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Tliht its done, and the PrintTiiid of tire; UoiviisitY I
besought Morelos to do all that lay in his power to
avoid the effusion of blood. The success of his first
expeditions, owing, in a great measure, to the dispo-
sitnin in which he found the people, and those which'
he undertook successively, and in proportion as his
force augmented, gained him such. reputation, that'
in a short time be obtained the rank of Lieutenant.
General and Captain-General, and finally that of
Generalissimo of the rebel troops, with the supreme,
executive power, and the title f Highness. These
functions and tides he exercised and retained till all
, powers were taken away by the new Congress at
Tladotepec. His ceased among the rest, and he
continued unemployed till he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Supreme Council of Government and Cap-
tain General of the troops, which posts he held when
taken prisoner in the action of Temalaca on the sth
of November last. Being conducted to Mexico, by
order of his Excellency the Viceroy, to be punished
.in the presence of the Authorities, which this rebel
had offended and insulted, he confessed his crimes,
particularly that of having placed himself at the
head of the revolters, with the determination of esta-
blishing the absolute independence of these provinces,
and never acknowledging the King for their Sovereign.
He assigned, as a motive, that if the King should
'reign again in Spain, which wo not to be expected,
it would only be as the creature of Napoleon. The
rest is known. fie published, before he died, a letter
addressed to the Viceroy, in which he confesses and
execrates his errors. His body being claimed by the
clergy, received the honours of sepulture.

ROME, JULY 24.
The Sovereign Pontiff on the 2'2d held a Consistory
in the Quirinal Palace. After a brief allocution, his
Holiness nominated Cardinals of the Holy Roman
Church the Prelates whose names are as follow,
and who already created in the Secret Consistory of
March 8, of the present year, had been reserved
in /alio :
Cardinal Priests—M. Camillo de Simeoni, Bishop
of Satri, born at Beoevenr, December 13, 1737 ; M.
Jean-Baptiste Quarantotii, Secretary to the Sacred
Congregation of the Propaganda, born at Rome,
September 27, 1733; M.`Georges Doria, born at
Rome, November 17, 1772.

Cardinal Deacons—M. Louis Ercolani, born at Fa
lino, October 17, 1755; M. Stanislaw San Severing),
brim at Naples, July 13, 1764.
His Eminence Cardinal Fontana, has notified to all
booksellers throughout the States of his Holiness, that
they are to return an account of their stock of books
on hand.

Political writings, journals, and romances, are se-
verely pruhibited, because it cannot but be known
that this brunch of literature has been very fatal to
religion and authority, by bringing into discussion
the sacred dogmas of out belief, the ceremonies of
wo, ship, and the acts of the Sovereign authority.
JULY 2.s.—Five Cardinals were nominated on the
22d of this month. There have been for two days
illuminaiiiins, bonfires, and music, in the principal
places Gf the Capital.
The heat, which has begun to be excessive, has
induced a great number of strangers to leave us, in
order to travel into different countries of Italy. It is
a loss to this city ; they are going to spend elsewhere
that money which .they used to lay out here, aid
thus deprive the artisan and t:le indigent of a precious
resource under the present circumstances.