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STANMORE-HILL ESTATE, MIDDLESEX.

Truly Desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, Capital FAMILY
MANSION, with Offices, excellent Gardens, most extensive
Pleasure Grounds, beautifully laid out and wooded, fine
Sheets of Water, Farm House, and Out-buildings, Meadow,
Arable and Wood Land, containing ONE HUNDRED
and FIFTY ACRES, all lying compact.
By Mr. ROBINS,
At Garraway's, on Thursday, June 17, at It, in Lots
AVERY Desirable and Truly Eligible FREE-
HOLD
ESTATE, Land-tax redeemed, most beautifully
situate on an almost unrivalled eminence, Stanmore-hill, com-
manding rich, highly interesting, and varied Views over a vast
extent of Country ; comprising a substantial, well-built FAMILY
MANSION, late the Residence of JAMES FORBES, FA.
of which immediate Possession may be had, planned for the
accommodation of a Family of Distinction, with a Suite of
elegant Apartments, handsomely
.fitted up and communicating
upwards of 100 feet in length, with suitable Bed-chambers,
attached and detached Offices, Coach-houses aid Stables, Farm-
yard, Barn, and other buildings, two substantial Cottages, three
excellent and productive Gardena, fully stocked and cropped, and
planted with the choicest fruit-trees; Hut, Green. and Succession
Houses, Grapery, Pine-pits, &c.; extensive Pleasure-grounds,
laid out with gravelled walks, ornamented by a fine serpentine
Sheet of Water, terminating with a Rustic Bridge, a Temple,
with Grecian portico, Ic,-house, Caves, Grottos, and oilier or-
namental erections The Land Ilia surrounding and contiguous
to the Mansion, eon aining nearly Seventy-five Acres at Meadow
and Wood Land, through which there are most interesting anil
extended walks, &c. A Family Pew in tha Gallery of S:anmore
Church, and Servants' P. w, 6te.

Also the WARREN HOUSE, a very silgihk Prmierty, with
gardens, Plantations, and nearly Sistcen Acres of bleadosv,
Arable, and Wood Land, &c. ca lease to Mr. Scrjeant Selion.
And a Compact lARNI, consisiitig of nearly Fittyseigfit Acres
of excellent Meadow and Arable Land, situate between the
NVoods, in the occupation of Peter Clueterbuck, Esq. on lease.
To he viewed by Tickets (Daly. Particulars may he tad of
Mr. Bishop, on the Prt mise4; at tbe Ahercorn Arms, Si:,ntoure ;
E5,...v Arms, Watford ; await kick merswor th ; King's Arms,
rkharnstead ; V,7oolpack, St. Alban's ; Sugar Loki, Dunstable
Cranes, Edgeware; of Messrs. Cardalo and Soo, 13edfurd-row
at Garraway's; and of Mr. Robins. N 4rwids-street, Golderist
square; where a Plan of the Estate pay 14 MO, and rickets frit
1 riming may be had.

11,7

FHB POPE'S NUNCIO IN SPAIN.

MANIFESTO OF THE SPANISH REGENCY,

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AGAINST THE ARCHBISHOP OF NICRAI TILE POPES NON-
CIO IN SPAIN.

To the Prelates anti Chapters of Spain, the Regency of the
Kingdom.
Upon taking into my, hands the government of the
kingdom, I find myself under the painful necessity of
interfering with a subject equally delicate from its
publicity and transcendent nature, as from the cha:
racter of the persons who were concerned in it. The
Chapter of the Cathedral of Cadiz, with the Capitu-
lar Vicar, and the Ordinary and Military Vicars of
this town, pretending the defence of religion, and a
fear of acting against their own consciences, opposed
themselves to the publication in the Parish Churches
of the Decree and Manifesto of the Cortes, concern-
ing the establishment of the Tribunals for the protec-
tion of the Faith, instead of the lately-abolished In-
quisition. I therefole adopted the most energetic
measures, in order that, whilst those Decrees were
duly enacted, Spain might be preserved from the
convulsions which threatened her at that moment.—

