The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

THE APPEAL OF TELL _ROMANS.

The following are the petitions of the Romans to
the Emperor Napoleon and to King Victor Em
manuel. They have been signed by nearly 10,000
Romans, including about 50 noblemen

" PETITION OF THE ROMANS TO THE
EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111.
" Sire,—The rapid succession of events in Italy, and the
condition, every day more unhappy, of this city, command
the patriarchate and people of Rome to raise their voices,
that you; Sire, and Europe, may hear the true expression
of our desires and our wants.

" The independence of Italy, the reconstruction of the
Italian race into a vital, single, and compact nation has been,
the dream of 10 centuries, the aspirations of 50 generations.
If that dream is to-day a reality, if our generations to come
shall no longer share the tears and slavery of past genera-.
tions, it is a glory, Sire, which history will join to your
name and to the name of the generous sons of France who
fought at Magenta and Solferino. Victorious On battle-
fields, establishing as a basis of treaties the principle of non.
Intervention, you have avenged us in our liberty, you have
freed us from foreign and internal oppression. But that
the work may be completed, and that Italy may be consoli-
dated in tranquillity, it is necessary that the principle of
non-intervention, the expression of the universal suffrage,
the foundation of the new European right and of the new.
Governments, should not be vainly invoked for Rome, the
natural centre of regenerated Italy.
"You have done all that was in your power to save the
temporal dumain of the Holy See. If you have not suc-
ceeded, it is because of the force of events, because of the
impossibility of institutions and convictions too much op-
posed to the principle of 1789, too strange to accord with
the needs of the Italian nationality. Now, the moment is a
solemn one, Sire, and we ought to say the whole truth. If
the resistance of the Pontifical Court to satisfy these needs
is any longer maintained, not only will there follow the.
total ruin of the moral and material interests t
of Rome, but;
even the existence of Catholicism in Italy will be compeu...
mised. The constantly-increasing aversion of the Italians
for the policy of the Papal ;Court may occasion a schism
fatal to Europe, to Italy, and to the Church whose faith We
profess and whose traditions we venerate. It is then neces-
sary, for the interest of the Catholic world, as well as for our
national interest, that two Powers, at this day incompatible
under the authority of one and the same person, sil'auld be
separate, and that, regard being had to all the guarantees
that can protect the spiritual authority of the Pontiff, that
authority should be left the Church, and Rome should be
reunited to Italy, from which she cannot and will not re-
main separated. Sire, our consciences command us to
declare to you and to Europe that such are the wishes or
the city of Rome. We have a firm confidence that you wilt
render complete the gratitude of Italy by permitting the
wishes of Rome to be satisfied.

," ADDRESS OF THE ROMANS TO VICTOR.
EMMANUEL.

" Sire,—Rome, to whom has been hitherto refused the
right of enfranchisement granted to her sister towns, has
not had, and could not have, any one to represent her in
the great act by which Italy, constituted for the first time,
has proclaimed you its King by means of the national Par-
liament. But Rome was present in intention at the solemn
act, and, as already she has placed her confidence in you, and
her hopes beneath the shadow of your flag, she now believes
it her duty to break the long silence which those whose a.
terest it is to calumniate her might misinterpret.
" Rome, then, in the only manner possible to her, joins
her vote with that of the Italian Parliament, and proclaims
you her King. Receive then, Sire, by this address, the
desires of the Roman patriarchate and people, which the
undersigned, making themselves the interpreters of them,
have the honour to present you, declaring at the same time
that these votes and no others would be found in the urn of
universal suffrage, if it were permitted to Rome to express
her wishes by that Warts.

" Civilised Europe must think that if a nation has the
right of choosing its capital, Rome cannot be disputed to
Italy except force be substituted for right and justice.
Rome, nevertheless, waits for you, Sir; she raises her arms
towards Sou; she asks that your flag—the flag of Italy—
may he hoisted over the old Capitol."