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Holy Father, diet it was the decid al wilds of hi; anis: :sal of, the Cardinals, his Ideliee s, in. the ismepl . 4
jesty the, Emperor and King, that he shouldenter iota *Herds lieti no need of exismining tise•Fineiisie .41 -
an offensive •and deflosiee lee wiils the ot...er :1144 allegiance- Presarifieg.oa that freedom whidk
powers of Italy, as had been declared by M. Chem! the rights of nations allow to every man, ro live nen
pagny to theCardinal•CaPtarsti by nottof the,3d cur- der that sky which is meet congenial.to him ; pT
rent, the dispatchsef the Aisid Cardinal has beep re- atuningent that.new ollegiaetn nacqaired by the don
ceived, whicle branght the original note of the above, cue of may yottrisiAt kiiii limos Mucks, that Prima,'
Minister. tiv aljesianee cannon ;fail against- the sacred nbliq
" The naii
.rather, after having attentively read gat:ions Ilad=talhalbeh7 she Cardina; ineths Chart&
and considered the said document, has, ordered Car- of OOD, the oaths they take on rem:yin the pit 1 ,
dinal Gabrielli, First Secretary of State, to make and their mince; office of Councillors to the Saves
known to your Excellency his Holiness's sentiments reign Pontiff iii his spiritual concerns; and that, theic..
on its contents, beginning with that which forms the fore, they cannot be torn from his bps on. .
cardinal point among nil the others. Hie; Holiness . o With regard to the cessation of the functions . f
has seen with pain, that even the final proposition the Legate, and to his departure, his Holiness could
therein contained, of the offensive and defensive hardly have expected aliat they would have been at-
league, should be accompanied with the threat ef de- tributed to.the motives assigned in M. Charnpagny's .
priving him of his temporal dominions in case of his note. His Holions will repeat them once more.
non-compliance. If worldly considerations had at all After having.tried every method to rot il his Majesty
influenced the conduct of the Holy Father, he would to hie previous sentiments towards die Papal See, and
from the first have yielded to the wish of his Ma- to concert the desired reparation of so many reiligio s
jesty, and-not have exposed himself to suffer so many innovations ; after having endured, for such a leng h
calamities; but the Holy Father is regulated alone of time, with unsubdued patience, and with unalter-
by the consideration due to his duty and his con- able meekness, so many outrages and insults ; aft r
science : both have prevented him from agreeing to having seen how fruitless were all the remoestxasse a
the federation, and they equally binder him Irons urged against the hostile proceedings of the Frencl. s' -
consenting to the offensive and defensive league, after having peaceably borne the humiliation of in.. • . -.
which differs but in name ; its nature, however, does prisonment ; and seeing these insults, these contempt., - . _
not except any Prince, to whom the Pope, according these violations, increase with every hour, his Hal s •
to the Cir4umstinces of the times, might not become ness found it necessary, though with the deepest r .
en enemy. gret, to determine on the recal of his Legate, in ord r
" His Holiness feels, moreover, that this article, to overthrow at least, in the face of the world, de.
far frasn,improving, detracts from his situation. In false, and scandalous opinion that whatever migl-t
the articles presented to Cardinal de Bayan, the fede- occur, even the most flagrant wrongs, would receive
ration was proposed as alone against heretics and the his tacit consent.
English. But this is couched in general terms, point- " Ili this very rec-al, the precise period of which
ing out no people as an enemy, yet excluding no could not have been anticipated by his Holiness, he
government, no natiop from the contingency at be- protases!, along with those constant affectionate-re-
coming one. If, then, his Holiness declined, from gards which he entertained for his Majesty that
conscientious motives, to be a party to that federa- could he but consent to the demand of the evacuation
tion, so is he equally withheld from this league. The of Rome, and be satisfied with those concessions
Holy Father would not merely bind himself to a de- which are compatible with the duties of his Holiness,
fence, but to an aggression. Then would be seen the the Legate might continue, in conformity with his
Minister of the Coo OF PEACE placing himself in a instructions, to exercise his functions. But his Ma-
state of perpetual warfare ; then would be seen their jesty proved inflexible, and instead of receding a
common father in arms against his c and the single step, preferred the discontinuance of the Le-
Head of the Church exposing himself, by is own
- gation, and the departure of the Pontifical Repre-
act, to a deprivation of his spiritual cennectio with serttative. •
the Catholics el " It isthose Powers against which the league
not, therefore, his Holiness, who by this
siOuld:roalse it imperative on him to act hostilely.—
p?t tetica re .
