Star.
London, England, 1816-01-30 00:00:00

PARMA, DECEMBER ISIS.

There has just appeared, from the Imperial preis,
the speech which M. ;heir° Giordani, held at Bo-
logna in July last, on occasion of a few which the
' Cass:no then gave in honour of the return of the
Papal Government. Giordani, formerly a Benedic-
tine Munk, was at that time teacher in a public esta•
blishmenr, which the Papal Delegate afterwards
abolished ; on which Giordani, who is a foreigner,
went to Milan, where he is s.lid to have obtained em-
pleynient.--" My discourse," says the author, in the
i.ar,:duction and dedication to Cardinal Gonsalvi,
" pleased tile rrost, :'sough it offdoded others."—
Ameng the Litter seems to have been the Papal De-
Mtn signore Gcosiiiiiani, for Lind Giordaui
Oinks it necessary to justify himself towards him, 'in
a letter clued 2J August, annexed to the work. The
following are extracts :
Cuacitision art the dedication-20th August,lBls.
s. I do not pretend to be an elontunt, but, however,
a thin and sincere frieuil of the public good. I feel
that in these times of distress, the genius and good-
ness of the powerful are no more sufficient, and that
dig have to arm theinselves with
_ patience andsou-
rage. • Al! !pipe that your E:titmice possesses a mind
strung enough to remedy so mad), evils—to fulfil so
many expectations—to rdaintain so much glory al-
ready acquired. I therefore willingly retrain from
the praise which I would.gladly give your Eminence,
hoping that those who shall undertake to paint to pos-
terity tins distressed age, will write upon the subject
more and beau. than I cad."
'file following from the speech itself:
Alter they the Princes at the CongreSs) had re-
commended moderation and mildness to that Prince
ywhat Prince ?) who, among many examples of mild
ove; nments, shewed himself the, only enemy of civii
liberty, after they had dreaded upon the repose, the
secui sty, and the happiness of Europe, and restored
then Pas well as it could be effected, they turned then
rinds to the consideration of tho virtues, which are
mid must be resplendent in. thcoload of Christendom,
and gave (Diedero) him as the *Mt worthy this best
pin or Italy to govern-.--0 • 0 • • 0. And who can
doUbt of his (the Pope's) judgment and dnesz,
whin 1,11 se. stis-01 bji yOwas proctui4 Nal those

noble, fruitful, agreeable, tor ppulons provinces,
inhabited, not by a rude and ignorant people, but
among the most intelligent and enlightened in
Italy—docile, when they are properly led, difficult.
to deceive, and not easy to be compelled If—
Nog not Battery but truth leads me to repeat it, these
provinces were given to the mere fame of his virtues.
for he had no arms to re.conquer them, and what
availed to demand'them with threats without arms,
or to pronounce vain anathemas against Princes of
so different a faith 1 • • • • • •. There have been
examples that religion has confused the heads of some
Princes, and to the rain of the public interest, given
up to the intrigues of hypocrites a but hew could
religion ever become superstition in its High Priest,
who is most intimately acquainted with it, and the
instructor of all in it ? • • • • •. Twenty-six years
have caught the world the limits of obedience and
authority, or will it be said that be (the Holy Father)
is ignorant of what we and the whole world know,
that the course of human events has brought things
to the point, that he, if not the most excellent, could
not exist at all i" (Che s'egli non e atimo nos pun dare.)
—(44(rnseisse Zoltan, 'January 19.)