The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The part which Austria has played, and is playing, in
the Papal aggression affair, is borne out, to a great ex-
tent, by what appears in the accredited organ of the
Austrian Government. In what our correspondent
quotes from the Austrian Lloyd, more is meant thin
meets the eye. The journal is afraid to speak out; but
enough transpires to indicate the feelings and the con-
duct of the Austrian Government on the question of
Papal aggression in England. .
As presumptive evidence of the part which the Cabinet
or Vienna has played in this matter, it may be right to
direct attention to the fact, that Dr. Wiseman, on receiv-
ing his double appointment as Cardinal and Archbishop of
Westminster, proceeded to Vienna before returning to this
country. It is strange that a fact so significant should have
been overlooked in all the discussions and controversies
which have recently taken place on the subject. Nor
was the visit of the newly-appointed Cardinal to Vienna
a merely passing or complimentary visit: he remained
in the Austrian capital forty-eight hours, during which
protracted period—protracted in the peculiar circum-
stances of the cale—he was in almost uninterrupted rer•
Bona communication with Prince Schwartzenberg.
There is, therefore, we repeat, taking all the circum-
stances of the case into consideration, the strongest pre-
sumptive reasons fur believing that our correspondent is
right, when be asserts that Austrian influences are at the
bottom of that Papal insolence and these Papal assumptions
which have aroused so intense and universal a feeling of in-
dignation in the United Kingdom. It was not likely,on the
taco of matters, that Dr. Wi.eman would have dared to
counsel the Roman Pontiff to act as he has done, unless
there had been some secret promptings, some private
of which the world knows nothing. Even
with the counsels and promised support of a foieign
power, the step was a bold ore. We may, therefore,
readily believe that, without such instigation, we should
never have beard of the daring audacity of the Pope.
People will naturally ask, what could have been the
motives which induced the Government of Vienna to in-
terfere at all in a matter in which they had no imme-
diets concern. All the considerations which weighed
with Austria, in acting as she has done, will probably
never be known, but some of them are easy of com-
prehension.

She is, first of all, a Roman Catholic power. That
fact would not be without its weight in disposing her
to the course she has adopted. But there are other and
still more potential considerations which are no less
obvious. The Court of Vienna has not yet forgiven Eng-
land, and never will forgive her, for the line of conduct
which she pursued during the Hungarian war. By identi-
fying herself with the cause of Hungarian independence, in
the noble and manly manner in which she did, England
incurred the fierce and imperishable hatred of Austria.
That power was not, and is nut, nor will she ever be, in
a condition to retaliate openly on this country; but from
that hour the Cabinet of Vienna made up its mind to
annoy and harass Great Britain in eery possible way,
whenever an opportunity should present itself.
And Austria reasoned rightly, when she concluded,
that no more effectual mode of annoyance to this coun-
try could be adopted, than to put forward the Roman
Pontiff as a virtual rival to her Majesty, for political
and ecclesiastical power in these realms. So far Austria
has been successful in her schemes. The whole country
is incensed and mortified a, the audacity of the Papal
pretensions. All classes feel the affront. The indigna-
tion it has caused is equally shared from the highest to
the lowest in the land—from the Sovereign on the throne
to the humblest of her subjects.
But Austria had other motives still in instigating the
imbecile Pontiff of Rome to pursue the course which he
has adopted. She knows full well bow exceedingly useful
Popery has been to her in carrying out her despotic de-
signs. The Church of Rome has been an able auxiliary
in every tyrannical plan she has formed. She never
yet contemplated a measure, having for its object
to enthral and debase the mind, in the carrying out of
which she might not confidently rely on the zealous
co-operation of the Romish Church. That Church has
proved, in all countries where she has acquired an
ascendancy, the most efficient instrument wirich
human ingenuity ever devised, for promoting the
objects of political despotism. Austria knows full
well, that could Romanism only obtain a footing
in the councils of the Sovereign of Great Britain, the
political retrogression of the country would not only be
certain, but immediate. The backwards process would
commence at once, and would proceed at an astound-
ingly rapid pace, until our country had become as de-
based and enslaved as Austria herself.
Nor is Austria the only continental country that is
interested in theind tehoenpfliroc:
watching with profenuontel
which is now going on between Popery an
Theree is not a
Protes-
tantism, in these realleue.despotic Court
in Europe which is
d termination of the struggle. They know, one
pro-
gress an intensely interest
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was to the triumph
and all, that as itof
Protestant
principles that we owe the Constitution of 1688, so it is
continued prevalence of Protestant
to the
that we are indebted for the preservation of those prin-
ciples of civil and religious liberty which has made Eng-
lanedrcd
sally n the the greatestworld country, morally,socially, andm co-
m, i.
The people of England, therefore, cannot be too fre-
eisently or forcibly reminded that The battle which is
now waging between them and the legions of Popery
involves other than purely religious issues. All our civil
liberties, all our raost cherished political rights and privi-
leges are at stake. We do not despair—we never have de-
spaired—of the result. Though the Minister has faltered
and failed in the hour of trial, the country remains true to
itself and to its Protestantism. We, therefore, regard
the triumph of the latter as certain. The conflict may
be protracted a little longer, but it will only be to render
the discomfiture of the Popish hosts more complete; it
will only be to ensure to Protestantism a more signal
victory.—Morning Advertiser.

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