, French Charge d'Alaites."
No. V. is a note writteh by Cardinal GABRIELLI,
the POPE'S Treasurer, containing his Holiness's
,order to pay Cardinals SaLuzzo and PIGNATELL.r,
transported to the north
.of Italy, and whose pro-
perty at Naples was confiscated, the sum of 1000
crowns each, probided the Treasurer could produce so
much, of which his Holiness is much in doubt..