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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1859.

M. DE LA G CERRONIERE has had both a very
easy task and a quite impossible task. It was easy
to show that the Romagna could not be replaced
under the Government of the POPE without viola-
ting religion, morality, and public policy to an ex-
tent Which could not be tolerated ; but, to show
that the poor Romans ought not to enjoy the same
privileges as the Romagnese, is beyond the power
of the Imperial Essayist or of any other. Our author
thinks he has found the solution of a grand diffi-
culty. There are those who would strip the POPE
of his temporal power; there are those who would
gyve him back all he ever had, if they could. M.
DE LA GUERIIONIERE thinks -he has found the
happy middle path. He is an impartial
arbitrator, and his award is a compromise..
Give the Romagnese the liberty they have seized;
keep the Romans in the blessed slavery for which
they may thank General GUYON and his master.
In a part of his argument Englishmen will of
course follow him with ease and a' certain degree of
pleasure. Any elaborate proof that the POPE
ought not to receive back at the hands of Europe
a territory full of subjects who detest his rule ;
that even if he ought, neither can France re-enslave
the liberated, nor Austria be allowed to domineer
in Italy again, nor Naples venture to interfere,
without an Italian civil war with Piedmont ; that,
therefore, the Romagna must enjoy what it has
gained. Any well-argued case like this is
to Englishmen but a clever performance on a
different ground to their own. We havo an axiom,
and, by that axiom, all is easily settled—that every
nation ought to be left to choose its own rulers.
The writer himself indeed is compelled to admit
this principle; for he mentions how France herself
has acted on it, and aided other nations to do the
same. Louis NAPOLEON and his amanuensis will
find all plain sailing thus far. Of course Arch-
bishop CULLEN and his noisy followers will ana-
thematise the writer and his master ; but all
sensible Catholics, as well as all other British free-
men who prize their. own liberties, will agree in
the EmPEr.oa's views solar as the Romagnese are
concerned.

But what about the Romans and the master
imposed on them by French bayonets ? It must
be evident that M. DE LA GUERRONIERE has not
been able to invent a single argument on
which he himself seriously relies. If the
POPE is to retain Rome only in virtue of such ar-
guments as he has brought forward, its doom is
sealed. Had the writer dared to speak out, he
would assuredly have said, " There is not a single
respectable reason for enslaving the Romans, more
than the Bolognese, to the POPE, but if we do not
find something like reasons for it, there will be such
a hubbub with the French clergy that the Empire
itself may be shaken !" We have not the slightest
doubt that the Imperial author of the pamphlet as

well as its literary godfather, are both of precisely
the same way of thinking as ourselves, and are
quite as prepared as we are to pitch the temporal
power:of the PIPE into the 'fiber.
One of our author's grand reasons is, that
the head of 200,000,000 of Catholics must
not be the sßbject of any singles power.
To. which the ready answer seem to be
" exempt him, then, by special treaty or convention,
from subjection to any power in whose territory he
sees fit to reside." Say that Rome shall continue
to be his residence,—then let his cathedral and all