To those measures, equally tending to maintain the
dignity' of the Holy Church and the tranquillity of
the State, we owe the extinction of a flame that
might have consumed the kingdom. But the cir-
cumstance of having desired from the Chapter of this
Church and from some others with whom I had been
in correspondence an authentic copy of their Resolu-
dons and other documents, that we might take such
steps as the justice of the Government and the offen-
ded sovereignty of the Nation called for, led to the
discovery of a fact which greatly increased my sor-
row, both on account of the character of its author,
and the danger to which it had exposed the country..
Among the documents that were laid before us,
there appeared a letter from the most Reverend
Peter Gravina, Archbishop of Nicea, and Nuncio of
his Holiness for Spain, to the Dean and Chapter of
the Cathedral of Malaga (1), dated the sth of March
last, in which he exhorted them to delay, and even
to oppose, the execution of his Majesty's Decrees con-
cerning the Inquisition. The most Reverend Nuncio
appeared, by his signature, to act in that instance
only in his Archiepiscopal character, notwithstanding
that he was protesting against the injury which he
supposed to have been done to•the Holy See, in the
abolition of theinquisition, and the Decree for pro-
mulgating it in the Parish Churches. He also says
'in his letter, that the Bishops now resident in This
town had it in contemplation to; answer to Govern-
ment, that they could not put those decrees into prac-
tice until they had heard the .opinion of their Chap-
ters—at the same time throwing a slur upon those
Bishops, by the intimation, that this was intended as
a mere pretext ; after which he explicitly adds, that
they thus gained time to make all the proper remon-
strances upon the matter. He further states, that
the Chapter of this Church, cede vacante, had declined
to execute the Decree; upon which he exhorts the
Chapter of the Church of Malaga to adopt the op&
nion of all the Prelates, (thus reckoning upon their
disobedience,) and endeavours to persuade them that
by acting according to his advice, they would do an
important service to Religion, to the Church, and to
our most Holy Father, whose authority and rights
he conceived to be vulnerated, without thereby favou-
ring the Episcopal Power. It is also added that he
had thought it his duty to remonstrate (2) in the
name of his Holiness, opposing the execution of such
Decrees, until the Pope had given his consent or ap-
probation ; or, in defect of the Pope, the same were
done by a National Council; and he, finally, closed"
his letter with a promise to communicate to them,
under the greatest secrecy, every circumstance, as it
should take place, which might contribute to regu-
late their conduct for the future.
Copies of letters have been also forwarded to me
by the Rev. Bishop of Jaen (3), and the Chapter of
Granada, red: vacant:, similar to the above.mentioned,
and which, with the same object, and under the same
date, were directed to them by the Most Rev. Nun-
cio. From these it appears, that the said Nuncio,
trampling on the first principles of International Law,
overlooking the boundaries of his public mission, and
abusing the veneration in which this pious people hold
the Legates of the Apostolic See, has endeavoured
to promote, and actually has promoted, under the
cloak of religion, the disobedience of some very re-
spectable Prelates and Ecclesiastical Bodies to the
decrees and orders of the Sovereign Power. If the.
Most Rev. Nuncio had only intended to act as a Le-
gate of the Holy Father, and to avoid any expostu-
lation to which he might conceive himself exposed for
his silence on the present subject, nothing obstructed
his way to me through the medium of the Secretary
of State. I might overlook his avoiding this regular'
and official means of communication, when lie re-
monstrated as he thought proper upon the matter, i
and should have attributed the informality of the cove
duct which he chose to adopt, to inadvertency, or
rather to an excess of confidence. I should have only
paid attention to his arguments, and, with the advice
of the Supreme Congress, taken such resolutions as
the defence of the Holy Church and the temporal
of the State, demanded with one voice from me.
good
of the national cause makes me feel quite
confident that, bad this been the case, I should have
satisfactorily answered the note of the Most Reverend
Nuncio, and that I should have been found equal to
aueet those vague and common-place arguments
which the wisdom of the Most August Congress has
already defeated. His uneasiness would have been
calmed, when he should see that the abolition of the
Inquisition can, by no means, either endanger re-
ligion or injure the rights of the Roman Pontiff; and
that all the fears which he entertains on that account
for the primacy of the Holy Father, and the supreme
authority which he holds in the Church, are most
vain and ungrounded. His qualms would have been
allayed, concerning the impropriety which he seems
to find in the circumstance of declaring to the people
during the celebration of Mass, that a tribunal which
was established, and for three centuries protected by
the Popes, is useless, injurious, and contrary to the
taws of the kingdom.
In fine, he would have seen that the august Con-
gress, in this purely political question, has acted in
virtue of its sovereign authority, without injuring, in
any way whatever, the rights ot the Holy Father, or,
much less, those ot the Catholic Church : so that
they might, either aow or in flume, be in need of the
remonstrances of Nuncios or Councils.
'rivate letters which. under the same date

