The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1849.

Another of the most liberal and enlightened Sove-
reigns of Christendom has just been compelled to fly
from the capital of his dominions, and to seek shelter
in an obscure seaport, from the ingratitude of the
very people upon whom he has squandered his bene-
factions. If Plus IX. has been driven by the insen-
sate passions of his children from Rome to Gaeta,
4oroLD 11. has been obliged to fly for his life from
Ilorence to Piombino. And while these paternal
Monarchs are expiating in banishment the crime of
their benevolence, the tyrant of Naples remains upon
his throne unmolested, the charlatan of Prussia con-
tinues in the plenitude of his royal authority, and
the stripling upholder of Austrian Absolutism
wields his sceptre ‘viii uurelebting power ever
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ut despotical, they con bitter preserve to then
selves the pumps and riches of .heir dignity. They
see that the very men who summon their people to
the eljoyment of the blessings ut treedom are those
who are repaid for their ge. erosity by being hurled
down from their temporary elevatiou by the ignorant
and fanatical races they have emancipated. In all
this there is bitter reason for the friends of liberty to
weep over the destinies of Italy, over those destinies
which dawned so gloriously immediately upon the
accession of JOHN MASTAI FERRETTI to the chair of
the Sovereign Pontificate, but which has since been
overclouded by the ultra-democratic madness which
h,s seized upon the unfortunate Italians themselves.
The crime which has conduced to the downfal of
the Grand Duke of TUSCANY is the crime of his
liberal enlightenment. Like the POPE, he had
voluntarily bestowed a Free Constitution on the
multitude. Recently he had gone even further; he
had signed with his own hand the decree, ordaining
that thirty-'seven Tuscan deputies should participate
in the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly.
The beneficence of his policy has, however, only
elicited the ingratitude of the population. An insur-
rectionary movement in the capital has compelled
him to escape furtively from Florence—to hasten
from Sienna, where three of his faithful ad-
herents were massacred under his very windows,
and to take refuge in Piombino, whence it is
conjectured that he may have subsequently proceeded
to Porto Ferrago, in that island of PHA which is
celebrated as the place of the Great Emperor's first
captivity. In the case of Pros IX. the popular out-
break is more comprehensible than in that of LEOPOLD
11. 'The accusation levelled against the Pormtrr, the
cause of the assassination of his Prime Minister, the
reason for the sudden oblivion of the glorious acts
Which bad one.,by one: emanated from the heart, and
been achieved by the hand of Pio Noma, was the fact
that the Powrirr refused to declare war against
Austria. In consequence of that refusal the
ational Guard turned those arms, which he him-
self had given them, against his palace, and
the National Assembly, which he himself
had called into existence continued their Sittings with
the most dastardly apathy, while a foul murder was
being Ferp,trated upon hie
very threshild. Not-
withstanding this,
notwithstanding the Husalinahs
sung to the poignard which had slain Count Rossi,
there %vas a plain and appreaiahle reason for the out-
break of the noonlace. The Pora had re-

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