I • 1 cal of his Le,gate, has declared war
How then can his Holiness shake off his power and hy
avainst the Emperor ; it is the Emperor who chases
natural character, and sacrifice, nissunst be the con- a- . . ~ .
to declare war against nts Holiness ; and not content
jequence, the interest of religion ? _ - : s
with dechiting it,against his temporal Sovereignty,
" His Holiness, unlike other Princes, is invested
he threatens to ruse in his spiritual, a wall of division
wish a two-fold character, namely, of Sovesuien Pou-
r..., betvre_ett the Catholics of France and the Sovereign
Jiff, and of temporal Sovereign, and has gi 'yen
'pealed evidence that he cannot, by virtue *labia se- Pon tot, in the assurance, according to M. Charnpag-
which ryes,note: thet_c_the
_Card) nal Legate harestgesgiitrsendollcl2.
coed qualification, enter upon engagements Church
Would lead to results militating aganut his cult and
n0una1•."1...n., foe. Galilean
most , important office, and injuring the religion of trine in li Intl/gig'.
which he is the. Head, the Propagator, and dle even.; " Hisßolipess has too good an opinion of the il.
ger. His Holiness, therefore, cannot enter into any lustrious Clergy of France to doubt that the Gallican
offensive and defensive leagues;
_which would, by a Church, however jealous of its prerogatives, is pet so
permanent and progressive system, drag him auto attached to the chair of St. Peter, that it will main-
hostilityPe •
which his Ma. taro itself unshaken in its true principles, without as.
against all those powers upon
jesty may_ think proper to make war ; since the Ita- serting rights which it does not and cannot possess;
- lian. States,,,pow dependent upon his Majesty, can nor become schismatic, bystirfatilsg itself from the
never avoid taking part in such wars. His Holiness Catholic unity. . ,
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would con%equeady be nbliged to become a party irt oit is not thin.-the repetitiondkimportant..-it is
:them by virtue of this league. Suchen engagement , not his Holiness who seeks the rupVire. A pacific
_must begis,to be acted upon by the Pope from this Prince; notwithstanding Iresvas obliged to witness the
, moment, and against any Catholic Wince s-ethns :spoliation, in defiance of all right, of his rates of
waging war against him without a motive. Farther` , Benevento .end Ponte. Corso ; notwithstanding his
.it must be-waged against all these powers, whethse „enormeui expellee of maintaining French troops; not.