as the nets mesa written by tha?dost Reverend Arch-
bishop of Nicea, and the fact of his having mentioned
therein that he forwarded a remonstrance to the Go.
vernment upon the wibiect, are circumstances which
clearly prove, that whilst he betrayed the secrecy
which he himself recommended, he aimed not merely
to avoid the charge of negligence in the fulfilment of
his office, but rather to raise in the pious Clergy of
Spain, and by their means in the people at large, a
distrust of the temporal authorities which he thus
strove to decry ; and to check their influence over a.
class of the State, the members of which, by reason
of their conseicuous rank, ought to be true samples
of subordinattoir and obedience.

This unlooked for behaviour of the Most Reverend
Nuncio has compromised the honour of the National
Congress, the security of the kingdom, the authority
of the Episcopal Order, the true rights of the Roman
Pontiff, and the respect which is due to the Church.
He, on the one hand, acknowledges in his note the
authority of the Cones ;—whilst op the other, by
means of a secret correspondence, he spws disaffec-
tion and insubordination amongst the Spanish Clergy.
In the character of a public Envoy he makes appli-,
cation to the Supreme Government, claiming for
redress; whilst, as an individual Prelate; he spreads
private letters tending to the discredit of that very
same Government. When addressing the Regency,
he conjures the zeal of the Ministers of Religion ;
and when speaking to those Ministers, he insults Oat
same religion, by making it:a tool to foment the in-
subordination which it condemns. With the Govern-
ment he assumes the character of a Delegate of the
Holy Father, who is thereby to be supposed incapa-
ble of making an ill use of his mission ;—with the
subjects of that Government he becomes an intriguer,
a secret agent, ready to give them private intelligence
of the progress of that disobedience of which he is the
promoter and fosterer. As a Nuncio of his Holiness,
he affects an eager desire for the Concord of the Em-
pire and the Priesthood: as an Archbishop he strives
to burst asunder the only bonds which keep them
together.
What might not the nation fear from this foreign
Prelate, who, forgetting his dignity and the charac-
ter of his mission, transforms the representative of
the head of the Church into an agent of petty inte-
' rests, very different from those of the primacy of
order and jurisdiction which belongs to his Holiness,
into a kindler of feuds which could end in nothing
but a civil war ? The imagination can hardly en-
I compass the mass of evils to which he has exposed
our afiliced nation, by such an unheard of step.—
The letters imply that he had previous notice of the
resistance which the Chapters and the Vicar of Cadiz
were to make—of the object of those dilatory mea-
sures which the Bishops now resident in this town
had agreed to adopt; as well as of other steps which
were in contemplation, tending to confirm that resist-
ance, and to spread it over the-kingdom. The plan
being one, the interest the same, the measures every
where analogous, it evidently appears that the effects
of the co-operation and support of the Reverend
Nuncio must have been fatal to the Representative
Body, and to the Government on which the nation
reposes its hopes of independence..
The Spanish people are fully aware that the De-
crees of the Cortes have no other scope but the com-
bined support of the Catholic Faith, and the tempo-
ral prosperity of the kingdom. To shake this just
conviction, and blast all the hopes which are grafted
on it, was the object of those letters, and those in.
junctions of secrecy, with which the most Reverend
Nuncio supported the schemes of the Chapter of Ca-
diz. This illustrious personage has, therefore, been
wanting to the rules of his office, to the consideration
due to the National Congress, and to the confidence
with which a Catholic nation has sheltered him in its
bosom—a nation which, now, more than ever, re-
quires the most perfect internal union, if she is to
hope for success in her struggle with tyranny. He
has, besides, done a great injury to the Christian re-
ligion, whose interests he pretends to promote, by in.
ducing the loyal and peaceful Spaniards to disaffec-
tion and resistance. Neither is the offence slight with
regard to the Holy Father, whose disapprobation of
a conduct so openly at variance with the Gospel, is
ensured by his heroic virtues. That man insults the
religious principles of the Pope, who can suppose
him capable of asserting, in a foreign kingdom, the
pretensions of his Court—nay, even his undoubted
rights— by encouraging rebellion amongst the people.
This false step of the most Reverend Nuncio is one
of the greatest evils which the captivity of the Holy
Father has produced to our pious nation : and no-
thing but the special care of PROVIDENCI could pre-
vent its fatal consequences. But such haa\been the
loyalty and obedience of the Bishops and the Chap. 1,
ters of Spain, that they have adopted the apparently
uncivil course of not even answering the Nuncio's
letters.
However, this is not enough to appease my mind.
The flame, which has been quenched so luckily,
might be raised at another time, and they might
grasp at some opportunity of imposing upon the tor.
alty and exalted piety of our nation : and I should
not be worthy of the trust which that nation has re-
posed upon me, if I did not provide against such
danger. What I could not wink at in a Spanish
Bishop, I will not suffer in a foreign Prelate, who so
ill requites the hospitality and generosity of the Spa-
niards. I am ready to excuse the errors of what
some people are willing to call policy ; but I cannot
dissemble to myself that any degree of connivance in
this particular instance would be highly criminal,
both from the injustice of the act and the ruinous
consequences which it might bring upon the country.
I bear in mind the unwearied zeal with which our
Monarchs have defended their own authority against
the pretensions of the Court of Reme. The mere
suspicion that briefs might contain some doctrines or
decrees contrary to the privileges of the Crown, has
been deemed sufficient reason to stop their circulation
until they are examined and approved by Govern-
ment. Whenever any relaxation appeared to glide
in on this point, Government has instantly applied a
steady hand to stop its progress. Our history pre-
sents very awful examples of this kind, which might
have been a warning to the Most Reverend Nuncio.
A Government which has been so jealous of its un-
alienable rights is now doubly bound to take the most
effectual measures against an agent of that same
Court, who, by means of intrigue and underhand
practices, endeavours to promote and organise a re-
ogioui and political schism 2 which might endanger ,

