The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR AND THE POPE

We give the following from the Joural des D6bats,
without vouching for its accuracy. It is a letter dated
Florence the 18tii ult. :

" The Emperor Nicholas arrived in this city at six
o'clock this morning. He travelled in a caleche with
Count Orloff. The Grand Duke had sent his chamber-
lain to meet the Emperor, and had prepared apartments
for him in the Pitti Palace; but his Majesty, wishing to
preserve a strict incognito, alighted at the Hotel d'ltalie,
which was plac,,cl at his disposal The Grand Duke pre-
sented himself at the hotel at nine o'clock, to pay his res-
pects to the Emperor, who at the moment was sleeping,
and the Grand Duke withdrew without seeing him. Two
hours afterwards the Duke sent his Grand Master of the
Ceremonies to request the Emperor to accept a dinner at
the court, to be followed by a concert. The Emperor
declined all invitations and all honours, but expressed his
desire to dine with the family of the Grand Duke without
ceremony.

" During the day the Emperor proceeded in a hired
carriage, followed by a servant without livery, to pay a
visit to the Grand Duke. He wore the Uniform of a
Hetman of the Cossacks, and was accompanied by Count
Orloff. The Emperor likewise visited Prince Paul of
Wurtemberg, without, however, entering his apartments,
but merely inscribed at the porter's lodge the name of
Count Orloff and that of General Romanoff.
" The two interviews that took place between the So-
vereign Pontiff and the Emperor Nicholas form the prin-
cipal topic of conversation in this city. There is nothing
official known on the subject. it is agreed on all hands,
however, that it was the Sovereign Pontiff who led the
conversation to the subject of religious affairs. His lan-
guage to the Czar was firm, affectionate, and severe, but
profoundly melancholy, and produced, it is raid, a strong
impression o❑ the Emperor Nicholas.--At his first inter-
view the Sovereign Pontiff had on his table two ukases
published by the Emperor, which his Holiness requested
should be revoked. These two ukases not only deprive
the civil power of all intervention with respect to the
jurisdiction of the religious bffairs of the Christian com-
munities in Russia, and invest the Greek Russian clergy
with such jurisdiction, but they confer upon that body the
right, without appeal, of applying the penalties in such
matters, contrary to the ukases of Catherine 11. and the
Emperor Alexander.

" The Sovereign Pontiff, on taking leave of the Empe-
ror, handed him a note, in which were stated all the com-
plaints of the Holy See against the head of the Greek re-
ligion. The Emperor bad requested his Holiness not to
derange himself for the purpose of p lying him a visit ;
and, in fact, the Pope did not visit the Emperor. Cardi-
nals Linibruschini, Bernetti, Acton, and Mezzofanti,
members of the papal government, were the only cardinals
who visited his Imperial Majesty. Cardinal Lambtus-
chir,i had several conferences with the Emperor, and with
Count Nesselrode, his Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Amonzst the Roman prelates, three only—M. Marini,
Governor of Rome ; M. Antonelli, Treasurer ; and M.
Spada-Medici, President of Arms—paid their court to his
Maje,,ty.

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much generosity