Catholic or not, who may, upon whatever grounds; :withstanding the usurpation of leis eapitel..-the usur-
„be the enernies of any Itelian Prince. , . ' potion of almost all his soverelen rights; notwith-
' " Thusif the Head of the Church, Accustomed as standing the violent disnsissel of so many spiritual
Ise is to rule his estates in peace, driven in A misspent persons composing hisHolY Senate ; and notwithstan-
.to -21. state of warfare, offensive against hostile powers, ding all the other. acts by which his dignity has been
and defensive of the others. This engagment is too degraded, all that his Holiness did, was to command
reepugnanj to the sacred duties of his Holiness, and his people, when the French army entered Rome, to
see nouriolsus to the Molest of religion, to be entered shew it respect ; all• that his Holiness did was to re-
',lnto by ate Head of that religion. His Holiness ceive it in the most hospitable manner, and implore
seels &ark would be a dereliction of truth to enter of his Majesty, in the mean time, relief fronrso many
into the league ; he would announce, by such a reso- aggravated evils ; and all that his Holiness now does
lution his refusal of any accommodation, any peace in this extremity is, to mourn between the vestibide
with the Emperor, and would even declare hostilities and the altar, invoking the pity of HEAVEN upon his
against him. How could it ever be supposed, that people, and that by a return to better counsels, the
his Holiness should be capable of declaring war most potent grnperor Napoleon will not suffer the
against any power ?'• He has long been enduring the inheritance of the Roman See, given by PROVIDENCZ
most hostile treatment, and is therefore ,prepared to to the Head of the Catholic church in full enjoyment,
endure the threatened loss of his temporal dominions. to be lost and rooted out. _
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,s Thus has his Holiness made war Thus has
he conducted himself to the present hour towards his
Majesty, however distressing and unfortunate has
been the result. Still his Holiness will cherish the
hope that his Majesty, rejecting the councils of the
enemies of the Holy See, who have had recourse to.
every art to change his disposition, will revert to their
farmer friendly correspondence, ant; be satisfied with
the concessions made in the note of 28th January.—
If, by the hidden purposes of the Mesr HIGH, this
should not take place, and his Majesty, regardless of
his own glory, apd deaf to the calls of justice, should
put his ,threats Into execution, and take possession of
the States of the Church by right of conquest, over. -
turning the Government in consequence, his Holiness
will be unable to remedy such fatal occurrences, but
he solemnly declares, that the first will not be a con-
quest, es his Holiness is in peace \yid, all the world,
but will be an usurpation more violent than history
can furnish; and the second will not be the result of
conquest, but of that usurpation, He declares, at the
same time, that it will not be the work of political
genius and Illumination, but an awful visitation of
that Gun from whom all. Sovereignty is derived, and
especially that given to the He' a of the Church.
" Bowing, in that eveet, with profound adoration
to the decrees of Heivex, his Holiness wiil find con.
solution in
reflecting, that thu C KEA TO and REDgigujui
widad these diings, anathat all concurs to accomplish
his purposes when his appointed time arrives,
This is the answer which the Undersigned is
commanded by his Holiness to give to the note of M.
Qbasepagny, and to communicate to your g.Acellen:y.
(Sivva 64 Cardinal GASILIALLI."

ai Hervinis witness of the purity of his Holiness'
intentlimai and the world will judge if it was possible
,to have conceived so extraordinary a scheme. Ar-
&KIT desiring to compromise, and to be in peace
with his Majesty, he manifested, in his note of the
lof January. last, his compliance, as far as it was
Vostibk to comply ; his Majesty, however, does not
practice all those condescensions, which he might prac-.,
tice towards the kloly See ; he persists inflexibly in.
I demanding what his Holiness neither can nor will
accede to, namely, in binding him to a war, and
a perpetual and aggressive war, underthepretenceqf
securing the tranquillity of Italy. • What can Italyr
-have to fear, if his Maars should sat miter into thts
proposed league ? ss, •
_. .:mot r..: t: •
el Surrounded as the Papal EittllltaVate * those
of his Majesty, no rational fear he entertained
but of the ports ; yet his Holiness having offered to
shut them during-the prese.-tt war against the enemies
of France, and to-guard the coast, he thus proposed
to contribute as far as was in his power, without be-
' traying his sacred duties, to the security and tranquil-
lity of Italy. If, in spite of all this, his Majesty !hail
take possession, as he has tlddatened, of the PapaF
Dominions, respected by ale, even the most powerful
monarchy, durisig a space of ten centuries and up-
wards,and shall overturn the Government, his Ho-
liness will be unable to prevent this spoliation, and
can only, in bitter affliction of heart, lament the evil
which his Majesty will commit in the sight of Goa;
misting in whose protection his Holiness will rends it
in perfect tranquillity, enjoying the consciousties, of
not having brought on this dinuier by imprudence or
by obstinecp but to present the independence of