the security, of the State. These reasons have roused
my justice : but, although I conceive myself fully
authorised to exercise it on the Most Rev. Peter Gra.
vista, by ordering him out of Spain, and seizing his
temporalities, I Piave limited myself to command
that the following Royal Decree be transmitted to
him f and this for the reasons expressed therein :

DECREE OF THE REGENCE, ADDRESSED TO THE NUNCIO.

" The Regency of the kingdom expected that your
Excellency, having regard to the public character of
a Legate of his Holiness, with which you are accre-
dited to a nation equally heroic and religious, would
have kept within the limits of that character, for-
bearing to abuse the consideration with which the
Spanish Government has continued to acknowledge
you in an Embassy, the legitimacy of which was
rendered very doubtful by the captivity of the Holy
Father and of our King Ferdinand the Vllth, as well
as from other circumstances. His Highness relied
on the strong motives which might and should have
regulated your private conduct. But he has now
beheld with surprise the steps which your Excellency
has taken on the affair of the Inquisition. When,
on the sth of March, you presented a note to the
President and Supreme Council of Regency, that
very day, as Archbishop of Nicea, you wrote to the
Chapters of Malaga and Granada, and to the Arch-
bishop of Jaen, exhorting them, especially the two
first, to delay, and even refuse their acquiescence in
the Decrees which his Majesty had issued concerning
the establishment of Tribunals for the defence of the
Faith, instead of the abolished Inquisition ; and for
the publication, in the Parish Churches, of a Mani-
festo of the Cortes. Your Excellency was not con-
tented with writing such letters as might, through
:he perversion of public opinion, lead to a schism
upon that delicate and ithportant subject. Your Ex-
cellency had also the boldness to betray that secrecy
which you had recommended in your note, at the
same time that you enjoined it to the Chapters and
Bishop, in order that they might look upon you as
the author of a scheme which tended to stop the exer-
cise of the temporal authorities, and promised them
to transmit intelligence of every circumstance, as it
should take place, which might contribute to regu-
late your combined plans for the future.
a A conduct so contrary to the law of nations—a
conduct by which, overstepping the limits of your
public character, your Excellency has availed your-
self of the immunity which that character enjoys, that
you might, as a foreign Prelate, organise the resist-
ance of those individuals, who, by reason of their
rank, should be true examples of subordination, can-
not be looked on by his Highness with indifference,
much less when you represent that conduct as an im-
portant and indispensable service due to Religion, to
the Church, and to our Most Holy Father, whose
authority and rights, according to the opinion of your
Excellency, are wounded by the Decrees in question,
without their favouring thereby the Episcopal Dig-
nity. His Highness is horror-struck at the conside-
ration of the fital consequences which threatened the
State, and which naturally must have followed the
advice which your Excellency has given, supported
as it is by arguments of such an inflammatorT nature.
But although his office of Guardian of the State and
Defender of Religion fully authorised him to order
you out of these kingdoms, and seize upon your tem-
