The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

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LONJON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1847.

Rome and Austria are now in direct collision.
Abandoned to itself, we are satisfied that Rome will
not be assailed with impunity. The Pontifical
LIBERATOR has surrounded himself with bulwarks
more impregnable than fosse or rampart ; he has
raised a phalanx more invincible in its organization
than that of the Phyrrics. Italy is armed with en-
thusiasm, and that enthusiasm is rendered the more
irresistible by its unanimity. Whatever may have
hitherto been the successes of METTERNICIT, he will
inevitably meet with discomfiture in his infamous
aggressions upon the Papal States, for Pope Pius IX.
has rendered those states the abode of strength, and
loyalty, and power, and confidence by invoking the
Spirit of Patriotism. The Spirit of Patriotism is
the Palladium of Rome, and it is better than that of
Troy, seeing that its influence cannot be counteracted
by guile or audacity.
Impregnable, however, as is that portion of the Italian
peninsula which is subject to the authority of
the Sovereign Poscrirr, it is impossible to conceal the
fact that the Government of Vienna has still the
capacity to cause the most deplorable excesses and
bloodshed by its hostile movements, and its many
diabolical machinations. The conspiracy which was
almost consummated in the Piazza del Popolo on the
anniversary of the amnesty, shows this; and the
recent occupation of Ferrara is another emphatic cor-
roboration. It becomes, therefore, the bounden duty
of those kingdoms which are allied to Rome and its
reforming Chieftain, in the spirit of liberality which
is the very genius of their constitutions, to afford
either countenance or assistance to them in their
present dangerous and deplorable predicament. Civi-
lisation demands this; religion demands it ; seif
interest demands it; reason and humanity alike de-
mand it. What would History say if the Free
Nations of Christendom looked on with a passive
indifference at the invasion, and possibly the subju-
gation, of the Roman territories by the hireling
troopers of despotism, at the very dawn of that liberty
which promised the emancipation of many millions ?
She would say that those nations were culpable
beyond the mere culpability of indolence ; she would
assert, and assert truly, that they were parties to the
retrogressive movements of the German EMPEROR,
that their neutrality covered them with the guilt of
complicity, and rendered them odious and contemp-
tible in the eyes of posterity. That wculd be the
certain deduction of History, supposing the more
enlightened Governments connived at the evil deeds of
the crowned criminal of Austria. Already has the Ca-
binet of Vienna prospered with impunity by following
the dictates of its avarice. It has fomented such
villauous passions in Gallicia that the country has
been saturated with the blood of wholesale assassina-
tions. It has exulted in the spoliation of Cracow
with no more serious consequence than a formal re-
monstrance from the Court of the United Kingdoms.
It has endeavoured to effect the massacre of the
Roman population by plots more dastardly than those
of CETHEGUS and LENTULUS. And, notwithstanding
all these infamous proceedings, it is still unembar-
rassed by the opposition of those Governments who
should strive to suppress its malign influence, and de-
stroy its most execrable devices.
Austria has at length taken courage to itself from
the apparent lethargy of its natural antagonists.
Lieutenant Marshal Count AUERSPERG has taken mi-
litary possession of Ferrara in the name of
his imperial master; and the brave ClAcdnr,
the Cardinal Legate of the province, has solemnly
protested against that invasion of the dominions of his
llorasiEss, "in the most holy name of GOD !"
Austria, then, has drawn the sword ; the scabbard
will soon be Rung
away, and the Romans will have
to fight for their freedom, and not only for their own
freedom, but for the freedom of many generations.
The Romans! Let that name inspire
them.
Let
t"
them press onwards under the banners of the great
FERBETTI to the measure of the war-song of the
kindred Tribune—the last of the Tribunes.--
RIENZI :

" March ! march ! for your hearths and your altars:
Cursed to all time be the dastard who lAters.
Never on earth may his sins be forgiven ;
Death on his soul slut the portals or heaven :
A curse on his brow, and a curse on his brain ;
Who fights not for Rome, shall to Rome be her Cain
Every generous heart in Europe throbbed with in
dignation at the news of the American invasion of
Mexico, how much more at the Austrian invasion of
Italy--of Italy, just awakening to the light of free-
dom—of Italy, led in the van of the nations by the
enlightened and patriotic Pius ! England cannot
remain idle while the emancipated population of the
Roman provinces is threatened,
and is not only
threatened, but actually assailedby the forces of the
Vienna Cabinet. From France
uaill aid to the Sove-
reign PONTIFF is hopeless. AI.GoT. is so bewitched
he
?by the evil eye of Absolutism ;
7 HOLINESS
inoculated
.cv:th the virus of Retrogression, that hi
OLINESS can-
not look for assistance, and scarcely for neutrality, in
that quarter. One reprisal remains
open to the
Ft( „Dr, and it is a reprisal imperatively demandoed by
nature, sanctioned by policy, enforced by religion
and required by decency. By granting a iiivorceto)
isikßEl
.L.l 11-. a terrible blow would be struck at the
power of the Tuileries' intriguers, the Sprmish
nation would be released from shame and ignominy,
her cutbui:ic MAJESTY would be restored to her We find the following in the Nurernburg Cor-
respondent :_,, We announced some time since that
a Polish lady who had arrived he
lre for the purpose
ohfadthbeeeanccguivseednoPffibyociAall.
cr
self-resnect as a woman, and her independence as a
of seeingwohniceh
in consequence of the informationshadbeeonf senther
queen, the !KING-CONSORT would be :eft to his
imbecility aid his orisons, and Italy would be
jboauerkn,ey,
UIZOT to the
ffiourrranatlbs,at thethe
backed, not merely by the aid which we anticipate
for her from E, •viand, but by the friendship and
gratitude of Spain. Once restore the Spaniards to a authorities. The French
.11.1oniteur and the Journal des Debuts ts afar sense of their nationality—cnce inflame their hearts
with the memory of fact is false. Notwithstanding the brighter (.lays, and render their
affirm that the fact is true. It is saidse tahsasetrttilr ladywe
Monarch,. as of yore
"The glory of old Arragon, and the prid,is the sister of the accused MIEROSLAWSIII, and that
1 of old Castile.,
she wished to see her brother once again."
Once do thus—and the divo would do it !—and We have no doubt but that the assertion of the
Spain would be prepared not Meer
beating back her assailants, but merely to abet Rome in Nuremburgh Correspondent is correct. We know
Ap•ork out Iry he from his that M. GUIZOT does not consider
end her own regeneration. The
then be numbered again among the myouenntaee-s 7214 it necessary at all times to tell the whole truth, and
globe, stnd Fraiwe would be left to her ihterualseo- tht-
acting in this instance as he acted towards the Mar-
Wee via 9f IsIORXANDY, he will no doubt say that he did

seconds should, if possible, be treated with

greater severity than the principals, for they
can have no injured or outraged feelings to

plead,
.but wilfully and unnecessarily involve
themselves in the transaction ;—let this be done, and

we venture to affirm that duelling will be suppressed.
It must be made an expensive luxury; and if, in
addition, the parties who fancy themselves heroes are
subjected to the prison discipline for a few months, a
wonderful change will be wrought in their feelings,
and a holy horror will be felt at the offence which
had been regarded with the utmost levity.