The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

GENERAL DR LAMORICIERE'S

APPOINTMENT.

The Independance Beige says of General de Lamo-
riciere's appointment to the command of the Papal

troops
We know at last the object of General de Lamo-
riciere's journey to the Roman States. The Journal
of Rome of April 7 announces his appointment to
the chief command of the Papal troops. Up to the
last moment we wished to doubt that the general
could so far forget his past career, so break with
his noble friendships and cancel his real services.
Now doubt is no longer possible, and the error has

been committed.
General de Lamoriciere, who in 1849 regretted
his inability to save Mazziui's republic, and who
merely accepted the expedition to Rome as a mes-
sage for saving the liberty of the inhabitants, can
no longer avail himself of the same excuses.
During the last 12 years the Holy See, protected
by the presence of the French troops, might have
laid the foundations of that liberty. It has done no-
thing of the kind. It has remained deaf to all ad-
vice, to all warning ; even the hard lessons of the
present times have produced no effect on it, and
in the separation of the Romagnas it has seen
merely the rebellion of a few restless spirits excited
by the ambition of a foreign prince. In nowise has
it thought of looking into itself and asking itself if
its own Governmental proceedings had nothing to
do with the disaffection of the governed.
What the Holy See neglected to do when it had
the power, without danger, sure of the applause and
encouragement of all Europe, it will still less do
now in favour of populations groaning under their
yoke and passionately desiring those benefits which
the Romagnols have forcibly obtained for them-
selves. Those populations will be kept down, not
by a national army formed from their midst, but by
a horde of foreign mercenaries gathered and re-
cruited from every country, to assist in this work
of oppression and tyranny. Such are the men whom
General de Lamoriciere has consented to command
—such is the work to which he lends the authority
of his name.
As for the reforms, they will become what they
can become. Cardinal Antonelli will take good
care of that, and when necessary, in the name of
canonical law, will abduct some fresh Mortara child
from the arms of its mother ; General de Lamori-
ciere will be the accomplice and executioner of this
barbarous crime ; when it shall be necessary to re-
new the mighty exploits of Perugia, General de La-
moricier, commanding the pillagers of the city, will
become the emulator and rival of the Schmidts and
Kalberntattens. Such is the position freely ac-
cepted by a man who has been living in exile, and
calling himself a martyr of liberty, of violated
right.
A proclamation by General de Lamoriciere,
which we have this instant received, proves to us
that we are even too indulgent towards him in the
preceding reflections. In fact, in this proclamation
the general, for the purpose of misleading both
public opinion and the soldiers he is going to com-
mand, identifies the cause of civilisation and liberty
with that of the Papal Government. He proclaims
all those to be revolutionary who do not bow down
before the monstrous abuses of the Roman theo-
cracy. It is impossible to belie truth more signally,
impossible to cover with a more deceitful mask a
real tergiversation.

The Pope has at last got a real General, who
promises to raise for him a real army. General
Lamoriciere has gone to Rome, not as a mercenary
soldier, but as a devotee, and has issued his first
order of the day as Commander-in-Chief of the Pon-
tifical troops. The Pope has no confidence in that
"vendetta of prayers" which he lately threatened;
and as for his excommunication, even Mr. Bowyer
assures us that it is no curse. Bayonets and can-
non are after all the true supports of the Papal
chair, so his Holiness has sent for an old Algerian
officer, and the sword which for near fifteen years
quelled the fiery Moslem is now to keep in awe,
and if need be smite, the Christian flock of the
Holy Father. We congratulate the gallant Gene-
ral on his new function. We applauded his gal-
lantry in Africa and his patriotism in the National
Assembly ; we admired the dignity with which he
bore the wrongs inflicted on him with so many
others when Louis Napoleon perpetrated the coup-
(Feint ; but we did not suspect that the eloquent
denouncer of the exped)tion to Rome would erne day
consent to be the hired hangman of a Government
of priests, and convert into a reign of terror the
foreign occupation of Rome, which he was among
the first to condemn.
The General's address to his soldiers—a part of
which has been verbally transmitted by the tele-
graph—is a strange document to appear at Rome.
" Catholic Christianity," says the General, " is the
life of civilisation. Europe is, threatened by revo-
lution, as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause
of the Pope is that of Civilisation and Liberty."
Any objection we might feel inclined to make
to these assertions i 3 nothing compared with the
gain which we descry in the spirit of the appeal.
It is then at last thought worth the while of the
Papacy to reason. and to satisfy men's judgment
and conscience. This is indeed innovation. Gene-
ral Lamoriciere, we dare say, would have struck
as hard at Perugia as Colonel Schmidt, but
no Swiss or Austrian officer serving the Pope
would have put the words "civilisation" and
" liberty" in an order of the day. Whether the
Pope's cause is that of civilisation and liberty, the,
Pope's subjects know much better than the French
general can tell them ; but, at any rate, M. Lamo-
riciere's language is an admission that it ought to
be. The -Romans will thank him for this. It will
be impossible hereafter to proscribe those two dread.
fill words. The general has made a complete
armoury of sacerdotal weapons—divine mission,
authority of St. Peter and Paul, sacred rights, and
other Roman implements—quite obsolete by a stroke
of the pen. Chambers and matchlocks, much less
pikes and crossbows, will not work with the Minie
musket and rifled cannon. Are General Lamori-
ciere's orders of the day free of the censorship ?
.'We infer from the words of General Lamoriciere
that he has carried to Ro ne something better than
a sword. The worthy aspirations his proclamation
betrays are French, not Papal. 'W can easily give
him credit for sincerely desiring that the Papal
cause may become what he says it is. He is just
now in his first sanguine drys, and he is to be
pitied, for he has undertaken a task beyond human
strength. He cannot change the Papal Govern
ment, the char Icter and works of which belong to
its nature. As a theocracy it cannot condescend to
the level of other and more h formsa of go-
vernment, and set the interestsu of the governed
before itself as the chief cud of its existence. Be-
fore long General Lamoriciere will either retire
from Rome, as many generous men who wished
well to the Pope have done, disgusted with the un-
natural spectacle of a whole people excluded from
national life to become the domestic servants of a
college of priests ; or, like M. de Rayneval, he will
sacrifice his experience and his good sense to super-
stition. The notions of reform and progress which
he entertains will soap bring him face to face
with that rock of infallibility. against which so
many bright prospects have been shattered. lie
will hear the fatal non possumus, and learn that he
has been sent for to defend and not to regulate the
temporal power of the Pope. Even this humble
office he ,will find above his strength. He may
organise an Italian army in the Roman States,
for which Italy will be grateful to him ; but when-
ever that army sheds its blood. it will not be for a
knot of intriguing fanatics separated from the na-
tion by every idea and every interest, the. Monsi-
gnori who despise them and eat them up. In vain
does the Pope collect devoted adherents from Brit-
tany, Ireland, or Bavaria. Every stranger who.
takes service under him only demonstrates the more
evidently to the world the parasitical nature of his
rule. The few persons among the great body of in-
structed Catholics who are so unjust as to desire
that the population of a whole State should be sac-
rificed to the earthly grandeur of their spiritual
lord, will find themselves no match for a people'
bent on obtaining good government and its gua-
rantees for themselves and their children. In any
case the Roman people will not acquiesce in a eivi-
lisatlon represented by the Index Expurgatorius,
nor in the liberty administered by the Inquisition.
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