poralities, his desire of evincing the veneration and
respect which the Spanish Nation has always had for
the sacred person of the Pope, and the fear of now
increasing his sorrows, have dissuaded his Highness
from resorting to that measure.
" His Highness has limited himself to command,
that the disapprobation of your Excellency's conduct
be expressly declared ,• as also, that he expects that
your Excellency will keep in future; within the limits
of your mission, without availing yourself again of
the opportunity which your character of foreign pre-
late affords you to take the same or similar steps ;
but that all your remonstrances will be made to'
Government through the medium of the Secretary
of State; and your Excellency may be sure, that
should you henceforward forget the duties of
your charge, his Highness will find himself in the
painful, though absolute necessity, of exercising his
full power in the execution of those duties which he
swore to fulfil when he accepted the high trust com-
mitted into his hands. GOD preserve, &c.

(Signed)
gg ANTONIO CANO MANUEL.
le To his Lordship the Archbishop of Nicea.
" Cadiz, April 23."

The reasons which have compelled me to this
resolution, and the incontrovertible truths which, as
Protector of the Sacred Laws of the Church, 1 have
pointed out in the Manifesto, make me trust, that the
worthy Prelates of the Spanish Church, and their
respectable Chapters, will contribute, by means of
their authority and sound learning, to the fulfilment
of the gtiod wishes of the Sovereign Congress and
my own, in favour of Religion and the State.
(Signed) L. DE COURSON,
Cardinal

of Scala, Archbishop of Toledo, President.
Cadiz, April 23, 1 iti 3.
LETTERS REFERRED TO IN THE MANIFESTO.
TO THE CHAPTER OF MALAGA.

(I) Most Illustrious Sir—The Manifesto of the Cores, the
Decree addressed to the Bishops for reading it on the three first
following Sundays during high mass, and several others relating
to the abolition of the Inquisition, to which a tribunal is substi-
tuted with the tide of Protector of the Faith, are on the eve of
publication. The Lords Bishops resident in this town, intend to
answer that they dare not rake any step upon such an important
subject, without consulting their Chapters, and so they will gain
time to set forth whatever may be deemed fit upon the subject.
The Chapter of this Church, ittle •acsate, grounded on a petition
of their Vicars, and other reasons which shall be expressed in
their answer, will refuse to execute the Decree. I have deemed
it my duty to make representations in the name of his Holiness,
against the Decrees, unless they are previously consented to, or
approved by the Pope, or in his defect, by a National Council.
I think it necessary to trarstnit this information to you, trusting
that on such an important business you will conform yourselves
with the opit:ion of all the other prelates, doing thereby a gnat
service to religion, to the Church, and to our most Holy Father,
whose authority and rights are vulnerated, according to my opi-.
nion, and that, without favouring the Episcopal authority. All
this, as your prudence will suggest, requires the greatest se:recy ;
and with the same I will communicate to you every circumstance
as it shall take place, that may contribute to direct our proceed
ings for the future.—Goo preserve, &c.
Cadiz, May 5, 1813. P. Archbishop of NIOEA.

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