The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Pope published the following proclamation on
Christmas-day :
" Having been by Divine disposition, and in a man-
ner nearly wonderful, raised, although ourselves un-
worthy, to the High Pontificate, one of our first cares
was to promote union among the subjects of the tempo-
ral state of the Church, to consolidate the peace of fami-
lies, and to contribute in every possible manner to their
benefit, and, as far as in us lay, to render the state
flourishing and tranquil. But the benefits we endea-
voured to impart to our subjects, and the liberal insti-
tutions with which we deigned to accede to their desires,
instead of procuring that gratitude and devotion
which we had every right to expect, have, too frankly,
we must acknowledge it, brought only repeated bitter-
ness and displeasure to our heart, from the part of those
ungrateful people, who, whatever may be their number,
our paternal eye would always wish to see restrained.
It is now known to the world in what manner wo have
been deceived, and that an alma has been made
of our concessions, subverting the spirit, and per-
verting
.the sense of our words, in order to deceive
the multitude; and also how those same benefits and in-
stitutions have been used by some as a shield to the
most violent excesses against our sovereign authority,
and against the temporal rights of the Holy See. Our
mind shrinks from the duty of particularly lamenting
the late events from the commencement of the 15th day
of last November, when a confidential Minister was
barbarously murdered in full day, by the hand of an
assassin, and the act was still more barbarously ap-
plauded by a class of madmen, enemies equally of
God and men, as of the Church and every honest
political institution. This' first crime opened a series
of others, which, with sacrilegious boldness, were com-
mitted during the following day; and seeing that these
have already met with the execration of all virtuous
minds, in our own state, in Italy, and in Europe, and
will further encounter the same in all parts of the world,
we spare our heart the immense grief of repeating them.
We were constrained to withdraw ourselves from the
place where they were committed, from the place where
violence prevented us from applying the remedy, reduced
only to weep with the good, and to deplore with them
these sad events, to which is added the still more grievous
fact, that justice is utterly inactive against the authors
of such abominable crimes. Providence has conducted
us to this city of Gaeta, where, finding ourselves in
full liberty, we again solemnly repeated our pro-
tests against the above-mentioned violences, which
we had from the beginning made in Rome itself before
the representatives accredited to us from the dif-
ferent Courts of Europe and other distant na-
tions. We did not at the same time omit in this
act to give temporarily to our States a legitimate Repre-
sentative Government, without derogating from our ac-
corded institutions, in order that the capital and the State
might still remain provided with the regular and ordi-
nary administration of public affairs, and to insure
the security of the persons and property of our
subjects. We further prorogued the session of the
High Council, and the Council of Deputies, who
bad been recently called to resume their inter-
rupted sittings ; but these our determinations, far
from persuading those persons, the perturbatora
of the peace, and the authors of such sacrilegious
violences,_ to re-enter the path of duty, have but
incited them to greater crimes, arrogating to themselves
those sovereign rights which alone belong to us, by
having convoked in the capital, by means of the two
Councils, an illegitimate Representative Government,
under the title of Provisional and Supreme Junta of the
State, and published in the act of the 22d day of this
month. These obligations are inseparable from our
sovereignty, and the solemn oaths by which, in the pre-
sence of the Lord, we have promised to preserve the
patrimony of the Holy See, and to transmit it in its in-
tegrity to our successors.
" It constrains us to raise our voice aloft,andtopro-
test before God and the whole world against this so gray©
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